# Making Fun of Dictators **URL:** **By** Bassem Youseff, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell **Published:** March 19, 2021 --- Bassem Youseff, the Jon Stewart of Egypt, joins the show to discuss the state of political satire. ## Shownotes: Bassem Youseff joins the show to talk about his experience hosting the show, El-Bernameg (_The Show_), a satirical news program in Egypt, from 2011 to 2014. Youseff is often described as the Egyptian Jon Stewart because his program garnered over 40 million viewers. In 2013, _Time_ named Youseff one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Why are dictators humorless? Do you think that America has a healthy political satire climate? What caused the Arab Spring?