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It's Judy's Show with Judy Gold

294: Bassem Youssef (Part II)

It's Judy's Show with Judy Gold

Judy Gold

Comedy

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Bassem's show takes off and receives the ultimate validation. Unfortunately, the climate changes quickly and he's forced to escape to America, which may of may not have been in better shape! It's the fascinating conclusion to Judy's conversation with the great Bassem Youssef! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So it goes from the laundry room to a fucking studio, and I have to say, your staff, I mean,

0:29.3

I've worked on a lot of TV shows. All right, not a lot. I'm actually like an asshole. I've

0:33.5

worked on a number of television shows. The camaraderie, the feeling of family, you know,

0:40.4

the show always takes on the personality of the star, you know, and I've done so many shows where

0:45.9

like this person is full of themselves and it's so obvious you can tell because the staff is like

0:52.7

nervous or scared or look like it was family. Was that the way it was? I mean, it comes from like

1:03.4

the how when I started to kind of assemble the team. So I didn't know anything about television.

1:08.5

So we started to interview people. So when I got my TV show, what I did was trying to

1:14.0

hire people with experience. So I hired people with experience and I fired them all after one

1:19.6

because they didn't have it in them to try to do something new. They wanted to do something

1:25.6

the same way. Yeah. And I didn't like that. So I wanted to come and so whenever I come and I

1:32.0

wanted to make them watch John Stewart, watch the Colbert report. This is how this is what I want

1:37.3

the show to be like. And they were like, they were like, we want to do the same thing. So I fired

1:43.6

all of them and I hired people who had absolutely no experience in media. I had I hired fresh

1:50.2

graduates, people in college, people who were engineers and lawyers and people who, but they had a

1:55.5

good sense of humor and they were more aware about what it is like to do a political satire show.

2:00.7

Right. And I hired all of you. So all of us were newbies. So we're all of these people that kind of

2:05.7

like coming. So great. I knew I knew nothing about television and they knew nothing about

2:10.4

television. But all we had was one thing is passion. We had passion about doing something new.

2:15.9

And it was a trial and error every week, a trial and every every show, every episode. And it

2:21.7

was wonderful because we wanted, we wanted to create something that we would like to watch.

2:27.2

So that's so brilliant. That is so brilliant. It was like, no, we're doing something new,

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