Jon Stewart of Egypt

In March 2011 he started his sarcastic show on You Tube. He started by making fun of the previous president at the time (Mubarak) and he kept showing people how ruined and corrupted the government was in a really funny way. He started his own show (The Show) in September 2011 and he was going with the Egyptians step-by-step as the country was being reshaped and would say what people in charge hated to hear and no one else had the courage to say.

In 2014, after a suspension and a network change, the show was taken off air. After Morsi was removed in a military coup, it became clear that Youssef would not go easy on the new leader, former general Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; some of the supposedly liberal Egyptian viewers who’d applauded him when he’d mocked Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood suddenly changed their tune. Then, after he was booted from the airwaves, he and his production company were fined for breach of contract and 50 million Egyptian pounds (about $6.5 million) were demanded from each. Youssef did not have the money; he fled the country shortly afterward, landing first in Dubai and eventually in the United States, where he currently resides.