Daily Show invites South African comedian to give his first impression of America - It's not pretty

Trevor Noah

On host Jon Stewart invited on South African Trevor Noah to give Americans his outsider's view of how things are going in the United States. Luckily for us, Noah is a comedian because if we weren't laughing, we'd have to cry.

Stewart introduces Noah as 's newest contributor, and while it appears that this will be a good fit, Noah admits that he was hesitant to come to a country with a reputation as bad as America's.

Stewart: I know that you flew in, I guess, yesterday from South Africa.

Noah: Yeah, I just flew in and boy are my arms tired.

The audience laughs and Stewart gives him props for the cheesy joke, but it becomes clear that Noah had something altogether different in mind. Raising his hands in a "Hands up, don't shoot" gesture," Noah adds, "No, seriously, I've been holding my arms like this since I got here."

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And then there is Ebola. While many Americans may believe that since Noah is from "Africa" he should be more worried about Ebola over there than in the United States, the comedian points out that South Africa hasn't had a single case of Ebola and the nearest outbreak is over 4,000 miles away.

Meanwhile, the United States has had several people contract the disease here and a few people have even died in American hospitals. But don't you worry, Americans, Noah isn't saying that countries should cut off travel to the United States. He strongly opposes the idea that airports should stop allowing people from America to travel just because of a few cases. After all, a plan like that would be pretty heartless.

After further illustrating the point that a lot of what Americans think about Africa (usually negative) and how they view themselves (as Sean Hannity likes to say, "the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth") are notions that aren't remotely accurate, Noah wraps up the segment with a devastating indictment of the American system that is too powerful to give away. Watch the clip - and please laugh or you just might cry.