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Ramy Youssef has spent the last several months of 2023 on a global stand-up tour, which is ending its U. S. leg just as he hits the big screen in one of the buzziest films of the year, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things. It’s a movie, and a performance, that will change the way people talk about him. In between stand-up dates, Esquire photographed the 32-year-old in New York, wearing this winter’s smartest overcoats. Then we asked his close friend and collaborator, The Bear creator Christopher Storer, to have a series of conversations with him and send us the recordings. Storer is a producer and director on Youssef’s award- winning Hulu show, Ramy, and Youssef is the only person other than Storer and his co-showrunner, Joanna Calo, who has directed an episode (episode 4, “Honeydew,” which takes place in Copenhagen) of The Bear, also on Hulu. Their first attempt at sending us a tape failed. Thankfully, these two very creative men persevered. What you’ll find here are two conversations that happened in Chicago in October—one in the back of an Uber, the other backstage at Youssef’s show—combined, edited, and condensed for clarity. —the Editors
Ramy Youssef: Hold it like you’re interviewing me. That’s it. The mic’s up here in the top.
Christopher Storer: What do I press?
RY: Nothing. It’s rolling right now.
CS: Hi, buddy. This is take two. Yesterday was a tech fail, or a Chris fail.
RY: You can’t get Chris to do a tech thing. He’s a great director, but he doesn’t touch any of the buttons.
CS: Sorry, Esquire. So, we’re in Chicago, in an Uber, on our way back from Ramy’s show.
RY: What did you think of it?
CS: I thought it was great, dude. Tell me about your routine before a show.
RY: I start in the hotel. I light my incense. Pray, breathe, call my parents. Always got to call the parents before the show.
RY: You got to because you’re going to make fun of them at the show. You have to tell them, “Hey, I might say a few things tonight. Are you okay with it?” And then they’ll say, “Will you show it to us?” And then I say no. And then they say, “Okay, have fun.”
CS: I feel like I should apologize to chefs who have told me stories that end up somewhere in The Bear: “I’m sorry your trauma’s coming back up.”
RY: You got to apologize to chefs. I got to apologize to my family.
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