Saturday Night Live
Ramy Youssef & Travis Scott
March 30, 2024
Ramy Youssef is one of those interesting characters who it doesn’t feel like has had his big breakout moment yet, despite being the creator and star of an Emmy-nominated Golden Globe-winning series that is named after him; being the co-creator of a different Peabody Award-winning show; the star of two HBO stand-up specials and being the co-star of a multi-Oscar-winning film this year. And yet, I don’t think he’s quite a household name … yet.
So I’m pleased he hosted last night’s Saturday Night Live where he was able to show the country his careful, clever, empathetic style of comedy. Last night, Youssef was saddled with an otherwise mediocre set of sketches; there wasn’t an obvious stinker in the group, but there wasn’t anything in here (aside from his monologue) that is going to be remembered in a couple of months. Still, he was able to add to the show a little bit of his culture and comedy about being Muslim-American, introducing it to a new audience during a particularly fraught moment in geopolitics.
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