Ramy Youssef

Ramy Youssef's response to being nominated on Tuesday for an Emmy Award was to simply thank God.

Ramy Youssef’s Golden Globe win this year, for his comic role on his series “Ramy,” came as a delightful surprise. And on “Westworld,” Tessa Thompson is casting into the future, imagining a woman of color who’s eventually inhabited by an android — and keeping her work human scale throughout. They talked to each other over video chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors issue.

Clockwise from top left: Ramy Youssef, Pat Brown, Greer Barnes, and Carmen Lynch. CBS/Screenshots/Fotor. Stephen Colbert has made no secret of his opinions about Donald Trump. The late night host has been a ray of light in an endlessly depressing news cycle, inventing new and myriad ways to roast the president.

Hulu has given a pilot presentation order to a comedy co-created by and starring actor-comedian Ramy Youssef. It hails from The Carmichael Show team of star/ co-creator Jerrod Carmichael, co-creator Ari Katcher and production company A24. The untitled show, which Youssef co-created and co-wrote with Katcher and  ...