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Before posing for this adorably pensive portrait (not pictured: standard issue New Balances), Adam Scott, 44, had never been photographed by a woman for a major magazine. Seriously. First, as part of Glamour‘s second-annual “Powered by Women” initiative, we fixed that. And then we called up the brainy funnyman for a tour of his beautiful mind. Turns out he’s dreamier than we could have ever imagined.

GLAMOUR: Ghosted, your new buddy comedy series with Craig Robinson, loves to put you in awkward situations. Why do you think you’re so comfortable playing the punch line?

ADAM SCOTT: I guess I’ve always felt kind of weird. I went through a long and fruitful overweight-awkward stage, and I got teased. I had a taste—well, more than a taste—I was kind of living in that space for a while. That’s the kind of thing that shapes you.

GLAMOUR: You and Craig have an unbelievable physical comedy dynamic. What’s it like to be the little dude in the little dude-big dude paradigm?

AS: Craig is such a sweet guy, but when you look at Craig and me from the outside, there couldn’t be two more different-looking people. The writers have fun trying to subvert that and play with it.

GLAMOUR: So do you toss all the “buff guy gets girl” scripts out the window?

AS: Oh, I gave up on trying to get those parts 20 years ago. I auditioned for every nineties flick, but it never happened for me. I think I auditioned for all the *Screams*, actually, and didn’t get any of them. And there are a lot of those movies.

GLAMOUR: Wait, you went out for Skeet Ulrich’s role in Scream?

AS: That must have been it. That had to be it. I think it was.

GLAMOUR: As someone who was 12 when Scream came out, this is a big reveal. It doesn’t matter, though, because you went on to play Amy Poehler’s love interest on five seasons of Parks and Recreation, which led to more than one fangirl listicle. Is it cool being a hipster-nerd sex icon now?

AS: When that stuff first started happening, I was hyperaware of it. But as it continued, I grew more and more weary of it. I can only imagine if I’d had any success when I was 19 or 20. That would have surely gone to my head.

GLAMOUR: What was it about Ed, Reese Witherspoon’s hopelessly devoted husband on Big Little Lies, that
made you want to play him?

AS: He genuinely loved Madeline. And he was determined to clear the way for her. He’s there to protect her and keep her safe, which makes him feel safe. They end up finding their way on the show, which is nice. But yeah, it obviously wasn’t the healthiest relationship.

GLAMOUR: I’ve got to ask: What exactly are you doing right now? It’s awfully noisy where you are.…

AS: I’ll tell you what I’m doing! I have to get to work, and I am the last one in the house, so I have to put the dog in the kitchen. Then we have this, like, smoothie delivery service, so I’m putting a bunch of them in the freezer for my wife. I am also trying to set the alarm so I can get out of here.

GLAMOUR: I always joke that men can’t multitask, but here you are, a renaissance man.

AS: Exactly. [Laughs.] Please put that in the article.

GLAMOUR: Of course! Okay, time for a truly loaded question: “Fuck, Marry, Kill” with Madeline McKinsey, Leslie Knope, and Party Down‘s Casey Klein.

AS: Oh, boy, that’s dangerous territory. Okay, so I think any sane person would marry Leslie Knope, right?

GLAMOUR: Absolutely.

AS: I feel like Casey Klein would just be heartbreak. And we saw what kinda trouble Madeline brings. I don’t want to kill any of them, though. The other two I am just going to leave up in the air and it could be, like, interchangeable.

Ghosted premieres on Fox October 1.

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There are moments in pop culture that you remember in terms of “Where were you when…?” Where were you when you watched Oprah declare “I love bread!” or Game of Thrones’ “Red Wedding”? I’m adding one: Where were you when you discovered Trevor Noah? I was a 27-year-old aspiring stand-up comic watching The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in my PJs in 2012; the South African comedian was making his U.S. debut. I thought, Who is this café au lait king who’s also hilarious? He was, to the tune of Sisqó’s “Thong Song,” “dun-duh-duh-dun” hot. But in his short set, Noah also displayed charm, presence, and damn good writing. (Of his black South African mother and white Swiss father getting together during apartheid, he joked: “My mom was like ‘Woo, I don’t care, I want a white man! Woo!’ She was crazy. And my dad was like, ‘Well, you know how the Swiss love chocolate.’ ”)

It’s no surprise to me that today the 33-year-old is writing New York Times best-selling books (Born a Crime), headlining stand-up specials (Afraid of the Dark), and making The Daily Show his own with his smart international take on America’s political dramas. We had never met prior to my visit to his office, but we instantly shared an energy that’s common among comics offstage, quieter and contemplative. Noah makes you feel hopeful that everything will be OK. His optimism might be his X-factor.

PHOEBE ROBINSON: I’ve been following your career, and to me, you seem like a feminist. Is that fair to say?

TREVOR NOAH: Yeah. Without a doubt, that’s because of my mom. My aunt, grandmother. Most of my teachers were female in school. I grew up in a world where authority was female. [But] I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I had this skewed idea of feminist: I thought it meant being a woman who hates men. When I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists, I was like, “Oh, this is what my mom taught me. This is simple. I don’t understand why everybody is not this.”

PHOEBE:Two years into The Daily Show, how are you feeling?

TREVOR: Post, let’s say, Donald Trump’s nomination or presidency, I found an easier way to synthesize my voice into the show.

PHOEBE: How do you view the way Americans are responding to President Trump? Do you think it’s an overreaction at all?

TREVOR: I don’t think it’s an overreaction. America is dealing with the effects of an underreaction to Donald Trump when he was running and when he was Mr. Saying-Racist-Things-on-the-News.

PHOEBE: If you could get an honest answer, what would you ask him?

TREVOR: “How much money would you want [in order] to leave the presidency?” Because I think he would have a number, strangely enough. Then we’d know how much to launch the Kickstarter for.

PHOEBE: It would be funded so fast. [Laughs.] I enjoy your interview style—you have a level of empathy, even if you don’t agree with a person. How did you decide to go the humanity-first route?

TREVOR: The most important part of conversation in Africa is the greeting. In Zulu, there’s Sawubona: “I see you.” When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, “What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?”

PHOEBE: This reminds me of your interview after the election with Tomi Lahren [then a conservative host for The Blaze]. Some people were upset you had her as a guest. What’s your takeaway?

TREVOR: I don’t think there’s anything I would have done differently. I invited Tomi because she was part of the white millennial vote that went with Donald Trump. Some people got stuck on “Why would you legitimize her?” Just because you don’t know about it in your bubble does not mean it’s not legitimate already.

PHOEBE: You represent a point of view that hasn’t been seen on late night. How do you feel like you’ve changed the dialogue?

TREVOR: There’s an advantage in looking at the world and talking through ideas that aren’t talked about anywhere else in the same way. The misconception has been: Is it a black show, or is it The Daily Show? Why can’t The Daily Show be hosted by a black person and have black people working on it? It doesn’t have to be either-or.

PHOEBE: Was having a diverse cast a mission, or did it just happen?

TREVOR: If you have a room that has 12 of the same person, you are bound to get 12 of the same jokes. I never thought of the diverse cast members as a mission. I just want original people—a person who is really funny and who makes me say, “I’ve never heard that before.”

PHOEBE: What do you hope for America, and yourself, in the future?

TREVOR: I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I’m happy.

Phoebe Robinson is the New York Times best-selling author of You Can’t Touch My Hair and cohost of the podcast 2 Dope Queens, which will become a series of HBO specials in 2018.

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