Trevor Noah on using the N-word: ‘Just stop saying it or just be racist’

Trevor Noah on Joe Rogan’s N-word controversy: ‘Here’s a life hack for white people: saying the actual N-word puts you in unnecessary trouble, especially if you’re not racist. It doesn’t matter the context.’ Photograph: YouTube

Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah waded into the controversy surrounding the podcast host Joe Rogan on Monday evening, after the musician India Arie announced she would remove her music from Spotify, which has a lucrative deal with Rogan, because she objected to Rogan’s “language around race”. Arie also published a compilation of Rogan – who was under fire last week for coronavirus misinformation on his podcast, prompting musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell to pull their catalogues from Spotify – saying the N-word on his podcast.