Alex Edelman’s third solo comedy special, Alex Edelman: Just for Us, has had many lives: after debuting the 90-minute show in downtown NYC in 2018, the funnyman took it on the road, performing more than 500 installments over the course of six years, including a run on Broadway. Now it’ll premiere on television as an HBO special tonight, April 6th at 10pm Eastern, reaching its biggest audience yet.
Directed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers and taped in front of a live audience in August 2023 at New York’s Hudson Theatre, the new special tells the real-life story of when Edelman, who was raised Orthodox Jewish, covertly attended a meeting of white nationalists in Queens in a guise to understand people who were posting antisemitic content online. “What happens next forms the backbone of the shockingly relevant, utterly hilarious, timely, and only moderately perspirant stories that comprise JUST FOR US,” reads an HBO press release.
