Ramy Youssef, Rebecca Miller and Jon Hamm on the books that are his ‘Treat’
The Treatment
KCRW
4.8 • 36 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with comedian and Golden Globe winning actor Ramy Youssef, whose Hulu series “Ramy” is currently in its third season. Next, writer and director Rebecca Miller stops by to talk about her new collection of short stories called “Total.” And on The Treat, actor Jon Hamm tells us about an author whose books he can’t stop recommending.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
| 0:14.3 | It's The Treatment. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Elvis Mitchell, my guest, I'm going to call him first actor, writer, and sometimes comedian, Rami Youssef, |
| 0:23.0 | is embarked on the third season of his show, Rami. |
| 0:25.8 | How best to describe it? |
| 0:27.3 | It's a show that from seasons to season end it with a cliffhanger. |
| 0:31.2 | I think, and I've said this to him before, this new season, every episode is its own |
| 0:36.1 | cliffhanger. |
| 0:36.6 | Rami, first of all, welcome. |
| 0:37.7 | Thank you for doing this. |
| 0:39.3 | Oh, thank you for having me. |
| 0:41.1 | Every episode, we talked about this before, is its own cliffhanger in this way that you |
| 0:45.0 | really ratcheted up the stakes in the way that you hadn't done it in previous seasons. |
| 0:49.4 | And I want to have you talk about that because it's a really different take on what you |
| 0:54.1 | done with the show so far. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, I mean, I think like pretty early on, I think even going into season two, we had this debate, which was we had spent the season one kind of dealing with this character's kind of optimistic confusion and soul searching. |
| 1:11.4 | And we felt like we could repeat that engine, |
| 1:15.4 | but it would almost be, yeah, like the word repeat, right? |
| 1:19.8 | And so that felt a little bit boring to us. |
| 1:22.5 | I mean, I think I love comedies that have that type of formula, |
| 1:26.8 | whether it be, you know, I mean, obviously Larry David |
| 1:29.1 | does that so well across curb and Seinfeld. And, you know, I think you can see that kind of pattern |
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