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Bassem Youssef: Can laughter ever provoke political change?

During the Arab Spring, Bassem Youssef's mockery of Egypt’s leaders won him millions of fans. But after the military coup he fled to the US and has reinvented his comedy career.

Stephen Sackur is in New York for a special edition of the programme with Egyptian American satirist Bassem Youssef. During the Arab Spring, his mockery of Egypt’s leaders won him millions of fans, but after the military took over he fled to the US where he has reinvented his comedy career. Can laughter ever provoke political change?

(Photo: Bassem Youssef, comedian and political satirist)

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