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Get ready to add Jo Koy to the list of stand-up comedians who’ve made it to the big time of headlining Madison Square Garden. Koy is just one of the 14 acts announced today as headliners for the 2022 New York Comedy Festival, happening Nov. 7-13, 2022, mostly across Manhattan …
Bassem Youssef left a career as a heart surgeon to become a successful comedian in Egypt, with a talk show the likes of Jon Stewart’s the garnered tens of millions of viewers until he had to flee. So flee he did. To Hollywood. The kids at CollegeHumor have some questions …
The Arab Spring helped give rise to political satire that allowed a former heart surgeon to speak to millions throughout Egypt over the past three years. Last week, Egyptians elected former Army General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as their new president with more than 96 percent of the vote. And like …
America has Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Egypt has Dr. Bassem Youssef. Big difference. Especially since the latter nation doesn’t have as much of a sense of humor about political satire, or satire, or jokes of any kind, for that matter. Sunday’s 60 Minutes profiled Youssef, calling …
Jimmy Kimmel raised a glass, and another glass, and another, and another, and another to toast his fellow influencers on TIME magazine’s arbitrary list of who’s who in influencing 2013. With his once and future late-night TV competitor Jimmy Fallon handing him drinks, Kimmel toasted Lena Dunham, Bassem Youssef, Fallon, …
