How a Heart Surgeon Named Bassem Youssef Beca...

This week we’re joined by OBGYN Shieva Ghofrany who is here to talk to us about abortion, her new organization Tribe Called V, and to tell us why having Persian parents is the key to being successful, because if you’re not, they’ll kill you! Get key nutrients–without the B.S. Rit ...  Show more

This week we’re joined by leading publicist Danny Deraney who is here to talk to us about how to use PR to grow your brand, the craziest PR stunts he’s been involved in including Sharknado, and how if your father speaks French, it doesn’t mean that he is French! 

My HoneyDew this week is Egyptian comedian, writer, producer, surgeon, and television host, Bassem Youssef! Bassem hosted El-Bernameg (The Show), a satirical news program, from 2011 to 2014. The press has compared Bassem with Jon Stewart. Bassem Highlights Lowlights about going f ...  Show more

This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes the “Egyptian Jon Stewart” Bassem Youssef to the podcast. A decade ago Youssef was a key figure in the Egyptian Revolution, hosting a satirical comedy show throughout it. But more recently Youssef garnered attention for his int ...  Show more

Egypt’s top satirist Bassem Youssef and acclaimed American comic Maz Jobrani join comedy duo Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini to take on the world's headlines. This week, what do immigrants in the US really think of Donald Trump? Why are Egyptian performers being censored on Tik ...  Show more

In 2011 Bassem Youssef was a little-known heart surgeon in Cairo. A year later, he was hosting his own political satire TV show, Al-Bernameg, drawing in 30 million weekly viewers as he made fun of the Egyptian regime. Bassem's comedy was groundbreaking but it proved too controver ...  Show more