Bassem Youssef
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3 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Bassem Youssef’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Daily Show: Ears Edition · TDS Time Machine | Arab American Heritage Month · 27 Apr 2025
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And you don't get sued every five seconds.
Well, the 18 days of the revolution was incredible because you would go to Tahrir. you see what's happening. You come back, you open the TV, and it's a totally different world. It's amazing. And you know what? It's happening again now. It's like all these rumors about like aliens coming down and trying. They are the people who are driving the revolution and the Freemasons.
It's his evil twin.
And there's a guy who's spreading sort of conspiracy stuff? He's a little bit kind of cloned everywhere. Oh, really? Yes. Even in sports programs. Imagine Glenn Beck actually doing a sports show, and that's what you'll get. That was a foul because...
Yes.
And Hamas. Oh, really? And them too? And Iran. Ah. All these people. Can you imagine Israel, Hamas, Iran, Israel, and America are actually all unified.
Yes, against Egypt.
The problem is that, like, people want to believe. They want to believe, but, like, when you have the media kind of pounding on them with all these conspiracies, you will find people that will fall for that. I mean, for example, you have, what's his name, Kramer, like, Mad Money? Yes, yes, yes. People still watch him. I mean, the guy kind of, like, bankrupted the whole country.
And still people watch his show.
Yes, because it has been extremely funny and hilarious to watch the media right now. I mean, back in Egypt, it's the same. We're not very much different.
It's in Armani. Look at you. Very sharp. I had to pay for it. He gets his for free.
Well, the thing is, every day, every minute of the day in a married life is a negotiation. Everything can blow up into a full-scale war, starting from a simple sentence like, good morning, what should we do with the kids today? What should we do with that piece of furniture? Any sentence can lead you to heaven or to hell at the same time. So you do negotiate with terrorists. Oh yeah, yeah, 100%.
If I'm allowed to use a curse word, I was like... As many as possible. I was like, oh shit. Part of my stand-up comedy is I describe a situation where I was in a restaurant with producers and there was a bombing two blocks away in Chelsea, New York in 2016. And of course, this is the like, damn, what's gonna happen to us now? And there's like two different reactions.
There's the white reaction, which is like, oh my God, I hope nobody is hurt. This is terrible. I hope everybody's okay. And there's the Arab reaction. What's his name? What is his name? What is the name? Because you know what's gonna come. I was scared what's gonna really happen in that area. And it's like, oh my God, it's gonna be horrible. And the way that it was reported,
I didn't know how to handle this. So I basically, I went into hiding for a few days, three, four days. And I talked about Piers Morgan team talking to me two times, three times. I was like, no, I can't, how can I, you defend that? How can you defend the rape, the decapitated babies and whatever? And then I started kind of looking in the news a little bit.
And then I started seeing people coming on the shows and saying things that I know as an Arab, as a Muslim, as someone from that region, that it's not true. But I didn't know what to say, how to say it. So I said, by the third time when they asked me, I said, like, fine, put me on. And I went there. It was more of a, figuratively speaking, a suicide mission. Because it's a lose-lose situation.
I can lose stuff in Hollywood. I can, I even, I remember my managers like, Bessim, be careful. I mean, are you sure you want to do it? My managers was like, please don't do it. Please don't do it. And on the other side, if I don't perform well, whatever well means, I'm gonna be rejected by my own people.
So it was a lose-lose situation, because whatever I say, it will never be enough, and whatever I say will not be good enough. And I was going into there, and I felt that I was going into a trance for the 33 minutes that I was on that interview for the first time. You blacked out. I blacked out. I blacked out. And a lot of people ask me, is the earpiece, was that a bit...
when the earpiece kept falling it's like no it was really falling off and it disconnected and i had to save it because i cannot see them all i can hear i can just hear them and i could expect it at any time okay by some thank you i was like i i was fighting for every second to say words to put stuff in there yeah for people who don't know this is your conversation interview with pierce morgan
First of all, I don't want to say it's just my wife's family because my wife's family has always been there. But this time was different. The bombing, the attack, they're usually one of those people that they're away of everything. Whatever happened in Gaza, they are always in safe places. But this time, it seems that there was no place safe. And already we heard about like two or three of the...
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