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Alex Edelman is a comedian, actor, and writer. He is known both for his solo shows—three, all award-winning, sell-out hits in London’s West End and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival—and for his TV writing. His first solo show, Millennial, won the 2014 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, the first American show to do so since 1997. Edelman has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Conan, and written on shows like The Great Indoors (CBS) and Jenji Kohan’s Teenage Bounty Hunters for Netflix. He is the creator of Peer Group—a show about young people—on Radio 4 and his special Live From the BBC is available on Netflix internationally. At the start of the pandemic, he served as the head writer and executive producer of Saturday NightSeder, a star-studded 70-minute special, posted on YouTube, that has so far raised $3.5 million for the CDC Foundation (COVID-19) Emergency Response Fund. His comedy album Until Now was named one of the best comedy albums of 2020 by NPR’s Bullseye. He has two differently sized feet.