Ramy Youssef on How His Criticizing of President Biden Makes People Nervous: ‘If It’s That Fragile, How’s That On Me?’
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Ramy Youssef‘s latest HBO special, “Ramy Youssef: More Feelings,” had been in the works for years — and had evolved over time as Youssef got in a relationship and eventually got married.
But some of his routine also became very more front and center for audiences in the wake of the war in Gaza. “There’s stuff that I do touch on, a tightrope walk of taking really big concepts, and then making them super personal,” Youssef tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “With our show [Hulu’s “Ramy”], we had already done that with Palestine and Israel.
And in my stand up, I had already done versions of it. But in the last seven or eight months, it became something that has risen to the surface for everybody.
When you’re taking your time to talk about it for 10 minutes in a set, it’s important to you. On a show, you’re dedicating episodes to something, it’s important to you.
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