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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Comedian Ramy Youssef

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning actor, writer and standup comedian Ramy Youssef returns to The Late Show, where he made his first televised standup comedy appearance, and catches up with Stephen about their incredible trip to the Vatican. “Ramy Youssef: In Love” is now streaming on HBO Max.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Late Show Potshow with Stephen Colbert.

0:09.1

Welcome back. My next guest is a Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning actor, writer, and stand-up comedian. You know from Rami and Poor Things. His new stand-up special is Rami Yusuf in love.

0:22.6

I got this call.

0:24.2

Again, I could only talk to my wife about this.

0:26.5

I got this call from Stephen Colbert.

0:29.6

Yeah, and no, but he goes, Rami, I would like to invite you to a closed-door meeting

0:35.8

at the Vatican with the Pope.

0:40.3

Yeah, and this was like the Pope, I mean, not the Chicago, Pope.

0:46.3

No offense to you guys.

0:49.3

I just think, okay, I think he's a great guy.

0:52.3

I just have this belief that popes should not know English.

0:55.9

I don't know.

0:58.5

Shouldn't the Pope just be so...

1:00.0

You know the Pope? Just, there's a vibe.

1:01.9

It's just like, I mean yon yon-ya.

1:05.4

You know, like, that kind of Italian?

1:07.5

It's so Italian. It sounds Japanese.

1:15.2

Yeah. kind of Italian, it's so Italian, it sounds Japanese. This new one, he's, they go, Pope Bob plays words with friends with his brother every day.

1:20.3

Okay, the Pope has an Apple ID.

1:24.0

Please welcome back to the Late Show, Rami Yusuf.

2:17.6

For... Please welcome back to The Late Show, Rami Yusuf. First of all, and we can cut this out if you don't want me to talk about it. You smell really good. What is your, what are we wearing? What is very manly but very fresh? What do you, what do you wear? It's the kind of thing. It's, you know, I wouldn't really tell you. Because I don't want... Because you're not sponsored. Well, yeah. You're not sponsored and nobody gets a free ride. It's a tough thing and then you'll start wearing it and it'll be a whole thing. Exactly. I'll steal your career. We just saw that clip. So people know you and I met Pope Francis together. Yeah. day like you? I actually haven't had that much chance to talk to many people. There were like 16 of us from the United States who went, and we haven't had, I haven't talked to that many people about it since. It was incredible. I mean, it was such a spiritual place. I had some doubts about going. Sure. I was, because it was such an incredible invitation. And I also had this, I was like, okay, Stephen trying to get me in the Illuminati. Like, I don't know. I'm trying to get me in the Illuminati. Well, I, which I quickly figured out. Like, we pulled up and I said, oh, he's not in. No. That was clear. Because we came in through the servants entrance. It was not a good entrance.

2:35.0

We came in through the back door, basically. It was really beautiful. It was actually such a beautiful, gorgeous thing, which, and that's how I, I knew I wanted to go because it was such a holy place. And my dad really made it clear that I had to go. Why? Well, I called my dad. I was like, do you think I should go to the Vatican? He goes, Rahmi, this is incredible.

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