‘Just For Us’ Star Alex Edelman On How The Lessons He Learned At The Edinburgh Fringe Festival Evolved Into An HBO Hit — Fresh Face
deadline.comAlex Edelman, the comedian behind HBO’s Just for Us special, was studying in London when he walked into a pub in Soho. “About a month in, I was at the bar and this lady was standing next to me when a fella on the other side of me grabbed my ass,” Edelman says. “I look at the lady and I said ‘Can you help me?
This guy’s got a rather firm grip on me.’” The lady? Phoebe Waller-Bridge. “We’ve been friends since then. I stayed on Phoebe’s mother’s couch.
She’s a big part of my artistic incubation; I went to the first previews of Fleabag, I saw it more than a dozen times in small rooms with less than 30 people.
Then I saw it in Edinburgh where it was a phenomenon.” Edelman similarly created something that played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that has recently become a phenomenon.
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