96. Alex Edelman Part 3: The Broadway Debut

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🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Alex Edelman returns to the podcast for a victorious third visit, as his award-winning solo show Just For Us heads to Broadway. Mike and Alex defend the merits of kids jokes as well as vaudeville-style wordplay. Plus, a heated debate about the Boston accent which stems from a simple question: How do pronounce the word “room”?

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0:00.0	Yeah, it's the museum room the museum room. Yeah every family you said museum like Bostoners
0:05.8	You said museum, but it's not it's museum museum. No, it's not how do you say?
0:13.0	Museum what the words museum museum
0:18.0	Boston that's your Boston talking. I'm from Boston. I it's the same way I say the word R O O M room
0:23.9	Nope
0:24.9	room
0:26.4	I'm not gonna know Gary room room room. Hold on museum and it's room and you are an uncultured Boston asshole
0:41.0	That is the voice of a great Alex Edelman sister time on the podcast. He is a working out favorite
0:47.9	There's a there's an arc to his visits
0:52.2	Which is his show which is called just for us that was honored by the OBE Awards and we talk about that other show today
1:00.4	He's going in Broadway this summer and and you can find out all about it on his website
1:07.2	He's also taking it to Boston April 11th through
1:13.3	23rd there's only a few tickets left. It's an incredible show
1:17.6	It's a fascinating story
1:21.0	Which we alluded to today is basically that he was Alex is as is Jewish and he was sort of
1:27.8	Accidentally invited to sort of a white nationalist meeting on social media
1:31.8	I mean not him directly and and and in a strange twist
1:36.0	He went to the meeting just to see what would happen and no spoilers. I don't want to give away what happens
1:43.5	But but it's a great show. It's called just for us and it's oh
1:47.6	Fantastic I actually myself just wrapped up a week of shows in Providence
1:52.8	Visiting my my my brother
1:55.4	Joe my sister Gina are are working it out producer Peter
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