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He joked recently that Barack Obama was the coolest president ever.
"He plays basketball, he tells jokes, he smokes," said Trevor Noah. "It's like if the president were black." 
And he was outraged when Donald Trump edged higher in the presidential polling.
"Before this election started, Hillary Clinton was one of the most popular public officials in the country. Now she's losing to an overcooked sweet potato. How the hell did this happen?"
Now the host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is heading to Australia.
The South African comic heads the line-up for the Just For Laughs comedy festival at the Sydney Opera House and will also perform in Melbourne.
Also on the bill are British comic Alan Carr, host of Alan Carr Chatty Man, and American comic and political activist Margaret Cho.
Noah, who took over the Daily Show from Jon Stewart in 2015, had a sold-out run at the Opera House two years ago. That followed an earlier successful run for his one-man show, The Racist, at Edinburgh Festival in 2012.
He is the subject of the documentary You Laugh But It's True, about his blossoming career in post-apartheid South Africa.
Noah recently debuted a one-hour stand-up special, Trevor Noah: Lost in Translation, which shared his view of such subjects as terrorism, racial tensions, being African and travelling into the US during the Ebola crisis.
After performing at 130 theatres around Britain and Ireland, recording his third stand-up DVD along the way, Carr brings a new show to Australia called Yap, Yap, Yap!
Over 100 episodes Alan Carr: Chatty Man has featured such guests as Lady Gaga, Adele, Robin Williams, Miley Cyrus and Robbie Williams. He has also written the autobiography Look Who It Is.
Cho, who has been nominated three times for Grammy Awards for best comedy album, has also had two shows debut Off-Broadway - I'm the One That I Want and The Sensuous Woman.
As well as regularly selling out comedy shows, she has been active in anti-bullying and gay rights campaigns.
Noah performs at the Opera House on   August 28 with the festival running from   September 6 to 11, and at Melbourne's Palais Theatre on   August 31.