Alex Edelman
Alex Edelman 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, 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 New York University. His father is Elazer Edelman, a biomedical engineer, physician, professor, and inventor. His brother is Israeli Olympian Adam Edelman.
He has performed stand-up since the age of 15. He first performed in the UK in 2012 and in Australia in 2015.
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. His 2018 show, Just For Us, was nominated for the Best Show award at the Edinburgh Fringe. He has appeared in the UK on television shows such as The John Bishop Show, , Live from the BBC, Roast Battle, and contributed several anecdotes about his experiences as a comedian to the 2015 book Off the Mic, by Deborah Frances-White and Marsha Shandur. He has done a BBC Radio 4 comedy series called "Alex Edelman's Peer Group".
Edelman was the head writer for Saturday Night Seder, a virtual celebrity Passover seder held during the COVID-19 pandemic.Personal life
Edelman had an on/off relationship with Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan.
