Call it comic timing: a Daily Show-style fake news show, shot in a
laundry room, posted online in January 2011, days after surging protests
had unseated Egypt’s regime.
“It just exploded. Exploded everywhere. Everyone was watching it,” recalls Bassem Youssef, the Cairo surgeon turned satirist who helmed the show. “I thought I’d have maybe 10,000 views. I ended up having 5 million.”
By episode three, Youssef had scored a TV show, where he would eventually be watched by up to 30 million people as he sent up the country’s media and its new Islamist, and then military leaders.
“It just exploded. Exploded everywhere. Everyone was watching it,” recalls Bassem Youssef, the Cairo surgeon turned satirist who helmed the show. “I thought I’d have maybe 10,000 views. I ended up having 5 million.”
By episode three, Youssef had scored a TV show, where he would eventually be watched by up to 30 million people as he sent up the country’s media and its new Islamist, and then military leaders.
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