Trevor Noah criticizes Neil deGrasse Tyson's panned tweet: 'First of all, timing'

Like his fellow late night colleagues, the mass shootings in in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, were on the mind of "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah.

In a NSFW clip shared to the Comedy Central program's YouTube channel, Noah brought up Neil deGrasse Tyson's "really insensitive" tweet, which resulted in backlash and an apology from the astrophysicist.

"People were so angry that he was trending," Noah told his audience. "Like, if you’re trending and there's been two mass shootings, like, you (expletive) up."

Tyson made waves on the social media site Sunday with his post about the tragedies.

"In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings," Tyson wrote, before saying, "on average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… 500 to Medical errors 300 to the Flu 250 to Suicide 200 to Car Accidents 40 to Homicide via Handgun."

"Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data," he added.

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"I get what he was trying to do, like, he was trying to be, like, science-y in that moment," Noah said, "but first of all, timing. Do you know what I mean? At a funeral is not a time to tell the people that the guy owed you money, that's not the time. Let's start with that, but secondly, I feel like it fundamentally missed the, I guess, the human element of what people are fighting for in America, and that is trying."

"Trying is the thing," he emphasized.

(Note: This clip is NSFW due to language.)

Noah, illustrating his point with car accidents, said: "We ban dangerous cars... To get a car, you need a license. You need to go through a process, because we just want to minimize the chance of a person dying in a car."

The "Born a Crime" author also cited sobriety checkpoints and speed bumps as efforts to maintain road safety. "Speed bumps is literally just going like, 'Alright, we don’t know why people go fast on this road, we don't know how they go fast… we don’t know. What we do know is we’re going to put a speed bump on the road, just to make it harder to go fast. That's all we're gonna do.'"

Noah then poked fun at those who "run to the extremes."

"They'll be like, 'Oh, after 9/11, 3,000 people died, America didn't ban airplanes,'" the comedian said. "Yeah, but they locked that (expletive) up hard."

Bringing up the TSA, he joked, "Like too much saliva, and they tell you, 'Too much liquid. Go back. Spit that (expletive) out!' "

"You're not saying get rid of guns, you’re saying try to minimize the chances of this happening," Noah said, making a call for stricter gun control. "Try to make it as hard as possible for people to own a gun, because you only want people who are willing to work hard to own a gun, to own a gun. You only want people who respect the gun to own a gun."

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Tyson recognized that his message missed the mark, reflecting on its interpretation posted to Facebook Monday.

"My intent was to offer objectively true information that might help shape conversations and reactions to preventable ways we die," his note read. "Where I miscalculated was that I genuinely believed the Tweet would be helpful to anyone trying to save lives in America. What I learned from the range of reactions is that for many people, some information –-my Tweet in particular -- can be true but unhelpful, especially at a time when many people are either still in shock, or trying to heal – or both.

"So if you are one of those people, I apologize for not knowing in advance what effect my Tweet could have on you," he continued. "I am therefore thankful for the candor and depth of critical reactions shared in my Twitter feed. As an educator, I personally value knowing with precision and accuracy what reaction anything that I say (or write) will instill in my audience, and I got this one wrong."

Contributing: Hannah Yasharoff

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Neil deGrasse Tyson tweet: Trevor Noah criticizes 'insensitive' post