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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Bassem Youssef: Egypt's Jon Stewart on Palestine, the press and Piers Morgan

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In 2011 Bassem Youssef was a little-known heart surgeon in Cairo. A year later, he was hosting his own political satire TV show, Al-Bernameg, drawing in 30 million weekly viewers as he made fun of the Egyptian regime. Bassem's comedy was groundbreaking but it proved too controversial to remain on air. In 2014 he was forced to move to United States, where he has since had to work to re-establish his career in a new language. Now, he's back in the news thanks to an explosive interview with Piers Morgan on the conflict in Gaza, which went viral.

Tickets for his latest tour, The Middle Beast, are available at livenation.co.uk

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0:48.3

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived exclusively to let me spend

0:53.9

more time than I'd ever get on

0:55.3

the radio with interesting people. And, well, this week's guest does need some introduction,

1:00.7

Batham Youssef, but less introduction than you would have needed last September, for example,

1:06.5

because you are an American citizen now, but an Egyptian comedian and TV host.

1:12.2

You don't want to be an activist.

1:14.2

Reading your life story, it seems to be a recurring theme.

1:16.8

You don't want to be a political activist, but you keep kind of becoming a political activist.

1:21.4

Get dragged into it.

1:22.4

Yes, with every new situation.

1:24.4

And then for the benefits of British viewers and listeners, I suppose we

1:30.3

should begin with the thing that brought you to most of their attention, which would be

1:34.3

an appearance. So, I mean, considering it's a television show that's widely regarded to have

1:38.5

failed by every conceivable measure, the Pierce Morgan television program was rather

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