Everything Handed to You

Last year, Alex Edelman, a New York-based, Boston-raised comedian, did an hour of comedy called Millennial at the Edinburgh Fringe. That hour won a Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer and enjoyed nice runs and performances in London, Australia, New York, Los Angeles, and Sweden (!).

The follow-up show, Everything Handed to You, has garnered even more unanimous acclaim. It sold out its entire run at this year’s Fringe and earned a bushel full of great reviews – it was the second best reviewed comedy show at the entire Festival.

The last hour was about neurotic and terrified young people. This one is about one neurotic and terrified young person in particular (Alex) and another dude that he’s met and also his brothers and aw hell mostly it’s jokes and stories. A guy calls to ask you to write this PR stuff but it’s all just jokes and stories, really.

A lot of work has gone into this. On the jokes and stories and even the miscellany like the title.

Also, some other credits if you need them: He's been opening for Simon Amstell a bunch this past year, which was really fun even though Simon is vegan. He’s also opened for Patton Oswalt this past year, and toured with Eddie Izzard in Berlin and Moscow (!). He was a New Face of Comedy at Just For Laugh’s Festival in Montreal – which is like a big deal to comedy people and apparently two of your grandparents – nominated for Best New Show for EHTY in Leicester at their comedy festival and, TV-wise, he’s been on Comedy Central’s Comics To Watch and The John Bishop Show recently. He wore a suit on the latter and his girlfriend said he looked handsome in his suit.