- Hey guys, I'm Ramy Youssef
and today I'm going
undercover on the internet.
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It's Actually Me.
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Twitter.
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Is Ramy the best show about
New Jersey since Sopranos?
I don't know, it could
be I mean New Jersey
always looks so bad
I say this all the time but
trying to defend New Jersey is
way harder than trying to
defend Muslims, like people have
their prejudices, they
think we're on the mob
they think the whole thing is the shore.
So in terms of positive
Jersey representation, yeah,
I think we're up there.
How to watch in a Hulu-less country?
I don't think I can legally say,
but people find a way to watch the show.
but people find a way to watch the show.
It's also available actually
on a lot of places that
have picked up the show.
So depending on where you
are, it's probably somewhere.
We've distributed it which is exciting.
You can read arabic?
I am so proud for you,
something great Egyptian man.
nominates for the Golden Globe,
good luck Ramy, thumbs up
Oh, thank you so much,
that's really sweet.
I do read Arabic...poorly.
I do read Arabic...poorly.
I will admit but I can get through it.
I speak Arabic.
But the reading is probably
a little fourth grade level
yeah, right around there, the basics.
Who plays your parents?
Isn't the father the an Egyptian actor?
Yes, Amr Waked plays
my dad, Egyptian legend
and it's amazing to have
that dude on the show.
Ramy, how has your acting
training influenced your writing
and how has writing
influenced your acting?
That's a really good
question, I think I've found
in acting training when you
can't remember the lines,
usually means it's bad writing
and so it kind of started to
feed off each other.
I'm like, okay, if I can't
remember my lines that means
I probably wrote them wrong
and then when you're writing
you really wanna like act it out.
So most of my writing is just
me walking around in a room,
talking to myself like a
crazy person because it is
a legitimately crazy endeavor
for crazy people and,
if you think anything
on screen seems crazy,
it's cause it is cause it's
all insane and fake, but real
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All right, this is a picture
of me and my sister and
then someone just 'Alif, alif
mabrouk Ramy! Well deserved'
'Have you tried letting her
hold the award so she can feel
its power and awesomeness?
But don't stand too close,
she might hit you with it
#sister'
That's very true, I like the
username too a crafty Arab.
No, I did, I let my sister hold it.
I was actually trying to get
her to hold it for me while
we were walking, it's
heavier than you think it is.
It's super heavy and my arm
was getting sore so I was like
can you hold this? She was like 'sure'.
Held it for a second and yes,
she was gonna hit me with it
if I didn't take it back,
so I held it for the rest of the night.
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Wikipedia
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Youssef was raised in
Rutherford, New Jersey, attended
Rutherford High School, he
performed sketch comedy while
studying political science and
economics in college, yeah,
while there, Youssef served
as a camp counselor for the
Rotary Youth Leadership
Awards in New Jersey.
I can't believe that me
being a camp counselor
is on my Wikipedia page,
somebody's gotta edit this,
I don't know how this
happened, obviously someone
from the camp edited the Wikipedia page,
I don't if they have, you
know, privileges to do that.
Being a camp counselor was amazing,
we used to do this thing
where would visit the woods,
and no one was allowed to
have their phones and so we do
this thing to the kids where
we'd order a box of pizza,
we'd order like five
boxes of pizza and then
we'd pull out everyone
at night and be like
who ordered this pizza?
Like, one of you did it
and then we tried to see
who would tell on someone
and if everyone stood there, they be like
'you guys made the challenge'
but some years, some people
would just straight up be
like 'dude, it was Max'
and then Max gets in
trouble, but he doesn't
you know the kid who
usually they'd pinned on,
we would celebrate him,
for taking the fall.
So, it was really all about leadership.
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Instagram
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Hey Ramy, what are you reading?
I think that was a book of poetry,
I don't remember what
the poems were though,
it was more of a vibe you know,
I kinda bought the book,
read a couple pages.
It's hard to finish a book,
specially a poetry book.
I don't think, I actually don't think
poetry books are meant to be finished!
Like I think you're supposed
to just kinda open it up,
get a little and then, I
would argue most books are
not meant to be finished, I think you just
kinda get a couple, you get the idea
and you carry it with
you and then it becomes
part of your life, you
know, subconsciously.
This picture of me as a kid someone says
'is it taken in Egypt or in the States?'
It was actually taken the States but,
we made it look like Egypt
cause that's what happens
when immigrants come here
and we just make our entire
house look like where we came
from so that it feels like
we didn't leave and you're
like but why did you leave?
And that's the question we
never find an answer to.
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Any comedy shows in New York anytime soon?
All the time!
Always popping up, doing stand up.
A lot of the show is based on stand up so
I'm trying to keep it
going super fresh so,
yeah I do that and post
about it sometimes.
But then there's also a
comment here that's says
'oh, so cute I can't
even take it', to which,
you know, just don't, just unfollow.
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YouTube
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Is 'Isis or breakfast' a
reference to coffee or suicide?
Wow, no, but... I didn't realize
that I was philosophizing
Wow, no, but... I didn't realize
that I was philosophizing
on that level.
Cool!
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Wait, he's supposed to be
in New York, New Jersey
what's up with his accent?
No shade, I'm from California
but this dude sounds like
he's from Orange County.
It's really funny cause people,
when I was growing up in
Jersey, they just call me Cali.
Which, I don't know like
accent wise like I'm just happy
I don't have a Jersey accent but,
I actually learned Arabic
first and then learned English
I think somewhere there, you
know the accent formed but
I'll take Orange County over South Jersey.
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Did he just dawah while doing stand up?
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Dawah means spreading the faith
and I don't know, maybe
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How chill is this dude?
What happens when he gets high?
I don't know, I haven't gotten high,
I have no idea what would happen.
I think if I started I wouldn't stop,
which is why I haven't done
it but weed looks cool,
smoking looks cool and I feel
like I would wanna do it,
I would never get anything
done so I haven't done it yet.
My plan is to do it when I'm like 50.
Like I wanna kind of get
a bunch of stuff done,
maybe have kids, get them
to a certain age and then
just be like 'Dad's in the basement'.
Dad's always in the basement, why?
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IMDB
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Height, 5 foot 9, I feel
like this was put in here
to question and challenge if
that's actually my height.
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With shoes
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With shoes
So, I think if you put
the shoes on it's 5' 9''
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Reddit
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He's ending Ramadan in
a bar? Odd, but okay.
Yeah, one Ramadan I did stand up in a bar.
So I wasn't going there,
I was going to work,
that's part of the Arab/Muslim work ethic,
which is even if it's Ramadan,
I'm working, I'm doing my job.
The stand up brought me to
the bar, what can I say?
You know, I was there.
On Ramy Youssef inks
overall deal with A24,
does that mean he's not
bringing back the Hulu show
for another season?
No, the Hulu show is coming back.
Our second season comes out May 29th
and hopefully we'll do many more,
maybe two more, I don't wanna that many.
People will get tired of me.
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Quora
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Does the TV show "Ramy" accurately depict
an Egypitian-American family?
A few of them, yeah, I mean,
I think it definitely hits a lot of it
and a lot of things some
Egyptian-American families
don't go through, yeah.
Thank you for your questions,
that's it I'm signing out,
this was a lot
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