Ramy Youssef Takes on Haters Who Think He Should Be Pro-Hamas

Like Larry David, Ramy Youssef is the kind of comedian who can’t help but follow his wired mind wherever it leads him. As Curb Your Enthusiasm devotees know all too well, this wild goose chase always ends in anger for David. And as fans of Youssef’s hit Hulu series Ramy could surely tell you, it more often than not ends in indecisiveness for Youssef.

Across three seasons of his hit Hulu series, Ramy, and his debut stand-up special, 2019’s Feelings, Youssef has been processing what he described in the latter as a life that, because he is a young, practicing Muslim living in post-9/11 America, has been defined by things over which he has no control. For audiences used to seeing Youssef idle in his indecisiveness, his new special More Feelings, available Saturday on Max, will undoubtedly register as a surprise. Youssef isn’t processing anymore. He knows how he feels.

In an hour-long set that touches on the many urgent issues of our day, including the war in Gaza, Youssef proves himself to be a compassionate storyteller who, at last, is clear and confident in his beliefs. Through devastating jokes about identity politics and earnest observations like the shared sense of “Christmas-lessness,” he felt with his Jewish friends as a kid, he shows how those in power use the charged politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to pit people against one another and refuses to participate in the pile-on.

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