6.06.2011

Cairo: Egypt's Daily Show

Aroused by the chaos and change of the Egyptian revolution, Bassem Youssef made mock Arabic newscasts of the event for YouTube, a tribute to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. The result? A production deal with Egypt's ONTV, 88,000 Facebook likes and 4 million YouTube uploads. Not bad for a civic-minded surgeon. Watch Television

Photo: Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times

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