Ramy Youssef on His New Special, Living Through Controversy and Why Memes Are Art

About this episode

Ramy Youssef discusses his new HBO special, navigating controversy, and his thoughts on memes as art.

Comedian Ramy Youssef joins us this week to talk about his new HBO special 'In Love', living through controversy and why he would visit a meme museum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Vulture

Guest: Ramy Youssef

Topics covered

• comedy
• HBO special
• memes
• controversy
• art

Keywords

• Ramy Youssef
• HBO special
• In Love
• memes
• comedy
• controversy
• art

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HBO

Books & works: In Love

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