Trevor Noah's Snake Story Shows Who the Real Man Is | Netflix Is A Joke

Summary

Highlights

• Trevor Noah hilariously recounts a snake performance in Bali, turning fear into comedy through cultural humor 🐍😂.
• During the snake show, a performer gets struck by a cobra, leading to panic and chaos among the crowd 🐍😱.
• Trevor's interaction with a fearless Frenchman adds a layer of cultural humor and highlights attitudes towards fear 🇫🇷😂.
• Pandemonium ensues as the escaped cobra causes the audience to panic, creating a comedic chaos scene 😂🐍.
• Trevor's closing anecdote, mocking a father-son interaction, amusingly highlights differences in parental instincts 👨‍👦🤣.

Key Takeaways

• Trevor Noah has a knack for storytelling, turning a scary snake encounter into a hilarious tale 🐍😂.
• Cultural differences in reacting to fear are humorously highlighted through his interactions with a French family 🇫🇷🤣.
• Noah points out how toxic masculinity doesn't help deal with genuine fears like snakes 🐍🙅‍♂️.
• The comedy of errors escalates when a cobra strikes its charmer, leading to chaotic pandemonium 😱🐍.
• Trevor's comedic insight into a father's protective instincts during the chaos adds depth to the tale 😂👨‍👦.

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Setup Dang Basaan leads the crowd to a surprise performance area at the back of the house.
• 00:30 - 01:00: The Snakes of Bali Introduction In the introduction of 'The Snakes of Bali', Dang Basaan surprises the audience by appearing in a grand Balinese headdress, setting the stage for an authentic Balinese experience. He announces the arrival of the snakes of Bali, catching the audience and possibly the narrator off guard with this surprising turn of events. The scene is set with a group of men handling and preparing to showcase the snakes, to the narrator's visible discomfort and reluctance.
• 03:00 - 04:00: The Python Performer In this chapter titled 'The Python Performer,' a humorous story unfolds where the narrator, a black person, humorously captures his cultural perception of survival upon hearing about a snake. While attending a show, the narrator begins packing his belongings to leave after hearing about snakes, which confuses a French man beside him. The French man questions the narrator's fear and decision to relocate due to a snake, to which the narrator responds affirmatively, emphasizing his cultural inclination towards avoiding dangerous situations.
• 04:00 - 05:00: The Green Mamba Performer In 'The Green Mamba Performer,' the narrator recalls a humorous encounter with someone mocking his fear of snakes. Despite being a big man, he admits his fear of snakes is rational, arguing that having a big brain doesn't mean succumbing to toxic masculinity to prove courage. The situation escalates as the other person expresses disbelief, even involving his son in the conversation. The scenario highlights the narrator's stand against the stereotype that men shouldn't show fear, insisting that common sense prevails over societal expectations.
• 05:00 - 11:00: The King Cobra Performer In 'The King Cobra Performer,' a humorous interaction unfolds between a performer and a child. The child repeatedly exclaims 'Snake, snake!' while the performer, with a French accent mimics him with 'Oui, oui, snake. Are you afraid?'. This exchange goes back and forth for a while, filled with playful taunting and laughter. The performer ends the scene by dismissing the interaction with a joking reference to historical military defeats, emphasizing the light-hearted and comical nature of the encounter.

