The Daily Show host Trevor Noah has attempted to explain his controversial joke about Indigenous women, which sparked outrage after a video of him making the derogatory comment surfaced.
"Women of every race can be beautiful," Noah said in the 2013 clip.
"And I know some of you are sitting there now going, 'Oh Trevor... I've never seen a beautiful Aborigine.' But you know what you say? You say, 'Yet.' Because you haven't seen all of them, right?"
In July, former NRL star Joe Williams shared the video on Twitter and called on Noah to apologise.
In a sit-down interview with community radio station 98.9 FM's show Women Called Black, which aired on Friday, host Angelina Hurley told Noah that there are "really offensive terms" which suggest Indigneous woman "aren't necessarily desirable or attractive but good for something else".
The South African comedian tried to shed light on his remarks but fell short of apologising.
"My intention was to try and create a world where I said all women are beautiful, stop putting one group above another," he said.
"When I first told that joke, the context of the joke - which a lot of people have cut out because of expediency on the internet, headlines and clickbait - was I was reading a headline in South Africa.
"And the headline basically said, 'White people are the most attractive people,' and then went down the rankings where they said these people aren't attractive and these people aren't attractive because of this.
"Obviously people were angry about it. I was one of those people. But for me, it was less the anger and more the illogic of the arguments. I am genuinely a comedian because I find too many things funny - things other people wouldn't - and I use humour to process things that would otherwise be painful to me."
Noah's appearance on the radio show comes during his five-date tour of Australia.
