The Role of Political Egyptian comedy programs in Forming knowledge and awareness of Political issues of the Egyptian youth

Recently a new kind of programs was aired. They represent the political and comic media which provide, the citizens with information, and the political knowledge. The purpose of this study is to determine how the youth realize the political topics by the role of Political Comedy Programs generally, to know the relation between watching this kind of programs and forming the youth's political awareness. The study depends on the Survey method, Regarding the Field Study, the community of the study is represented in all the public who watch the Political Comedy Programs; it has been applied on intentional sample of the 400 individual of the Egyptian youth, (18-30) years old, from governorate of Great Cairo (Cairo, Giza, and Qalubia). Results bring out that most of respondents actually changed their minds about many of the political issues and persons after watching these programs. This makes it clear that these programs can play a great role in affecting audience's opinions. Results proved also that there is a correlation between heavy watching of political comedy programs and perception of youth towards political issues.