Ramy Youssef
speaker
353 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
Ramy Youssef’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In high school, I was in a band and played backup guitar, backup vocals, and always fiddled around with guitars. And then I kind of had put the music thing down as I kind of went into comedy and performing and all of that. And then...
We were doing these voices at a sound studio that had all these instruments, and I probably picked up the guitar for the first time after many, many years and started singing these songs as the dad and had so much fun, and then we ended up baking it into the show.
It was originals, and if you go back and listen to the originals, you'd probably encourage us to do covers. Ha!
This comes at the end of an episode where we've seen him probably be his most performative. And then he has this moment when everyone's asleep and he goes out into the driveway and... sits by his halal cart. He's a halal cart vendor in the city, and it's always parked in the driveway. And I love that image because it sticks out in this suburb that they can barely afford.
And he sits at it, starts playing guitar. And at a certain point, there's like a piano line in which he hits the area of the cart where the sodas are stored, and it opens up into a keyboard. And there's a piano that comes out of the cart. And And so he's singing this thing that sounds sad, but at the same time visually is, I think, quite funny.
I think I'm scared But I'm sitting with my family Got to show them that I'm brave Sometimes I'm quiet But I think it's just because I might scream I've got to be Mr. Tough Guy I'm the dad But sometimes Oh, oh the darkness Comes for me And I don't know what to do Yeah, the darkness Oh, it comes for you too And what do you do?
I think I'm gonna fight for the light Yeah I think I'm gonna fight for the light I think I'm gonna fight for the light Baby, I'm fighting the fight
Somebody called it Kebab Dylan. Somebody else was like, wait, this is like War on Drugs. This is like some sort of like Arab Jeff Buckley thing. Yeah, it's totally this like folk thing that is so fun to do as this character because it is. It kind of sneaks up on you. And he, again, he's so crazy the whole episode. And then all of a sudden you go, oh, my God, this guy is so tender.
And there's this tenderness in him. And that is the experience of so many of the men that I know where you go, oh, man, this dude is like kind of intense. And then you get him alone and you go, wait, is this the most emotional person on earth?
It is.
I was very bad at school, and so I ended up leaving. I was always in high school – really middle school and high school, I was fascinated with cameras and I was always making things. And then in the back of my head, I said, this is
what I love doing the most but there's no way I'm going to be able to actually live doing this and and I didn't see a path to it being a career because I didn't know anyone who'd ever done that so I just thought I had to go to school and become a lawyer you know because that was kind of the only thing I could imagine myself doing even if I had no real connection to like the law I just said well I know how to talk and it seems like those guys talk and then they're able to feed their families by talking and
So that was kind of all I could see. There's some books you got to read in the middle. And then this comedy thing comes up and you go, oh, well, you could talk here too. And this is way more in line with what I love about art and filmmaking. And so, yeah, it just became inevitable at a certain point.
Yeah.
Well, this is a great thing. There's so many great features that are built into it. You can do traveler's prayers or you can combine. I mean, it's amazing.
Oh, yeah.
You can combo. You can combo and shorten. But I think the thing you're talking about, though, in terms of like fitting it in in certain places, this is where I actually think – an artistic lifestyle is so interesting because, so my father, you know, worked managing hotels, always on his feet, always dealing with people. Hey, where do I pray? Like the broom closet, you know, there's that.
And it's just like, where's that going to happen? And then, you know, when you're an artist, it's like everyone assumes you're going to be 20 minutes late. You know, there's this whole other, you know, kind of way. And I always think, you know, I'm surrounded by spiritual people, you know, whether they are, you know, part of any sort of practicing thing or not.
Because Hollywood is basically, hey, I have this 130-page, you know, thing, and I know you don't see it yet, but I see it. I believe in the unseen of these words on this page. Come with me and let's all believe in it together and make it, right? It's such a spiritual place. You know, everyone is tapping into, you know, the unseen of
We do. Yeah, it's on our call sheet.
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