Coming Soon: Remade in America with Bassem Youssef
Remade in America with Bassem Youssef
CAFE
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2018
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Join Bassem Youssef, formerly an Egyptian satirical talk show host often called the "Jon Stewart of Egypt" who recently arrived in the United States, as he explores being an outsider in America and figuring out what it means to belong.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Basimusive here. I am from Egypt. Seven years ago I was a heart surgeon, until everything changed. |
| 0:08.0 | The Arab Spring happened, protesters took to the streets, demanded that our dictator resign and he did |
| 0:16.0 | My contribution to all of this |
| 0:18.0 | I made some funny YouTube videos in my laundry room |
| 0:20.0 | and then a TV station called me up and before I knew it I was the |
| 0:25.2 | host of a satirical talk show so every week I would make fun of the people in |
| 0:29.6 | charge of my country and pretty soon 40 million people tuned in every episode. The best part |
| 0:36.6 | people started calling me the John Stewart of Egypt. Crazy right? I did my show under both military and Islamic regimes and I would soon |
| 0:46.5 | discover that both of them have one thing in common. They don't have a sense of humor. |
| 0:54.3 | You might have heard of Basim Yusuf, the Arab world's most well-known satirist. As the host of an |
| 1:00.1 | Egyptian comedy show, he pilloried the ruling elite elite that is until he had to flee his own country |
| 1:07.7 | I was worried for my family's safety so I left Egypt and here I am. |
| 1:14.0 | A new country and new lifestyle. |
| 1:19.0 | So many things to understand. |
| 1:21.0 | Just like you, I'm trying to figure out how to belong in America. So I thought I would ask some people about it. |
| 1:27.0 | Politicians, athletes, entertainers, or just regular people with interesting stories and I decided to record our |
| 1:34.2 | conversations and make a podcast for you. Cafe is presenting the show |
| 1:39.7 | produced by Neon Hum Media so subscribe right now wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Bessimusef, talk to you soon. |
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