On this day in 2022, I was in the audience during the filming of Trevor Noah’s I Wish You Would special. It was filmed in Toronto, and I want to tell you about one moment that didn’t make it into the final cut.
as it happened, the filming of the special was on Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It was only the second time it had been a national holiday.
Near the end of the show, Noah talked about going around in Toronto, and how he loved seeing all the orange shirts. And he referenced growing up in apartheid South Africa, a country that famously had to come to grips with its history.
And I will never forget how he said, “There can be truth. There can be reconciliation.”
I guess that this didn’t make it into the special, because it was a bit of local knowledge that might not have made a lot of sense to audiences outside Canada, but he said more, he said it eloquently, and it made me feel optimistic. And optimism is a feeling I miss sometimes.
