I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.

The way that things happen in Egypt, the government - or the head of the government - don't get personally involved. They were always goonies and agents and people who do that kind of work for the government either by direct instructions or because they think that they're doing something good or they want to be on the good side of the government.

I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.