Trevor Noah's Snake Story Shows Who the Real Man Is | Netflix Is A Joke Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 And Dang Basaan follows the crowd. And he's having a blast. You can tell, you know? He walks out and says, "Everyone have a great time? I know you enjoyed that. Now, it's time for a special surprise. Follow me everybody, to the back." And he takes us to the back of the house, right. Where there's this area they've laid out, where clearly they have some type, some, some sort of performance. There's a stage, there's raked seating. He tells us to find our seats, so we all sit down. And there's people from all over the world in our tour group. Myself, my American friends, some British people. There's a French family. A dad and his son. They sit next to me. So I sit in the front row.
• 00:30 - 01:00 And Dang Basaan comes back out. And all of a sudden, he's wearing like a giant Balinese headdress. Looking really beautiful you know. And he looks at us and he's like, "Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for an authentic Balinese experience? Please welcome the snakes of Bali." I'm like, "The what?" I'm like, "Oh he said snakes." The snakes of Bali-- And I look, and there's snakes. There's a group of men gathering snakes to bring out to us. And so I'm like, "Oh yeah no. No I don't, no."
• 01:00 - 01:30 No because you see as a black person culturally, I'm trying to not die. So... I take all my stuff and start packing it. And the French guy turns to me and he's like, "My friend, where are you going? The show is starting." I said, "Yeah. No, the guy said there's snakes coming, so I'm going to move. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go to the back." He's like, "You are moving because of the snake?" I said, "Yeah." He said, "Why are you moving for the snake my friend? Are you, are you afraid of a snake?" I said, "Uh yeah.
• 01:30 - 02:00 That's exactly what I am, Yeah I'm afraid of the snakes." He's like, "Such a big man, but you are afraid of a snake?" I said, "Uh yeah with a big brain, that's why I'm afraid." It's a snake. Like you're not going to trick me into not being afraid of a snake. Like my toxic masculinity is not so high that I'll be like, "Yeah you know what man, come on Snakey. Come on." It's a snake! Instead of just letting it go, this guy turns. He's like, "I cannot belive it, a big man like this. Jean-Pierre, Jean-Pete..." Turns to his son and is like. "Jean-Pierre..."
• 02:00 - 02:30 And this kid's like "ha, ha, ha!" "Snake. Snake!" And he's like, "Oui, oui, snake. Are you afraid? Snake. What is this? It's a snake. Snake." And these two carry on for like 15 seconds non-stop. Right. Just back and forth. "Snake, snake, snake," the whole time. He's like, "Snake. Are you scared? Snake. Snake. Snake." I'm like, "Whatever man, you guys lost all your wars."
• 02:30 - 03:00 So I go to the back. Right. I don't have time for this. I don't have time for this, because there's snakes. So I go to the back, take all my stuff. And I climb up and I'm sitting at the top, because I want to see the show, I just don't want to be a part of it. Okay? And so uh, so I've got, I've got, I've got my stuff and I move all the way up to the top. And I sit there. As I get there, the show starts. And Dang Basaan's really excited and he's like, "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your first performer, the powerful Python."
• 03:00 - 03:30 And a dude comes out with a giant python wrapped around him. Alright. And this guy had this cool trick where the python would squeeze him really tight. Super tight. So tight, you could almost hear his bones cracking. Alright. And then he'd make a sound. He'd be like... Eeh. And the snake would let go. Then it'd start squeezing him again, and he'd be like... Eeh. And the snake would let go. And it would squeeze him again and he'd make the same sound, he'd be like... Eeh.
• 03:30 - 04:00 And the snake would let go. And I was like, "This is dope. This is cool. Yeah they're in a consensual relationship. I like this. This is uh..." So he leaves with the snake. The next performer comes out, and this guy had a, he had a, he had a green, he had a green mamba with him right? And so, so Dang Basaan is like, "Ladies and gentlemen, the green mamba." This guy comes out and he had a cool trick where he took the lid off the basket and the green mamba would come out and then it would start doing a little move. And then someone would play music and then the snake charmer would dance with the snake. They'd do the same moves, like a Justin Timberlake video,
• 04:00 - 04:30 just the two of them back, back and forth. I was like, "That was dope." The snake goes back in. And then Dang Basaan came outone final time. And he's like, "Now ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for the final part of the show? Please welcome The King Cobra." The final performer comes out with a cobra. Puts the snake down. Lifts the lid, snake comes out. And I don't know what it was about this snake. But you could feel the energy change, like. They were all snakes,
• 04:30 - 05:00 but this snake looked mean. You know? Like it, it looked like it hated life. There was something about it. Like it, it... Like this snake looked like it had a mortgage. Because it looked at us, and then fixed its eyes on the charmer. And he, he was really cool and calm. He didn't even look at the snake. He addressed us. He was like "Ladies and gentlemen. They say the cobra can strike faster than the man can blink.
• 05:00 - 05:30 But can a man move faster than the snake can think?" And I'm like oooh... "I don't know what that means, but I'm in." Because it sounds like a dumb Instagram quote, but I'm in. And this guy had the most amazing trick. What he did was he got right up close to the snake, alright. and he put his hands behind his back. And then, he would make it seem like
• 05:30 - 06:00 he was going to kiss the snake. And the snake will be no further than like a foot from his face. And then he would make this sound like a kissing sound. As he made the sound, the snake would try to bite him, and he'd moved away. I've never seen anything like it. But he leaned in and he's like, "Come on snake." "Too slow snakey. Try again.
