Bassem Youssef: 'Comedians don’t have solutions but we must ask questions about Israel' – BBC Africa

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Bassem Youssef: 'Comedians don’t have solutions but we must ask questions about Israel' – BBC Africa


Comedian and political satirist, Bassem Youssef, speaks to the BBC’s Sharihan Al-Akhras about the role of comedy during times of war.

He also talks about managing insecurities and his relationship with social media. The interview was filmed as he embarks on his “Middle Beast” tour of the UK.

Produced by Kawoon Khamoosh and Anusha…

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  1. Ugliness:- events that challenge our values and, in truth, the very idea of a viable value system stalks human society like a shadow in the sun. The past two hundred years alone has seen the following sources of that existential despair:

    – the near-extermination of the indigenous peoples of two of the Earth's four fully inhabited continents;

    – King Leopold's mountain of severed hands in the Belgian Congo;

    – the sheer waste of life in the trench warfare of WW1;

    – Nazi death squads and death camps;

    – the man-made firestorms of Hamburg and Dresden;

    – Hiroshima and Nagasaki;

    – the Nakba of 1948;

    – the American bombing of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia;

    – the Rwandan genocide;

    – ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia;

    – the fabricated 2003 Iraq War and its aftermath; and

    – the new low in America's imperial geo-political games of shamelessly spending Ukrainian lives to buy Russian deaths.

    That list is, necessarily, only from one cultural perspective and – even on that basis – is not exhaustive. The Human world, then, has ALWAYS been a truly ugly place.

    Who then could have guessed that it was possible for it to become SO MUCH UGLIER in just the six months since October 2023?

  2. Ask away Hassan, just so long as you are willing to awnser questions on Hamas and Palestinians then cool. Sadly the latter doesn't come to fruition…how about awnsering about Shani Louc….as a starter