Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bassem Youssef, pictured in London last year, has returned to state TV. - Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP Egyptian-American comedian ...

Bassem Youssef is a brave, funny, famous comedian often called the Jon Stewart of Egypt. Famed across the Arab world. He was there in the thick of the Arab Spring, when uprising and hope swept the ...

Australia’s peak Jewish group is urging Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to deny a visa to a prominent comedian who has ...

The Bernie Mac Show creator Larry Wilmore is returning to the family comedy arena with a twist. Wilmore has partnered with comedian Bassem Youssef, known as Jon Stewart of Egypt, for a comedy about a ...

Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef joins us in Cleveland, where he too is covering the Republican convention. His former show was known as “The Daily Show” of the Arab world for its satire of politics ...

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Bassem Youssef has been through a lot. If you aren’t familiar with Youssef, he’s often described as “The Jon Stewart of Egypt,” but that’s more of a convenient shorthand. Youssef created and spent ...

The author of a new memoir and the subject of a documentary, Youssef is currently living in exile in the United States. Now, he's looking for a platform to address an American audience. A lot of ...

The X account of Egyptian-American comedian Bassem Youssef disappeared on Tuesday. The reason for the removal of his account, ...

Bassem Youssef was a successful surgeon in Cairo when he was inspired — thanks to Jon Stewart and The Daily Show — to start his own satirical show on YouTube. Originally broadcast on July 22, 2017.