Bassem Youssef's Piers Morgan Appearance

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes the “Egyptian Jon Stewart” Bassem Youssef to the podcast. A decade ago Youssef was a key figure in the Egyptian Revolution, hosting a satirical comedy show throughout it. But more recently Youssef garnered attention for his international viral appearance on Pier Morgan Uncensored. Youssef discusses how he approached the news segment as a piece of comedy and what satire can or cannot do. Bassem is on tour now. Head to www.bassemyoussef.xyz/upcoming-shows for dates. The Good One TV show, starring Mike Birbiglia, is premiering on March 26, on Peacock! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this episode of Good One comes from the Wondery Podcast Wicky Hole.
0:05.0	You know what a wicky hole is.
0:06.0	We've all been there.
0:07.0	You look up a certain celebrity, see how tall they are, and whether they've said anything
0:10.7	cringe about vaccines.
0:12.6	Before you know it, you're 10 minutes into reading about something called a toast
0:16.3	sandwich.
0:17.5	That's basically what it's like to listen to Wicky Hole, only funnier.
0:20.8	Every episode is a new rabbit hole to explore with host Darcy Cardin and her favorite
0:25.1	comedian friends loaded with unforgettable new information you'll literally never need to know.
0:30.6	And that's why it's great.
0:32.0	Follow wickyhole on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcast.
0:36.0	You can list a Wigyhole ad free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcast. Hello and welcome to Good One a Podcast About Jokes. I'm your host
0:58.1	Jesse David Fox. Each episode the guest comes on to play a clip with one of their
1:02.1	jokes and discusses how and why they came up with it.
1:05.0	First, some exciting good one news.
1:08.0	We made a TV show. We made a TV special. We, uh, for the last, almost as long as we've been working on the show. We've been developing a
1:16.9	TV version with Seth Myers and his production company and it's coming out on March 26th on Peacock and it is this
1:27.3	podcast if this podcast was a documentary you know same idea it's telling a comedian story through their jokes.
1:34.0	And I could not be more excited, thrilled, pumped that the special will be focusing on
1:40.3	microbiglia, getting back on the road after filming his last special.
1:44.6	If you like this podcast, it is that in TV show form and I'm so excited for you to see it.
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