Ramy Youssef on making TV's first Muslim American sitcom, Hulu's millennial comedy 'Ramy'
Sex outside of marriage. Sex inside of cars. Sex as a 24-7 preoccupation.
Hooking up, getting busy or whatever you choose to call it is central to Hulu's new half-hour comedy "Ramy," which wouldn't be all that remarkable if the series wasn't television's first Muslim American sitcom.
Egyptian American millennial Ramy, played by comedian and show co-creator Ramy Youssef, is an Allah-fearing Arab, but not the sort viewers are used to seeing on their screens. He doesn't come with decimated war-zone scenery, a dusty kifaya headscarf or a Kalashnikov.
Ramy is a shaggy, unsure 28-year-old in a baseball cap, rumpled T-shirt and jeans who still hasn't kicked a childhood habit of smothering whatever's on his plate with too much ketchup.
When he's not searching for his next girlfriend or hanging out with his wheelchair-bound friend
