{"id":113695,"date":"2017-08-24T00:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=113695"},"modified":"2017-08-24T00:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:30:51","slug":"trevor-noah-among-nominees-for-thurber-humour-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/24\/trevor-noah-among-nominees-for-thurber-humour-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Noah among nominees for Thurber humour prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113696\" style=\"width: 1365px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/19092729_10155405333107453_3443761282834937955_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113696\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/19092729_10155405333107453_3443761282834937955_o.jpg\" alt=\"Previous winners include Noah's (pictured) &quot;Daily Show&quot; predecessor Jon Stewart, Calvin Trillin and David Sedaris. (Photo: Trevor Noah\/Facebook)\" width=\"1365\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/19092729_10155405333107453_3443761282834937955_o.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/19092729_10155405333107453_3443761282834937955_o-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/19092729_10155405333107453_3443761282834937955_o-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/19092729_10155405333107453_3443761282834937955_o-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Previous winners include Noah&#8217;s (pictured) &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; predecessor Jon Stewart, Calvin Trillin and David Sedaris. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialTrevorNoah\/photos\/a.462236777452.256139.65639912452\/10155405333107453\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialTrevorNoah\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Noah\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014Trevor Noah is upholding a \u201cDaily Show\u201d tradition: He&#8217;s a nominee for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.<\/p>\n<p>The Comedy Central host&#8217;s memoir \u201cBorn a Crime\u201d was among three finalists prize officials announced Wednesday. The other nominees for the $5,000 honour are playwright-screenwriter Ken Pisani&#8217;s novel \u201cAmp&#8217;d\u201d and Aaron Thier&#8217;s time travelling novel \u201cMr. Eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners include Noah&#8217;s \u201cDaily Show\u201d predecessor Jon Stewart, Calvin Trillin and David Sedaris.<\/p>\n<p>Because all three nominees this year are men, the winner will uphold another tradition: Only once since the award was established in 1997 has a woman received it. Julie Schumacher won in 2015 for \u201cDear Committee Members.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Trevor Noah is upholding a \u201cDaily Show\u201d tradition: He&#8217;s a nominee for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":113696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}