71. Alex Edelman Returns: The 25 Word Pitch

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes back Alex Edelman. Since his last appearance on the podcast, Alex has opened his solo show “Just For Us,” received rave reviews, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and has been nominated for an outer critics circle award. He just announced a 3rd extension of his show at the Greenwich House Theater in New York City beginning June 13. The two friends discuss how two pitch your own work in 25 words as well as as horrible nicknames, accidentally reading other people’s texts, and how to finance a burrito. Plus, Mike is concerned his daughter might be turning into an insult comic or worse, a ventriloquist.

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0:00.0	Alex Edelman, Alex Edelman, Alex Edelman walked in here just months ago.
0:07.7	A loser, a nobody.
0:10.0	Today he has entered a returning champion, a star of New York, stage and screen.
0:16.9	He's been, he's in all the talk shows.
0:18.7	Like, what if that was my new persona?
0:20.8	He walked in.
0:21.8	A loser, a nothing, a nobody, a schmuck, a schlameel, a schlameel, just the endless.
0:28.8	And today he's still that, but people like his show.
0:31.8	Hey everybody, it's Mike for Biglia.
0:36.6	That is the voice of Alex Edelman.
0:38.8	This is such a fun episode today.
0:42.1	Cause it's the return of Alex Edelman.
0:44.7	He was on the show in the fall, right before his solo show Just For Us was about to debut
0:51.4	off Broadway.
0:52.4	I'm presenting the show.
0:54.2	I think it's fantastic.
0:57.0	It's then it's going into its second sold out run at the Soho Playhouse.
1:04.2	And then starting a new six week run at the Greenwich House Theatre, starting June 13th
1:09.8	tickets at Just For Us show.com.
1:14.5	We have a great chat of I'm in Chicago this week, by the way.
1:18.1	For four weeks I'll be at the Steppenwolf Theatre.
1:20.8	Last night I did my first show.
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