Bassem Youssef spoke in a TV interview, his first televised appearance in Egypt since November when the private station CBC suspended his show after the season’s first episode, which was highly critical of the military and the nationalist fervor gripping the nation after a popularly backed coup that ousted Islamist leader Mohammed Mursi.
The station said the satirist had violated its editorial policy and contractual obligations, and that he upset Egyptians sensibilities by attacking “symbols of the state.”
Government and presidential officials at the time said the decision was a private issue between Youssef and the station.
Youssef, whose show called “The Program” mirrored Stewart’s “The Daily Show” although it was weekly, said he truly believes the military-backed government’s denials that it did not order the suspension but added that “at the end of the day, the regime doesn’t look very nice.”
Watch the Interview here:
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