We’re not all Jon Stewart. I know I’m not. I dropped out of college. Why would you come to me for anything that may influence your fact-based perspective? I think that the job of a comic is to be emotionally true. Ramy Youssef Read Quote
We talk a lot about our identities, and we talk a lot about working to clear misconceptions about those identities. But it’d be really cool to see someone like myself not even have to talk about being Muslim or Egyptian, because it’s just understood. We can all just be weird and not have to explain everything. Ramy Youssef Read Quote
I think that religious culture and the industry of religion pretty much deserves most of the heat that it gets. Ramy Youssef Read Quote
Representation is actually when the character doesn’t have lines, but the camera is lingering on them in their thoughts after something happened, and then we get to see them walk to their car. You really need to follow a character in order to understand what they’re going through. Ramy Youssef Read Quote
This is my point of view, and that’s why I call the show ‘Ramy’. I made the show that I would want to see. So it’s only going to hit on certain things. Ramy Youssef Read Quote
I was in school for a little bit at Rutgers for political science, but it was very loose. Ramy Youssef Read Quote
I got a camera at a very young age, but I always kind of thought of it as a hobby. Ramy Youssef Read Quote
I think that a lot of the stories I would see was kids who are first-generation immigrants, watching them try to rip themselves from their family and their faith and kind of erase. I hadn’t really seen anything where someone’s trying to reconcile the two. Ramy Youssef Read Quote
