Just a few weeks ago, the immensely popular host of the weekly ElBernameg predicted he would be called in to the public prosecutor’s office to answer a growing pile of legal complaints against Youssef ...

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 ...

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

CAIRO Bassem Youssef was once a heart surgeon but now makes jokes for a living. The serious libel charges that the comedian faces, however, are no laughing matter; Egypt's public prosecutor has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.