Trevor Noah recently announced he was leaving The Daily Show after seven years of hosting. His departure for greener pastures coincides with Kanye West s increasingly troubling series of antisemitic remarks , however, which Noah addressed Friday.

The South Africa-born comedian, who previously criticized Wests behavior toward ex-wife Kim Kardashian , was asked during a Q&A session why he was beefing with Ye. Noah said hes never beefed with him and has been concerned about Kanye West all along.

What I have beef with is us as a society not coming together around the person and going like, Hey, maybe this is not the moment to put a microphone in your face so that you just go off saying everything, Noah said regarding Wests string of recent interviews.

West, who legally changed his name to Ye last year , recently spoke with Tucker Carlson and Chris Cuomo and alleged that he was being targeted by Jews . This led Gap, Vogue and Balenciaga to cut ties with West , who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016.

If somebody says to me that they have a mental health issue, and they say to everyone that when they dont take their medication theyre unable to control themselves, and then everyone ignores when that person is having an episode andthey platform the personI sometimes think its a little shitty, said Noah.

Noah said in March that what Kardashian was going through was terrifying, and that it shines a spotlight on what many women endure when choosing to leave a man. West called him a koon in a since-deleted Instagram post, spurring their alleged beef.

I still love him despite the shit that he talks, Noah said Friday. But Ive promised myself Ill never be the person who just sits by and gleefully says things about people that I care about and then also joins the group of mourners afterward and acts like I wasnt part of it.

Noah added he grew up loving this man and that very few have shifted the paradigm in music and fashion like West. He said he still listens to College Dropout and loves Wests sense of humor, but despises the voyeurism of a society ogling at a troubled celebrity.

Too many people like to mourn you when youre dead, and they dont say anything to you when youre alive, said Noah. So I dont know where to end. But thats it.