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Bassem Youssef

lines on the record: 204
first: 2024-04-05
most recent: 2024-04-05
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“But I don't know what to say, how to say it. So I said, by the third time when they asked me, I said, like, fine, put me on. And I went there, it was more of a figuratively speaking, a suicide mission, because it's a lose-lose situation. I can lose stuff in Hollywood. I remember my magistrates like Bessim, be careful. I mean, are you sure you want to do it? My manager was like, please don't do it. Please don't do it. And on the other side, if I don't perform well, whatever well means, I'm going to be rejected by my own people. So it was a lose-lose situation because whatever I say, it will never be enough. And whatever I say will not be good enough. And I was going into there and I felt that I was going into a trance for the 33 minutes that I was on that interview for the first time.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't know how to handle this. So I basically went into hiding for a few days, three, four days. And I talked about Piers Morgan team talking to me two times, three times. I was like, no, I can't. How can I defend that? How can you defend the rape, the decapitated babies and whatever? And then I started kind of looking and then used a little bit. And then I started seeing people coming on the shows and saying things that I know as an Arab, as a Muslim, as someone from that region that it's not true.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I select oh shit part of my stand up comedy is I describe a situation where I was in a restaurant with producers and there was a bombing two blocks away in Chelsea New York in 2016 And of course, this is like, damn, what's going to happen to us now? And there's like two different reactions. There's like the white reaction, which is like, oh my God, I hope nobody has heard this is terrible. I hope everybody is okay. And there's the Arab reaction. What's his name? What's his name? What is the name? Because I was scared what's going to really happen in that area. And it's like, oh my God, it's going to be horrible. And the way that it was reported.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the thing is, every day, every minute of the day in a married life is a negotiation. Everything can blow up into a full-scale war, starting from a simple sentence like good morning. What should we do with the kids today? What should we do with that piece of furniture? Any sentence can lead you to heaven or to hell at the same time.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source