i found myself hosting the biggest show in the middle east and then having to leave all of that behind and come to reinvent myself and start all over again in a country that is not mine, performing to an audience that's not mine, with a language that's my second language. so i'm kind of like, i'm in a place now that i'm kind of like looking forward instead of looking back. well, i'm sad to say i'm going to make you look back a little bit before we look forward. i want to look back to a pretty remarkable decision. i think it's fair to say it is not easy to train as a heart surgeon. it takes one heck of a lot of commitment and effort. why on earth, as still a young man in egypt, did you throw all that in to get into comedy and political satire? i have never planned to do that. i mean, despite the fact that i actually went into medicine not liking it very much, but i always joke about the fact that in the middle east, we go into...