Alex Edelman on What He Hopes People Take Away From Variety Special 'Just For Us' | Emmys 2024 - video Dailymotion

Hollywood Journal

Alex Edelman chats with THR at the 2024 Emmy Awards red carpet and talks being nominated for his show 'Just for Us.' Plus, he reveals what he hopes people take away from his variety special.

Transcript

00:00Like moments like this, I mean you were here walking carpets with your mentors

00:03being nominated for an Emmy for your own variety special.

00:05Crazy, and also I got to know some of these people like Chris Kelly over there

00:09is like one of my favorite writers, and I'm fucking like, you know, Louis, sorry to curse,

00:13Louis Black is like, came to see my show early, Alan Cummings a really good buddy of mine,

00:18and like, and a lot of this has happened through the community of the show,

00:22and it's like, it's just a beautiful, like my show has had a really long, wonderful road,

00:29it started like, you know, with nine people in a pub above a shoe store,

00:33and it just grew and grew, and went to Broadway, but it happened because a lot of the people on this carpet,

00:39and the people that, a lot of people that supported me are here,

00:43so it's like a really crazy thing, and I brought my parents and my best friends,

00:48Ben Passick, who just E got it himself, so it's like.

00:51Congrats to him.

00:51Yeah, congrats to him.

00:52Ben is like, oh, one Emmy, you know, it's not true, he's very grateful,

00:56but, but yeah, it's crazy, I can't believe it, like there's Louis Black, I mean like.

01:01I mean, you're, it's, you've made it.

01:03It is, and Carol Burnett, like I got to know Carol a little bit now,

01:06like what, what more could I possibly want?

01:08An Emmy.

01:09Yep, an Emmy, I was going to be an Emmy, that's right.

01:11But yeah, it's really wonderful, and you know, I'm sure people here feel this,

01:17I don't know if they say it, but like, you know, you never think it,

01:23something like this would happen to you, so it's really cool.

01:25I mean, congratulations on all of your success.

01:28What do you want people to know the most about you,

01:31now that your special has really, really taken off,

01:34and has gotten the Emmy, all the different,

01:36we're going to speak that into existence, you never know,

01:38you might walk, might walk away with the Emmy,

01:40but what do you hope people are able to take away from your variety special,

01:44that, that you really, really wanted to get across when you start developing it?

01:48You know, my show is about a Jew, I mean,

01:51who goes to this meeting of neo-Nazis in Queens.

01:54And, Lewis was it, no, I'm just kidding, I'm kidding.

01:56I'm joking, I'm joking.

01:58And the show is kind of about what happens when we sit down

02:01with people who are like fundamentally opposed to us,

02:04and what we learn about ourselves.

02:08And I think given what's going on in the country right now,

02:10given what's going on in the world,

02:12I like the idea that people who are fundamentally opposed to one another,

02:17maybe even like hate one another, can have like productive conversations.

02:20I think it's a really interesting way forward.

02:22I don't see it represented in media as much as I'd like.

02:25And I think it's been one of the reasons the show has gone, you know, this way.

02:29I mean, make no mistake, it's not a good thing to be a Nazi.

02:32But like having conversations with people who hate you,

02:34I think that's going to become necessary.

02:37We get further and further apart as a country,

02:39our environment gets like more and more rancorous.

02:41So that's the thing I'd love people to take away,

02:43that that's like, that there is an appetite for content about that,

02:46that there's an appetite for conversations like that.

02:49And, yeah.

Alex Edelman on What He Hopes People Take Away From Variety Special 'Just For Us' | Emmys 2024

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended