{"id":3719,"date":"2021-01-10T20:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:24:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:24:17","slug":"trevor-noah-gb-not-so-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Noah: GB not so great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain is not so great, any more. This short video was posted on&nbsp;2015.8.04, when he joked about his entry to UK to do his comedy show.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trevor Noah - Great Britain not so great\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ADQCeC0tF0o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His conversation with the border agent is amusing.<\/p>\n<p>He opened with, <sup>0:24&nbsp;<\/sup>&#8220;every time I come, I feel it&#8217;s harder and harder to come into this country &#8230; the border is very strict. &#8230; Lots of questions. &nbsp;&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;How long are you going to be here for?&#8221;<br \/>\nFour days.<br \/>\n&#8220;What are you doing?&#8221;<br \/>\nA comedy show.<br \/>\n&#8220;Are you a comedian?&#8221;<br \/>\nYes.<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh &#8230; You don&#8217;t look funny. Do you have any joke?&#8221;<br \/>\nI checked my luggage.<br \/>\n&#8220;I need to know the address where you&#8217;re performing.&#8221;<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know the address.<br \/>\n&#8220;Then I can&#8217;t let you in.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou got to believe me I won&#8217;t lie about that. I&#8217;m just doing the show then I&#8217;m leaving.<br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t know you&#8217;ll gonna leave.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230; absolutely &#8230; as if everyone wants to come and stay in the UK. I almost wanted to say, not as great as you thing. &nbsp;&#8230; Then he said something very true:<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230; I can&#8217;t just believe what you say what you&#8217;ll be doing. You could be doing something else.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230; That&#8217;s great attitude, &#8230; that we should have in Africa when the British first came.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain is not so great, any more. This short video was posted on&nbsp;2015.8.04, when he joked about his entry to UK to do his&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=3719\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trevor Noah: GB not so great<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[89,99],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trade-war","tag-movies-tv-","tag-uk--","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}