If you watch The Daily Show, you’ll be aware that Jon Stewart’s counterpart in Egypt, Bassem Youssef, had a hard time with the authorities for the crime of making jokes.
After Youssef was released, he visited The Daily Show in the US.
Now Stewart has returned the favour and visited Youssef’s show. He even speaks a bit of Arabic.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
