‘Alex Edelman: Just For Us’
Already a special Tony Award winner, comedian Alex Edelman’s latest special is now an Emmy winner as well. Edelman just took home the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for Just For Us, which was filmed live at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre in NYC and released following the sold out run on Max. In the stand-up special, Edelman details (with plenty of hilarious, in-depth asides) a time he covertly attended a White Nationalist meet-up in Queens, New York to come face to face with the people who had been sending him anti-Semetic threats online. It’s a comedy special unlike anything I’ve experienced live (as I was lucky enough to see it on Broadway), and Edelman’s storytelling abilities really shine through. Yes, of course, the writing is excellent — it just won an Emmy — but it’s the deeply empathetic spin Edelman puts on the performance that really makes Just For Us shine.