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Mid-East Peace: Jon Stewart Appears in Cairo on Egyptian Counterpart’s TV Show

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Jon Stewart appeared last night on Bassem Youseff’s TV show in Cairo, Egypt. This may actually bring peace to the middle East. An American Jewish TV host on an Arab show. The audience, which clearly knows Stewart from cable and the internet, was ecstatic. The two discussed many political subjects and were also extremely funny. Bassem explained that Cairo’s extreme traffic is “our first line of defense.” It’s worth watching the whole show to the end because there’s a cute capper. Stewart is on his 12 week break from The Daily Show so can he direct his movie, “Rosewater” starring Gael Garcia Bernal as Maziar Bahari.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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