People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.
Bassem YoussefEverybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.
Bassem YoussefSatire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.
Bassem YoussefI always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.
Bassem YoussefThe 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.
Bassem YoussefPeople went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.
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