{"id":74318,"date":"2025-09-19T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/19\/for-comedians-around-the-world-the-laughs-often-end-as-democracy-fades"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:40:10","slug":"for-comedians-around-the-world-the-laughs-often-end-as-democracy-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74318","title":{"rendered":"For comedians around the world, the laughs often end as democracy fades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel sets US on course similar to that charted by authoritarian regimes from Egypt to India<\/p>\n<p>The exiled Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef has experienced firsthand how intolerant governments can silence political satire. And he had a short message this week for those living in an age of Donald Trump\u2019s free speech clampdown: \u201cMy Fellow American Citizens,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cWelcome to my world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2025\/sep\/18\/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-sparks-shock-fears-for-free-speech-censoring-realtime\">his attacks on the most prominent of American satirists<\/a>, the US president has joined a cadre of illiberal and sensitive leaders around the world who will not tolerate a joke.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/19\/for-comedians-around-the-world-the-laughs-often-end-as-democracy-fades\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel sets US on course similar to that charted by authoritarian regimes from Egypt to IndiaThe exiled Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef has experienced firsthand how intolerant governments can silence political satire. And he had a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1802,71,457,62,419,554,1017,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-culture","category-freedom-of-speech","category-india","category-russia","category-trump-administration","category-turkey","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74319,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74318\/revisions\/74319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}