The 34-year-old Boston native Alex Edelman has quickly become one of the most must-see rising acts in comedy, with his show drawing famous audience members from Ben Stiller and Jerry Seinfeld to Steve Martin and Billy Crystal.
“They were sitting within eyeshot, so that was my first time actually looking at them while I did the jokes about them,” Edelman says over Zoom from the back of an Uber, en route to the theater one recent evening. “It was really surreal: imagine doing jokes about your family in front of your family — who were laughing, thank God — and also, like, Oscar Isaac. Imagine how weird that is. That’s literally like a weird dream that you’d have.
“I don’t know, maybe I had a more narrow conception of what Broadway is than what it actually is. Broadway feels like it’s for ‘Funny Girl,’” he says. “Also, I’m stunned by, if you’ll excuse the basic term, sort of the hipness of Broadway audiences. Like Broadway audiences are a good deal more interested and interesting than what I thought they were going to be. I always thought ‘Oh, this is a downtown show.
There was also the whole bit of accepting that Broadway was in his grasp at this stage of his career. “Who am I to go to Broadway?” Edelman says. “I’m like, how many times does a comedian get a chance to go to Broadway? It’s extremely rare. It’s so nice. I love it so much. It’s so much fun.” Despite feeling any imposter syndrome, Edelman is making sure to make it fun for himself. Each night ahead of the show, he and his team have 15 minutes of what they call “f–k around time,” where they’ll bring out a mini portable basketball hoop and take turns shooting away. He has a snack bar set up in the theater from Russ & Daughters, complete with rum cordials.
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