Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 349th episode of Awards Chatter,

The Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast,

which this week is brought to you by Comedy Central's

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I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the most interesting and exciting

young talents in Hollywood today.

He is the son of Egyptian immigrants and while grappling with how to conduct his life as an Arab Muslim millennial living in America

became an actor, stand-up comedian and eventually the co-creator, executive producer, co-writer, and star of

Hulu's Rami, a semi-autobiographical show which the New York Times is

described as quote, a quietly revolutionary comedy, close close quote which was honored with a Peabody

Award earlier this year and for which he personally won the best actor in a

comedy series Golden Globe Award earlier this year and is currently in the running for both

the best actor in a comedy series and best directing for a comedy series Emmy Awards.

Rami Youssef.

Over the course of our conversation, the 29-year-old and I discussed the evolution of his relationship with his faith, the early emergence of his passion for storytelling and comedy, how within just a few years he graduated from a small part on a Nick at night show to anchoring an edgy show of his own

The second season of which dropped during the pandemic and like the first season

clocked in with an impressive 97% favorable rating on rotten tomatoes plus much more

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