'I can't do it anymore': Alex Edelman on ending 'Just for Us,' his hit show about antisemitism
LOS ANGELES — Not everyone wakes up to an avalanche of antisemitic tweets and then decides to attend a meeting of white nationalists in New York City. Because, well, not everyone is Alex Edelman, who has recounted the evening hundreds of times onstage in his hilarious and thought-provoking hit show "Just for Us."
And after spending six years revising his incisive 90-minute set (with the help of numerous comedy legends) and performing it all over the world, he's ending it with an encore run in Los Angeles — just before the April 6 release of the corresponding HBO special, filmed during the show's run on Broadway last summer.
"Part of the reason this show is ending is because I can't do it anymore," he told The Times. "Doing it can be a wrenching experience, but I've loved it."
Ahead of his final seven performances of "Just for Us" at the Mark Taper Forum, the comedian participated in an exit interview of sorts, where he talked about the trick to recounting the time his Orthodox Jewish family celebrated Christmas, the loss of , and the to-do list for starting a new show — one that possibly addresses
