Things are going pretty well for Trevor Noah.

The South African native is settling in as the titular host of the Comedy Central news satire program “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” with a contract extended through 2022.

His growth as Jon Stewart’s successor has been rewarded with the show’s first Emmy Award nomination for Best Variety Talk Series since he took over for Stewart in 2015.

On weekends, Noah travels the world performing his stand-up comedy for thousands of fans.

He’s using his growing power in media — he also has written a New York Times best-seller, 2016’s “Born a Crime” — to help out friend and “Daily Show” co-star Roy Wood Jr. by co-producing Wood’s upcoming comedy show, “Re-Established” with “Boondocks” creator Aaron McGruder.

And in the latest sign of how good life is, Noah comes to Hawaii for a stand-up show Saturday night, having just missed the Central Pacific’s hurricane scare that forced other comedians on their way to Honolulu to reschedule.

Yes, things are going pretty well for Trevor Noah. Almost too well.

One area he wishes he hadn’t done so well in is political prognostication. Before his last visit to Hawaii, in May 2017, Noah was asked what President Donald Trump could do to surprise him.

“I think the thing that would surprise me now is if he became presidential,” Noah told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser four months after Trump’s inauguration. “The only thing that would surprise me is if he started focusing on the job and took the job more seriously than he takes it right now — if he spent more time working on the presidency and less time on his businesses and playing golf.”

Reminded of that quote in a recent telephone conversation from Melbourne, Australia, where he was kicking off a five-show tour Down Under, Noah wished Trump HAD surprised him.

“Sadly … he’s been exactly the president that I thought he would be,” Noah said last week. “The only thing that has shocked me has been how spot-on I was.”

America under Trump has become, if anything, more politically charged. But Noah swears he will stick with his approach of limiting how much his stand-up act revolves around current events.

“I like my act to be only as political as the world I live in,” Noah said, “so yes, I will talk about my beliefs. But I also like to talk about the things that bring us together, so 70 to 80 percent of the rest will be that.”

Noah also assured fans that his material Saturday will be 100 percent different from his last shows here.

“I don’t return (to a city) unless I have all new material,” Noah said. “I write on the road, which is why I have to go on the road. I’m on the road almost every weekend of the year. I also use material that comes to me while writing for the show that maybe doesn’t fit into the show.”

“THE DAILY Show” is the root of all Noah’s other successes. Yes, he was on his way as a stand-up when he joined the show as a “correspondent” in 2014, but the exposure kicked his career into another gear, and next month he has a chance to make history.

The show’s Emmy nomination last month was the first in the category for a show with a black host since “The Chris Rock Show” in 2001, and no show with a black host has ever won.

“The Daily Show” won an Emmy for Best Short Form Variety Series last year for its online “Between the Scenes” featurettes, but Noah is happy with the recognition that comes with the nomination in yet another, larger category. (“Between the Scenes” is nominated again, and the show also added a nom for Outstanding Interactive Program.)

“The great thing,” Noah said, “is that it really recognizes every person who works on the show.”

Among Noah’s competition are “Daily Show” alums Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Samantha Bee. Jimmy Kimmel and James Corden round out the field.

Noah laughed when it was pointed out that many of the nominees have something else in common: Four of the six are immigrants. (Bee is Canadian; Oliver and Corden are from England.) Are they stealing American jobs, as those who want to close America’s borders like to say about immigrants?

“The funny thing is,” Noah said, “when Jon Stewart hosted the show, we had a staff of 100. Now we have a staff of 150, and 99 percent are Americans! So this foreigner increased American jobs!”

Jokes aside, Noah believes that “the house of cards is falling” for Trump and his administration, as the White House sheds staff like a tree sheds leaves in autumn, and many departing staffers have cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections and related matters.

Others have made damning public revelations, and figures such as Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and director of African-American outreach Omarosa Manigault-Newman have “flipped” on Trump.

It’s “like watching this band of thieves turn on each other,” Noah said. “There’s an element of schadenfreude.”

While he watches events unfold, Noah said he keeps perspective. That’s not hard for someone who grew up under apartheid in South Africa.

As bad as he may feel about life under Trump, it’s not as bad as what the 34-year-old saw over the first decade of his life.

“It’s difficult to compare apartheid to any country in the world with a democracy,” Noah said. “You still have free speech, civil rights, equal rights — even if those rights are being curbed with voter suppression.”

Noah sees some hope, he said, as long as the American electorate stands up to Trump in a way the Republican party has thus far refused to do. (“I have been shocked at how willing Republicans have been to shift their ideals to line up with Trump,” Noah said.)

As an example, Noah pointed to the reaction to children being locked in cages at the border this summer.

“The thing that stands out to me about apartheid,” Noah said, “is it was blatant and unashamed. We saw with the episode with kids in cages at the border that (in the United States) there is still some shame.”