
An Interview with Kambiz Hosseini, Iranian Political Satirist
“The only way I can stay alive is to make it into comedy.”
“The only way I can stay alive is to make it into comedy.”
I kept asking myself as I was developing: “Why is this my work?”
“You almost can’t overstate how important YouTube is in how young people get their political information.”
“I play a lot of squash, I drink a lot of coffee. That’s a good start.”
“[Misinformation] is a societal problem and it needs a societal-wide solution.”
“I am extremely focused these days, in my own thoughts, on the importance of empathy and perspective.”
[Redistribution] isn’t what people want or need, they actually need and want to work, to be productive contributors in society, to be able to support their own families and communities.
I never feel like I’m an advocate of something. That means you’ve relinquished some of your journalistic capacity to be critical.