Ramy Youssef’s Golden Globe prize searched by TSA, star suggests it’s over ‘Muslim name’

Even Golden Globe awards get searched during Los Angeles International Airport.

Ramy Youssef’s freshly-minted Golden Globe statuette was flagged by TSA during LAX Tuesday, only days after he won best for lead actor in a comedy for Hulu’s “Ramy.”

Youssef, 28, documented going by confidence with his hardware on his Instagram Story, showing himself fixation a boxed endowment in a customary luggage bin and pulling it onto a circuit belt. It was subsequently flagged and serve inspected. 

“Is that partial of a exam or what?” Youssef pronounced as a womanlike TSA representative acted with Golden Globe endowment like she had only won. She afterwards proceeded to clean a statuette down for confidence tests. 

Youssef playfully asked a agent, “Did it pass?” while pity a laugh. 

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He added, “The ‘random’ checks we have to understanding with when we have a Muslim name.”

TSA did not immediately respond to USA TODAY’s ask for comment. 

On Sunday, Youssef kick out a likes of Ben Platt (“The Politician”), Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”), Bill Hader (“Barry”) and Paul Rudd (“Living with Yourself”) to win best actor in a comedy or low-pitched for “Ramy,” that follows an Arab Muslim family vital in New Jersey.

Shortly after horde Ricky Gervais non-stop a Globes telling winners to skip a domestic lectures and only “thank your representative and your God,” Youssef was a initial star of a night to win a prize.

“I would like to appreciate my God, Allahu akbar,” Youssef pronounced during his acceptance speech. “This is interjection to God and Hulu.”

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