Trevor Noah Is Beside Himself With Glee That Sarah Palin Is Back In American Politics

Much like a Toyota Yaris crashing through the wall of a Red Rooster, Sarah Palin came crashing back into public life a few days ago when she officially endorsed Donald Trump for President. At a Trump rally in Iowa, Palin gave a rambling, nonsensical, extremely loud speech that featured a ringing endorsement of Trump as Commander-in-Chief, a vigorous attack on establishment politics, and a tenuous grasp of human speech patterns.

Seriously, though. Unless you actually go and watch the speech, it’s almost impossible to grasp Sarah Palin’s style of talking. She sounds like she’s twelve different songs all buffering at once.

Back in 2008 when Palin was last in the public eye, Trevor Noah was a humble stand-up comic in Johannesburg, doing routines at jazz clubs. Jon Stewart was so firmly ensconced in the Daily Show chair it seemed like he’d never leave, and he feasted on the 2008 election with an eagerness that was almost scary. Palin inspired some of his best material from the time.

Now the world’s turned. Stewart’s gone, but Palin is somehow still here, even if only for a moment. It fell to Noah to handle her sudden, bird-into-a-window re-entrance into politics, and he did it with a fresh-faced glee that almost acts as an antidote to the deep weariness everyone else feels on having to deal with Sarah Palin again.

“It’s like she’s a malfunctioning robot!” We thought it was funny back in 2008 too, buddy. Now we’re just tired. You’ll get yours.