Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady Thought ‘#1 Happy Family USA’ Would Be a ‘Time Capsule:’ ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Coming Out in the Time That It Is’

For those who person seen Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady‘s animated drama bid “#1 Happy Family USA,” nan title is simply a building a Muslim family repeats complete and complete to beryllium their patriotism to America successful nan aftermath of nan 9/11 attacks.

“It is simply a building I deliberation group are astir apt saying astatine nan airdrome coming because of really chaotic nan world has become,” Youssef said alongside Brady astatine nan IndieWire Honors ceremony, held successful Los Angeles connected Thursday night. “We thought we were making a clip capsule, and unluckily we made thing that I can’t judge it’s coming retired successful nan clip that it is.”

“#1 Happy Family USA“ premiered this past April connected Amazon Prime Video, and Amazon gave it a 2 play order, truthful there’s still much to come. But each that came astir “six aliases 7 executives later,” Youssef joked of nan recent turnover astatine Amazon.

“Us getting recognized for this show, erstwhile I first met Pam, I said, ‘Do you want to transportation thing that astir apt shouldn’t beryllium connected television, but we’re successful an inflated streaming marketplace and they’ll opportunity yes?’ And she said yes,” Youssef said.

“My superpower is to activity pinch geniuses,” Brady added. “Ramy, it’s been truthful wonderful.”

Youssef and Brady previously told IndieWire really making nan show animated allowed them to beryllium much fearless pinch their material, to push nan boundaries of what benignant of ideas nan show could probe and moreover really often they could tinker pinch a joke to make judge it’s conscionable right.

“In a batch of ways, making an animated show was little daunting than making a live-action show that was not only dealing pinch things that were delicate to me, but besides utilizing my look and my sanction and each that stuff,” Youssef said of his Hulu show “Ramy” that shares his sanction and successful which he stars. “To spell into thing that’s like, ‘He’s conscionable a cartoon’ really felt measurement much liberating, and felt for illustration let’s conscionable fucking propulsion it astatine nan wall.”

“It’s truthful interesting, because nan show is successful a batch of ways astir fear, but moving pinch Ramy, nan imaginative process was beautiful fearless,” Brady added. “It didn’t consciousness for illustration we were being provocative for nary reason, conscionable to beryllium provocative. We were conscionable telling nan story. We’re exploring a 12-year-old boy’s mentality astatine a really reliable time, and nan truth that it felt existent gave america nan assurance to push it.”

The bid caps disconnected a large past mates of years for Youssef, successful which he cameoed successful “The Studio,” starred successful nan HBO movie “Mountainhead,” debuted different stand-up typical for HBO, co-starred successful “Poor Things,” and saw nan merchandise of a caller play of his different Netflix bid “Mo” that he co-created.

Brady is simply a longtime shaper connected “South Park” and wrote nan “South Park” movie and Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s “Team America: World Police,” and “South Park” proved to beryllium a large inspiration for Youssef that led to nan 2 of them collaborating.

The IndieWire Honors event took spot astatine NeueHouse successful Hollywood connected Thursday, June 5 arsenic hosted by comedian and “Hacks” breakout prima Robby Hoffman. Other honorees for nan evening included Ben Stiller, Colin Farrell, Owen Cooper, Julianne Nicholson, Kathy Bates, and more.