It’s an early Friday morning in May and comedian Alex Edelman is on a Zoom video call from a Los Angeles hotel. He has a bit of a bed head and says that he had to borrow the socks he is wearing, a detail he shares when I tell him I’m nervous about our interview because he’s a really “smart comic.” “That is so nice but.
. I’m not a smart comic. I had that realization today when I figured all the stuff that I forgot to pack for my trip to Los Angeles,” Edelman says.
“I forgot dress shoes, a belt. I forgot to pack socks.” Edelman traveled from his New York City area home for the premiere of Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop Tarts movie, “Unfrosted.
” He makes an appearance in the film as the Apple Head character. “Jerry called out the cast’s name yesterday. We all stood up and to have Jerry Seinfeld even say your name, goodness me,” Edelman says.
“When I was a kid, I used to sneak downstairs after my parents had gone to sleep and my brother AJ and I would watch ‘Seinfeld.’ And then I got to know his stand-up when I started doing stand-up. His documentary ‘Comedian’ was one of the reasons I decided to take comedy seriously.
” Seinfeld is one of the many comedy legends who attended a performance of Edelman’s “Alex Edelman’s Just for Us,” his one-man Broadway show about the night he went to a meeting of white nationalists in Queens, New York, after he was the target of online antisemitic rhetoric about seven years ago. Edelman, who grew up in a m.
