cover of episode How Twitter Took Alex Edelman to IRL White Supremacists

How Twitter Took Alex Edelman to IRL White Supremacists

2023/9/14
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Alex Edelman explains the premise of his show 'Just For Us', which started with him creating a Twitter list of white nationalists and eventually led him to attend a meeting with them.

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A Jewish comedian walks into an apartment in Queens to meet a group of white supremacists … This isn’t the setup to a bad joke — it’s the inciting incident in Alex Edelman’s hit one-man show, “Just For Us,” which recently wrapped a nine-week run on Broadway. 

We talk to Edelman about the value of entering rooms with people you vehemently disagree with, Elon Musk’s threat to sue the ADL, and whether there should be any uncrossable lines in comedy.

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