but bassem youssef refused to be deterred. u the only voice that's not in this syndrome of pleasing the army? >> youssef: let's say that i am not in part of the massive current going in the certain direction to please certain people. >> simon: you can see which way that current is flowing. everywhere, posters of field marshal sisi dominate the landscape. instead of baseball cards, vendors sell sisi cards. pastries adorned with the field marshal's face are sold in shops across cairo. that was too delicious for bassam to resist, so in a skit last october, a baker walks in with a tray full of sisi cakes. at first, bassem isn't interested, but he soon realizes it would better for his health to buy one. "only one?" the baker asks. "you don't like sisi or what?" bassem hesitates. "okay," he says, "give me everything you've got." and the reaction you got was...? >> youssef: people were laughing. but that's the immediate reaction. there's another reaction that we have to deal with it. >> simon: and that reaction came a week later. ther

an estimated 30 million people tune in to see bassem youssef's show. to see him skewer those in power, like the time he made fun of president morsi's outfit during an awards ceremony. ( cheers and applause ) youssef's been called an infidel and traitor, even pulled off tv. >> does satire get you into trouble? >> it doesn't get me into the kind of trouble it gets you into. >> say i want to fly right through this hole in the tree, that little gap. i'm going to bring it down, fly