Ramy review – sharp comedy series examines Muslim American life
Comedian Ramy Youssef navigates a life between two different cultures in a sensitive, funny and occasionally ingenious show
“I don’t know what I’m doing, man,” says Ramy, the alter-ego of 28-year-old comedian Ramy Youssef, to a stony kebab shop owner, also an elder at his north New Jersey mosque. Ramy is confused, recently jobless, stinging from a date with a Muslim woman that he botched by locking her into a chaste, wife-and-mother focused stereotype. He admires his parents – immigrants from Egypt and Palestine – and their unshakable faith in God; he has sex before marriage and will likely try mushrooms someday. “And I believe in God. I really do, man – there’s too many signs,” he reaches for words as the elder smokes. “I mean, one time this girl texted me two minutes after I jerked off to her Facebook photo.”
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