23. Ramy Youssef: Kicked in the Golden Globes

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🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Mike welcomes award-winning comedian Ramy Youssef. The two friends discuss the unexpectedly controversial elements of his hit series “Ramy.” They also work on jokes about bad wedding speeches, getting kicked in the balls, and the time Ramy told people in Jacksonville that he was Muslim to which a woman replied, “We don’t do that here.” Well, the good news is: we do this here. Enjoy. Please consider donating to: Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative https://www.muslimarc.org/

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0:00.0	So you're in New Jersey right now?
0:04.1	Yeah, bro. We're Jersey style right now dude. I'm at my childhood home, my parents house. Oh my gosh. Good for you.
0:13.6	Good for you. Wow.
0:16.7	It's all happening.
0:18.1	Something something is happening. I don't know if it's all happening.
0:30.2	Hey friends, Mike Grimmiglia here. Happy Thanksgiving to you. It's it's a big week. We're putting on these
0:39.3	these working it out virtually shows on on Friday, Saturday and Sunday so you can you can watch with your
0:48.2	families even if one of you is in Ohio and the other one is in Connecticut. You know you can share
0:56.2	this thing that's sort of fun. There's that we just put a trailer up on Instagram. So if you go to
1:01.1	At for Bigs on Instagram, you can see what the virtuals are like. They're really sort of a cool one of a kind thing.
1:08.9	And today we have an episode one of my favorite episodes of all time.
1:13.2	Rami Yusef. This guy, he really is a prodigy. I say he's about 30 years old. He has his own
1:20.2	series on Hulu called Rami that has won a Golden Globe. It's been nominated for multiple Emmys.
1:28.2	He's won a Peabody Award. He has his own HBO stand-up special called Feelings. That's hilarious.
1:35.7	I just I am just infinitely entertained by and impressed by my guest today. I hope you enjoy
1:45.3	this chat as much as I did. Rami Yusef. So you and I met through our mutual friend, a very fun
2:03.4	and comedian, Joshua Binowitz, who I've toured with a lot over the years. And a few years ago,
2:09.0	actually he just said to me sort of like you got to see my friend Rami. This is before your series
2:14.0	and you're special. And I watched you at the seller. You had a joke that like I still quote to
2:21.4	people because it's just just nails a truth, which is it was right around the time of the Michael
2:28.6	Jackson documentary. And you go like people are like where were the parents? You know, and you
2:35.5	make this better. You go like you have to remember this was peak Michael Jackson. This was like 80s,
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