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Saudi standup comedian Omar Hussein explains his approach to comedy during Google's Big Tent event April 26, 2013 at the W Hotel in Washington, DC. Lending some comic relief to the seminar, Saudi standup comedian Omar Hussein, whose mock Arabic news program on YouTube -- styled on Jon Stewart's 'The Daily Show' in the United States -- attracts a million views per episode.'The only difference is that we cannot talk about politics. Or religion. Or sex,' said Hussein, 26, the American-born son of Saudi expats whose resume includes a stint as an engineer in a baby diaper factory.
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I was on ‘The Daily Show’ and there was this Web site that wanted to criticize me, saying, ‘How could she be on the cover of Maxim and be on this smart show?’ So I did the cover of Maxim again. Because, you know what? Don’t you want for your own daughters to grow up and be smart and funny and beautiful and embrace their sexuality?
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