How did Trevor Noah make his US$100 million net worth? After his gig at Comedy Central’s The Daily Show came Netflix stand-up comedy specials, bestselling memoir Born a Crime and a Hollywood film deal

• The Emmy award winner and Grammy host is now one of the highest-grossing comedians in the world … but he was already making big bucks in his home country of South Africa
• Lupita Nyong’o will play his mother Patricia in the upcoming film adaptation of Born a Crime that explores his life as a mixed-race kid during apartheid