Comedian and Actor Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
00:00
The Bridge Between Comedy and Comedy
I was so bad at auditioning or I would get really anxious, but then I would also feel like nothing quite fit me. So there was this thing where the acting thing just wasn't hitting. And I almost forgot for a period that I knew how to make my own things because I just got so into the acting world. Then I said, hold up, I got, you know, this gift of an acting job, but that's over. And now I got to go back to digging into what it is I really want to say and what I want to do. There was this period of just doing stand up for the first time in a serious way. It was like three years
Play episode from 40:42
Transcript
