This is incredibly good. I watched it on my iPad coming home from Burlington yesterday and I was amazed how Jewish it was, since Felice, a non-Jew, had told me to watch it again and again and again... You see I was in Vail when she viewed it and...
It's taken this long for me to see it.
This is the creativity we used to see in music. Alex Edelman is an original, and while you're laughing you ask yourself...HOW DID HE COME UP WITH THIS STUFF?
This is not typical observational comedy. This is a story, with digressions, and you'll absolutely laugh out loud at certain times and you'll ride along with it and smile, because here you are experiencing something novel, not just a variation on a riff, you watch it and feel like an insider, even though the show is widely available on MAX, which has the worst interface known to man.
In other words, if you subscribe to HBO, or the umbrella platform MAX, you can pull up "Alex Edelman: Just For Us" on demand, and you should.
Oftentimes when I hear new music I say to myself... Well, that's okay, but it doesn't compare to Joni Mitchell or... I mean in a world where you're competing against everything ever recorded, which is available on YouTube if not Spotify, et al, you've got to be equally good to get our attention, and almost nothing is. Sure, there are hits, but...
I lived through the sixties, I lived through testing limits, and today's concept of bleeding edge and dangerous is to use swear words or to get into a fight at the Waffle House. Everybody's trying to appear hip and almost no one is. Everyone is inside a bubble, which means if you're outside the bubble you stand out, like Alex Edelman.
He's got his own delivery. And he tells stories with you included. You can see yourself in some of the situations, well...some of the situations.
And Alex nails the Jewish perspective. They were afraid of "Seinfeld" being too Jewish, Edelman and HBO were not worried about that here.
However comedy now lives on Netflix, so I wish it were there, the service with the most attention, but at least you can see it.
I'm loath to tell you a single thing about "Alex Edelman: Just For Us," because some of the points are surprises, and oftentimes pay dividends further down the road, but WATCH IT!
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