Yes, Trevor Noah wrote some dumb tweets. Forgive him for it.

Attacking the new host of The Daily Show on the basis of a half-dozen old tweets misunderstands both comedy and Twitter

You have to give the internet's outrage cycle credit in one respect: it's remarkably efficient. Just a day after 31-year-old South African comedian Trevor Noah was named the new host of The Daily Show, internet sleuths — also known as "people who have time to comb through nearly 9,000 tweets made over the past six years" — uncovered a half-dozen tweets that have been labeled "controversial" or "offensive" by a wide variety of websites. For the record:

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Scott Meslow

Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.