• 06:00 - 06:30 No love for you my friend. Come on Snakey." And all of us, all of us are enthralled. Every single one of us. No one's making a sound, no one's moving. And he does it over and over again. And then, to take it to the next level, he closes his eyes, pouts his lips, and I guess at this point, the snake was probably like, "Oh I think I figured this out. This dude's going to make the sound and then he's going to move.
• 06:30 - 07:00 But if I bite before the sound, I can change everyone's lives." Because that's exactly what the snake does. The guy closes his eyes, pouts his lips. Before he can make the sound, the snake strikes him. Pa! Bam! Hits him on the mouth. Right? Cuts his lip open, blood goes spraying everywhere. Now that should be the end of the story, the craziest part of the story. No, this is the middle. The snake hits him on the mouth.
• 07:00 - 07:30 The blood goes spraying. This guy jumps back, and then acts like he didn't just get bitten by a snake. Which makes us think we're crazy, because we all saw it. Everyone in the audience was like "haaw." And then he jumps back, and he goes, he just shakes it off. You know what he did? He did that thing, you know that that thing that people do when they get their hand jammed into a car door or something? Like you know, like it slammed, and there's a "clack". And people will just be like mmm... He did that, but with a snake. So the snake hits him, the blood sprays,
• 07:30 - 08:00 and he jumps back and he's like mmm... "Don't worry. We're fine. Don't worry. Don't worry. Everybody, we're fine. Relax, relax, we are fine. We are fin." But we weren't fine. You know how we know this? Because his face started melting on the one side. Right? So his face starts melting, his lips start turning blue and he goes back to do his kiss trick again, but he can't even stand and he looks at the snake. The snake looks at him, and he's like "Okay, show is done. Goodnight everybody. Goodbye.
• 08:00 - 08:30 "Goodnight." He runs off. And all of us now, all of us are just like, "What the hell just happened?" Right. He runs off. I have questions in my head. Like is he going to be okay? Do we get our money back? How does this work? And then we turn back and we realize. He's forgotten his snake. And you know what the worst thing was? Is it seemed like the snake realized the same thing at the same time.
• 08:30 - 09:00 Because the snake also watched him leave and then as we turned back, the snake was also like, "Oh shit." And so now, it's just us, and the snake. And mind you, there's no, there's no barrier, right. There's no concrete. There's no glass. There's nothing. It's an authentic Balinese experience.
• 09:00 - 09:30 So we're all staring at the snake. The snake is staring at us. And then, one genius decided now would be the perfect time to get an Instagram picture. And I don't know if it was the camera, the sound, or the flash. All I heard was "click," and the snake jumped up and was like, "hiss." And we were all like... "Arghhhh." And then it was chaos. Pandemonium ensued. Now don't forget, I was at the back. So I just jumped. I was like, "Ha-ha, being black saved me!"
• 09:30 - 10:00 I was out. Panic ensued. Everyone jumps up, people are trying to scramble like trampling over each other. The French guy was my favorite, because he jumps up, and he was like, "Sacre bleu!" Le serpent, le serpent! "Allez, Jean-Pierre, allez." And he's pushing the people and running. "Allez! Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre." And when he turns, his son hasn't moved, right? So little Jean-Pierre is planted to the spot, terrified. And you see his face, he's like, "Papa! Papa! Papa!"
• 10:00 - 10:30 He was like, "Jean-Pierre! Allez Jean-Pierre. Allez mon ami." Papa! Papa! And so the dad realizes he's got to go back in and save his kid. Right? But now this is one of those moments where I think you can see the fundamental difference between mothers and fathers. Right? Because a mother, a mother would run in without thinking, and she would be like, "I will die for my child. Strike me now, snake." Right, that's moms. Dads will save their kid, but in the back of their head, you know the dad is thinking, "You know I'm going to save my kid.
• 10:30 - 11:00 But I don't want to die. I mean-- I don't want to die because this dumb ass didn't know to run when his dad was running. I mean, there's a snake and I start running, why wouldn't you run at the same time? Now I've got to die for your dumb ass, which makes no sense, because I can make another one of you, you can't make another one of me. I should just make you a brother and we can mourn your dumb ass death together. I don't even know why we're doing this right now." I think that's what the dad was thinking. Right? Because he didn't fully commit. Instead, he tried to sneak in behind his kid.
• 11:00 - 11:30 And then he grabs the back of his hoodie and yanks him to safety. So now little Jean-Pierre's choking on the ground. Papa! Papa! And he finally gets him to the side. Another snake charmer comes running out, grabs the snake, puts it in the sack, and finally danger is averted. Everybody's safe. Everyone is safe but terrified. Some people are crying, others are in shock. I'm standing on the side, watching all of this. Little Jean-Pierre is with his dad, they both in tears. "Desolé mon ami. Desolé Jean-Pierre"
• 11:30 - 12:00 Papa! And I don't speak French, but I know this kid was like, "You asshole, you left me. I'm going to tell Mom." And so I'm, I'm staring at them, and I guess they could feel that I was staring. So they, they both stopped at the same time. And they turned and looked at me and I looked at them. And in that moment, in that moment I realized
• 12:00 - 12:30 we're all human beings. We all experienced the same thing, we went through the same trauma. No matter what happened to us before, we are all human beings. Because they looked at me, and I could see in their eyes what they'd just experienced, what I experienced. And in that pause I bent down, and I got real close to them and I was like, "Snake."