Ramy Youssef in Season 2 of Ramy.

The show, written and created by comedian Ramy Youssef, is about a young Egyptian American man who navigates his relationship to his faith while also trying to figure out his own identity and place in the world?

Youssef won a Golden Globe for his starring role, and Season 2, which comes out Friday, features Oscar winner Mahershala Ali.

It definitely changed in terms of how many people are watching the show, and it felt like the show came out again after the Globes so it was really exciting for all of us.

I don’t think I’ve on a personal level felt it as much just because I’ve been in production mode.

He just reached out to congratulate me on the show and as a “hey, we should be friends.” It very organically turned into a thing where we had had this idea for a sheikh character coming in at the end of the second season, and then when it became clear that he was around and available, we were like it would be really good to actually build the season around this relationship.

I think that in general the way that black people are represented has always been obviously just a huge issue for this country?

In terms of the American experience of Islam, it doesn’t really get any more American than black Muslims.

Ramy Youssef in Season 2 of Ramy.

It’s like this should be real to my experience or this should be an advertisement, fluff piece of us being not the bad guys, but my approach is that this show is so personal that it’s algebraic: It’s like, okay, yeah, the uncle on this show is is anti-Semitic, but every Jewish person who watches this show says: “I have that uncle, but he hates Muslims,” or white people watch the show and they’re like, “I have that uncle who says that stuff about black people.” These characters very much represent an American family.

I never want to be seen as the representative of the Muslim American experience — because it is not representative and it’s not fair to how diverse that is — but in terms of personal branding.

For me, it was very disheartening to see people who looked like me and who had names like me being associated with these things, and when those are the only cultural references you have, you start to fear yourself in a way.

It’s not really what I predicate my show on.

It’s not a show that’s built on the opposition to Trump or built on even opposition toward Muslims.

It’s really a show about faith.

I actually think a lot of the people who consider themselves fans of Trump on any sort of basis of being very religious would really enjoy my show because my show is about a religious person who is trying to be a better religious person?

Ramy Youssef in Season 2 of Ramy.

There was a time when there were no black people on television.

And you can tell good stories while still representing the reality of our communities.” Do you think that a show like Ramy can achieve this goal and make a difference in how people perceive Muslims.

There are so many people who say I didn’t even know a Muslim — I got an email from a guy who was like “I’m an Evangelical Christian father of three and I’m Ramy.” He connected to it on a level that he never thought that he would again because of that faith aspect.

In our second season, we have an episode that maybe Trump wouldn’t like as much because there’s a character who isn’t a fan of his, but I think he’s used to people not being a fan of his.