black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

Bassem Youssef

People 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.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Country Government Sarcasm
I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting – spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Insulting Islam Rumor
By the way, I follow the American elections, and I have never seen someone who is that offensive. I have seen people who are stupid. But stupid and offensive, that’s new.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Himself New Offensive Stupid Support Worry
The 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 YOUSSEF

Disappoint Trying Worst
I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Country Military Religious
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

Limit People Roles
People say, ‘Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?’ and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

People Today Tone
It doesn’t matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the – in Egypt. So we became very good in that.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Egypt Eye Running
It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and ’60s style of propaganda.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Depressing People Style
The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

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

Believe Order People
What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom – protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime – plain and simple.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Doctors Jobs Simple
Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Cinema Country East Mean Middle
And of course there were clashes there because people, they tried to remove those protesters from Tahrir. And I was, like, doing my job as a doctor treating them.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Clash Course Doctor Protester Remove Treating
I 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 YOUSSEF

Event People Struggle
I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It’s a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.
BASSEM YOUSSEF

Egypt Office Thinking

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bassem Youssef Quotes