Trevor Noah

Son of Patricia includes Noah’s account of meeting Barack Obama, a useful example of building an encounter through anticipation, imagined expectations and a final conversational turn. His changes of voice help separate the participants while preserving the narrator’s point of view. Begin with that routine, then follow the wider special for the movement between travel, family and cultural observation. The storytelling appeal lies in how he makes a situation easy to picture before changing the audience’s sense of what its most important detail will be.