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.
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00:00Moments like this, I mean, you were here walking carpets with your mentors, being nominated for an Emmy for your own variety special.
00:06Crazy, and also I got to know some of these people, like Chris Kelly over there is like one of my favorite writers, and I'm fucking like, you know, Louis, sorry to curse, Louis Black is like, came to see my show early, Alan Cummings is a really good buddy of mine, and like, and a lot of this has happened through the community of the show, and it's like, it's just a beautiful,
00:27Look, my show has had a really long, wonderful road, it started like, you know, with nine people in a pub above a shoe store, and it just grew and grew, and went to Broadway, but it happened because a lot of the people on this carpet, and the people that, a lot of people that supported me are here, so it's like a really crazy thing,
00:46and I brought my parents and my best friend, Benj Pasek, who just E-got it himself, so it's like, yeah, Benj is like, oh, one Emmy, you know, it's not true, he's very grateful, but yeah, it's crazy, I can't believe it, I mean like,
01:01I mean, you've made it.
01:03It is, and Carol Burnett, like I got to know Carol a little bit now, like, what more could I possibly want?
01:08An Emmy.
01:10An Emmy, that's right, but yeah, it's really wonderful, and you know, I'm sure people here feel this, I don't know if they say it, but like, you know, you never think something like this would happen to you, so it's really cool.
01:26I mean, congratulations on all of your success, what do you want people to know the most about you, now that your special has really, really taken off, and gotten the Emmy, all the different, we're gonna speak that into extension, so you never know, you might walk away with the Emmy, but what do you hope people are able to take away from your Variety special that you really, really wanted to get across when you start developing it?
01:48You know, my show is about a Jew, me, who goes to this meeting of neo-Nazis in Queens, Louis was it, no, I'm just kidding, I'm kidding, I'm joking, I'm joking, and the show is kind of about what happens when we sit down with people who are like fundamentally opposed to us, and what we learn about ourselves, and I think given what's going on in the country right now, given what's going on in the world, I like the idea that people who are fundamentally opposed to one another,
02:17maybe even hate one another, can have productive conversations, I think it's a really interesting way forward, I don't see it represented in media as much as I'd like, and I think it's been one of the reasons the show has gone this way, I mean, make no mistake, it's not a good thing to be a Nazi, but having conversations with people who hate you, I think that's gonna become necessary, we get further and further apart as a country, our environment gets more and more rancorous, so that's the thing I'd like people to take away, that there is an appetite for content about that,
02:46that there's an appetite for conversations like that, and yeah.