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Alex Edelman’s ‘Just for Us’ Off Broadway Review: A Jewish Comic Crashes a Meeting of Neo-Nazis

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The stand-up comic Alex Edelman is not ordinarily known for cutting-edge material or political satire — his go-to joke about Brexit, he admits, was to redub it “The Great British Break-Off.”Instead, he’s an observational comic with an absurdist streak in the vein of Mike Birbiglia (who serves as a presenter of his new show).

In “Just for Us,” which opened Wednesday at Off Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre, Edelman taps into much heftier material than his usual riffs about Koko, the sign-language-using gorilla.

That’s because Edelman, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household in Boston and endured 12 years of yeshiva schooling, decided that he wanted to face down one of the most hostile audiences any comic could imagine.

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