Bassem Youssef

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda…

— Bassem Youssef

People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA…

— Bassem Youssef

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism,…

— Bassem Youssef

Donald Trump is not stupid. He knows exactly what he's saying. And he's just saying out there - I mean, forget about…

— Bassem Youssef

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

— Bassem Youssef

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence…

— Bassem Youssef

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

— Bassem Youssef

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just,…

— Bassem Youssef

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

— Bassem Youssef

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it…

— Bassem Youssef

“With Sissi, he was not the elephant in the room, he was the elephant and the room. As”

— Bassem Youssef

“In the two years since I left Egypt, things haven’t gotten better. Thousands of people have been incarcerated for the most trivial…

— Bassem Youssef

What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom - protesting, singing, chanting, calling for…

— Bassem Youssef

I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public…

— Bassem Youssef

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God…

— Bassem Youssef

“Normal people began to see that a beard was not synonymous with honesty. It was simply a patchy place to hide one's…

— Bassem Youssef

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself…

— Bassem Youssef

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of…

— Bassem Youssef

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually…

— Bassem Youssef

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke…

— Bassem Youssef

“An authoritatrian regime, whether military or religious, doesn't want diversity. Having masses of people who think the same. talk the same, and…

— Bassem Youssef

I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of…

— Bassem Youssef

“Those who called themselves liberals proved later that being well dressed, eloquent, and standing up against Islamist fascism doesn’t really mean you…

— Bassem Youssef

The way that things happen in Egypt, the government - or the head of the government - don't get personally involved. They…

— Bassem Youssef

I don't care about Donald Trump himself. I care and I worry about the very big base that supports him because this…

— Bassem Youssef