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Remade in America with Bassem Youssef

Don't Play a Terrorist and Other Lessons from Maz Jobrani

Remade in America with Bassem Youssef

CAFE

Society & Culture, Egypt, Immigration, Jon Stewart, Comedy, Muslim, News, Muslim Americans, Immigrants, Muslim Ban

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Maz Jobrani is a comedian, actor, and immigrant from Iran. He talks with Bassem about becoming an entertainer over his parents' protests, dealing with typecasting in Hollywood, and raising his own children.

Do you have a question for Bassem? Tweet them at @Byoussef with the hashtag #askbassem, email remade@cafe.com, or call 785-422-7736 (785-4-BASSEM) and leave Bassem a voicemail.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello friends, my name is Bessimusif.

0:02.8

Welcome to the first episode of my new show,

0:05.6

Remade in America, presented by,

0:08.1

Cafe.

0:09.2

Before we get started, a little bit about me.

0:18.0

My story begins in Egypt, where I lived until I was 40 years old. I was a regular guy. I was married, I worked as a heart surgeon,

0:22.0

you know, a regular dude but my plan had always been

0:26.2

to move to America but then something strange happened Egyptians my people took to the streets to tell our military dictator Hosni Mubarak to leave.

0:38.0

Streets were flooded with tens of thousands of angry people all demanding a change here. of

0:43.0

thousands of angry people all demanding a change here in Egypt.

0:46.0

You see in Egypt we don't have impeachments, we don't have Congress,

0:50.0

and we don't have democracy.

0:52.0

So a revolution was the only thing that could make him go.

0:55.0

And a few weeks later, he did.

0:58.0

How nice of him.

1:00.0

Now I didn't take to the streets but I did contribute in my own way. I made short

1:07.8

videos about Egypt's revolution.

1:09.3

What do you know what I do?

1:11.3

I don't know if it's not like it was like that I was like that. I made the videos because of the I made the law and the clue and I should tell you all my

1:15.7

was my own and I made the videos because

1:18.0

they were brainwashing the masses.

1:20.6

My videos got a lot of views. So many views that the TV station invited me to turn my

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