A comedian from South Africa uses humor as an antidote to South Africa's modern ills and racist past. NPR's Charlayne Hunter-Gault has the story.

According to Broadway World-South Africa, Meg Robbins and Hannah Rafkin, who both graduated as English majors in 2017, met as first-year film students, “and realizing they share a birthday, they soon ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – "There are white men who didn't benefit from apartheid. They are called albinos." The audience shrieks with laughter at Chester Missing, a comic puppet who styles himself ...

JOHANNESBURG — In a Johannesburg bar with peeling velvet wallpaper and a grimy carpet, a new generation of South African comedians line up dozens of borrowed wooden chairs to turn the dance ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Meet the newest contributor to The Daily Show, a South African stand-up comedian who cheekily strolls out on stage to the tune of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian from South Africa who has contributed to "The Daily Show" a handful of times during the past year, will become Jon Stewart's ...

When “The Daily Show” tapped South African comic Trevor Noah to take over hosting duties from Jon Stewart earlier this year, it simply confirmed what many on the continent already knew ...

Comedians help South Africa laugh at its brutal past. ... The audience shrieks with laughter at Chester Missing, a comic puppet who styles himself South Africa’s “hottest political analyst”.