Trevor Noah burst on to our screens this weekend as The Daily Show’s newest contributor. Source: Supplied

In a brilliant skit with host Jon Stewart, the South African revealed he had been cautious about visiting “under-developed” America.

He tells the presenter his fear of the police since his arrival made him “nostalgic for the old days” in his post-apartheid home country.

And he turns the tables on the US over Ebola, commenting that he had stood up to friends who told him not to visit the disease-ridden United States.

“I said, ‘Just because they’ve had a few cases of Ebola doesn't mean we should cut off travel there, that would be ignorant,’” he adds.

His sharp satire won him a host of new fans, who loved his take-down of inequality and hypocrisy in the Western world.

At one point, Stewart asks: “You’re not saying things in Africa are better than they are in America, are you?”

Noah says he is not, but Americans are.

He plays a clip in which an American admits that the US incarcerates more African-Americans as a percentage than apartheid South Africa did, and that the wealth gap between the median white and black family is greater, at 18-fold.

Noah’s unique brand of comedy will be a regular feature on the satirical show. Source: Supplied

“Here’s the amazing part,” says Noah. “For South Africa to achieve that kind of black-white wealth gap we had to construct an entire apartheid state, denying blacks the right to vote or own property.

“But you did it without even trying. We trained for decades and you just waltzed in and won the gold medal.”

Daily Show viewers were instantly impressed with Noah’s deadpan delivery and cutting social commentary.

“Glad it’s funny, cause the facts are really sad,” tweeted one user.

“Excellent video on misconceptions about Africa,” said another, while one called Noah “perfection”.

Yes, the truth can hurt, and it seems Noah is really going to stick the knife in.

“Africa’s worried about you guys,” his edgy debut segment concludes.

“You know what African mothers tell their children every day? ‘Be grateful for what you have, because there are fat children starving in Mississippi.’”