The laugh of an audience discovering that what they're watching is actually for them is a different laugh.

Welcome back to where everybody knows your name. Alex Edelman is a brilliant Emmy and Obie and Tony winning performer and comedian.

He currently stars in the paper on Peacock, which is a spin-off of the office, playing the reporter

Adam Cooper. He's also part of the writing team. Just a couple of nights ago, Mary and I watched

Just for Us, and it's brilliant.

I'm very excited for this conversation.

So let's get into it.

Here's Alex Edelman.

Some of the research always includes, is there a connection between me and the guest?

Then this was no, no connection. But I beg to differ,

because we do have Boston in that you are the real deal. And I am just a major disappointment

to the city of Boston. No, I am. I don't know if we can curse so early on this podcast, but that's such

bullshit. You are so associated with you. You're such an ambassador for the city.

Yes. Okay. You know, I'll give you Boston, but not the Red Sox. Because I made the bad mistake of saying, oh, no, I was always picked last playing baseball. I can't play baseball. I know nothing about baseball.

You must have thrown out a first pitch at Phelma Park at some point. No. Never Never? Never. And the reason is because they realize I'm just a phony L.A. actor pretending to be a baseball player. But here's my question. If you were invited to throw out a first pitch at Vime Park, would you go? If you could do it underhand. My shoulder's fucked. My shoulder's gone. You can do it underhand. Seriously? Yeah, you can do it. You can toss it like a, like, I'm sure you, I'm sure you could do it on the hand. Wait, how's your, what fucked up your shoulder? Well, all right. Born without a chest muscle on my right side, more than you want to know. But every time I'd go up for rebound, playing basketball,

some bigger guy would push my shoulder the wrong way. So by now it's just kind of bone-on-bone. Well, you know what? I could help with the logistics of that because I used to work there, which I'm sure is in your notes. I know. At age 15, though, right? I mean, I was even younger than that. But yeah, I grew up, I grew up, I was the biggest Red Sox fan in the world, and I loved it there. So, yeah, I got to work there. It was the coolest thing on the planet. So you went there with your dad, the heart specialist? My parents didn't really like baseball. Right. My parents, my father, once I brought him to a ballgame and he brought Tom Clancy's

hunt for the Red October with him and sat there reading.

And I remember going up to the commentator's booth and, I'm not kidding, he had good seats

because they were the employee seats.

And I brought my dad to the ball game as opposed to vice versa.

And they're making fun of them on the air.

I remember being like, there's a guy down there,

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