261 - Alex Edelman
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Responsible for the best reviewed comedy show at Edfringe 2018, Alex Edelman is an irrepressibly funny comic, with a grasp of joke structure and narrative arc that is both innate and studied. We cover his Modern Orthodox Jewish upbringing, and as well as identifying a "a confessional arms race" in modern comedy, he reveals a desperate need to be accepted by his peers. But is he really "solicitous and pandering"? Extra content for this episode includes Alex's hypothetical "formula" for an award-winning first hour, and why although prescriptive it isn't actually that formulaic. We also get to hear him review himself honestly...
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| 0:00.0 | Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy? |
| 0:04.6 | Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it, |
| 0:09.7 | including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com. |
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| 0:40.0 | And if I'm being totally honest with you, I'm never sure that what I'm doing is of quality, |
| 0:51.5 | even if it's gotten really good reviews, and even if it sells out. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today I am talking to Alex |
| 1:14.4 | Edelman my thanks as ever to the Place Hotel on York Place in Edinburgh for their |
| 1:19.2 | kind services in offering us somewhere to record this interview. Alex was the performer, the writer, creator of the best reviewed show at the Edinburgh Festival 2018. |
| 1:30.4 | It was called Just for Us and it was a fantastic piece of work. He was nominated for Best Show and this conversation took place before the results of those nominations came out. |
| 1:43.0 | And also took place, there's a little tiny bit in the extras about Bert Reynolds, |
| 1:46.6 | which happened before Bert's sad death, R.I. Bert. |
| 1:49.2 | And getting back to the point, this is an episode I've been looking forward to for a long time. |
| 1:54.6 | I was really looking forward to having this conversation because I think like the Alfie Brown |
| 1:59.5 | and Tom Tuck episodes of old, Alex is someone who I know well enough that I can really |
| 2:05.0 | prod him in the ribs. So I hope you enjoy that. We're going to talk about his upbringing |
| 2:08.5 | in the modern Orthodox Jewish religion, which is a very eye opening. |
| 2:12.8 | He talked about that on stage. |
| 2:14.0 | Some of the more unusual aspects of his upbringing |
| 2:18.0 | and his schooling come into play. |
| 2:20.3 | We talk about how he considers comedians to be superstars and we talk about how and why and if he is in fact solicitous and pandering |
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