Trevor Noah will tour Australia next month. Photo / Getty Images
Comedian Trevor Noah is under fire after footage from a 2013 stand-up special resurfaced, showing the comic making crude and derogatory jokes about Aboriginal women.
The backlash comes one month before South African-born, US Daily Show host Noah, 34, embarks on a full-scale Australian comedy tour.
"There's no such thing
as the most beautiful race. All women of every race can be beautiful," Noah says in the routine, which originally aired in his 2013 stand-up special "It's My Culture".
"And I know some of you are sitting there now going, 'Oh Trevor, yeah, but I've never seen a beautiful Aborigine'. Yeah, but you know what you say? You say 'yet', that's what you say; 'yet'. Because you haven't seen all of them, right?"
"Plus it's not always about looks, maybe Aboriginal women do special things, maybe they'll just like, jump on top of you and be like," he continues, before cupping his hands to his lips and imitating the sound of a didgeridoo. "All women of every race can be beautiful."
