Ramy Youssef

DESCRIBING RAMY YOUSSEF'S WORK ISN'T EASY, BECAUSE HE REFUSES TO settle on just one thing. "I feel really inspired to connect in the way that it makes sense."

- H. Alan Scott

That started out with stand-up, but has since morphed into acting, writing, directing and producing. The New Jersey native's next endeavor, on the heels of his appearance in the Oscar-winning film Poor Things, is the new HBO stand-up special More Feelings (March 23). "I'm definitely living on a prayer, and that's probably the magic piece in this special, where it kind of feels like everything's just hanging by this really thin string." A key to his material is "looking for what allows it to feel like almost a weird, linear thought, but going into a lot of different things... somehow it's kind of all one thought." But for Youssef, no matter if it's for stand-up, his Hulu series Ramy or Netflix's Mo, the process