178. Alex Edelman Returns: Boston Sports and Hospital Clowns

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

With his fifth appearance, comedian Alex Edelman is the most frequent guest on Working It Out. Since his last appearance, Alex won an Emmy for his HBO stand-up special Just For Us, which Mike was a producer on. Now Alex is back on the road with a new hour of comedy, including a just-announced visit to Carnegie Hall. Alex discusses Boston sports memories, whether AI will replace comedians, and grieving the death of his creative collaborator Adam Brace. Plus, Alex’s rocky stint as a hospital clown, and his new job as a writer and actor on Greg Daniels’ highly anticipated follow up to The Office: The Paper.

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0:00.0	the show just for us, you know, it came out a year and a half ago.
0:05.0	Yeah.
0:05.6	Having performed the show so many times, seeing the reaction to it being on HBO,
0:11.0	what would be the most surprising reaction you've received about the show?
0:15.8	It's on airplanes now.
0:17.6	Oh, that's cool.
0:18.3	So I'm getting random messages.
0:20.2	When I say random messages, they're truly random messages. Yeah, we're cool. So I'm getting random messages. When I see random messages,
0:21.3	they're truly random messages. We're going down. Yeah. Call the police. Your show is the last thing I
0:26.5	saw in, and I bought Wi-Fi to tell you that if this is the last thing I see in turbulence,
0:33.1	I hate it.
0:43.3	That is the voice of the great Alex Edelman.
0:45.3	This is Alex's fifth time on the show.
0:48.4	I think this is the most that anyone's ever been on the show.
0:51.7	Alex is, of course, a great stand-up comic.
0:58.3	You know him from his Emmy Award-winning solo show just for us which i helped produce it's on hbo max he is currently touring with an all new show called what are you
1:05.3	going to do i think it's hilarious i love his new material We have a great chat today. I've got a few live
1:11.9	shows coming up this summer. John Mulaney is on tour, and so Nick Kroll and Fred Armisen and
1:18.5	I are opening up a bunch of those shows. It's going to be a blast. It's kind of a dream come true.
1:24.3	We're going to be in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as Bethel, New York,
1:27.9	Portland, Maine, and Halifax. That's all in August. And then in September, we'll be at Stanley Park
1:33.5	in Vancouver tickets at berbigs.com. And thanks, everybody, for everyone checking out the good
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