Egyptian-American comedian has been criticised for jokes and commentary about Israel and PalestineThe Egyptian-American comedian Bassem Youssef has announced his imminent Australian tour has been postponed after he was asked to provide background check…
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Bassem Youssef left a career as a heart surgeon to become a successful comedian in Egypt, with a talk show the likes of Jon Stewart’s the garnered tens of millions of viewers until he had to flee. So flee he did. To Hollywood. The kids at CollegeHumor have some questions about all of this. Roll […]
Continue ReadingBassem Youssef and Larry Wilmore are teaming up for a new comedy at ABC. Variety reports that the network has put into development an untitled single-cam comedy written and executive produced by Youssef and Wilmore about a Middle Eastern American family with superpowers. Here’s the logline: The untitled series centers on the Sharif family, an ordinary […]
Continue ReadingBassem Youssef has been through a lot. If you aren’t familiar with Youssef, he’s often described as “The Jon Stewart of Egypt,” but that’s more of a convenient shorthand. Youssef created and spent three years hosting the enormously successful Egyptian television show Al Bernameg, a show whose title simply translates as The Show. Al Bernameg […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee heads to the bunker to chat with Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef — AKA “the Egyptian Samantha Bee,” according to Samantha Bee — about his experience hosting a satirical political news show that ultimately got him exiled from his country for mocking the dictators in […]
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