Alex Edelman

Alex Edelman (born 1989) is an American stand-up comedian based in New York. His show "Millennial" won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe,[1] the first American to do so since Arj Barker won in 1997.

Edelman grew up in an orthodox Jewish family in Boston, spending a year in a Yeshiva in Jerusalem before returning to the US to study English at NYU. He's been performing stand-up since the age of 15.[2] He first performed in the UK in 2012[3] and in Australia in 2015.[4]

Edelman's 2015 Edinburgh Fringe show was titled "Everything Handed to You," and was the second most well-reviewed show at that year's festival.[5] He has appeared in the UK on television shows such as The John Bishop Show, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled and Live from the BBC, and contributed several anecdotes about his experiences as a comedian to the 2015 book 'Off the Mic', by Deborah Frances-White and Marsha Shandur.

References

  1. ↑ "Best Newcomer - Edinburgh Comedy Awards". Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Boston Globe - A funny thing happened on the way to the Yeshiva". 1 June 2008.
  3. ↑ Edelman, Alex (8 August 2015). "Alex Edelman: How I learned to love the British sense of humour". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ Edelman, Alex (21 April 2015). "I absolutely don’t want to meet a koala". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ "Nish of the Day! News 2015". Chortle UK. 7 September 2015.


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