Alex Edelman
@AlexEdelman
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Comedian. JUST FOR US is on @HBO. loves ramen and black & white cookies and strange novels.
Boston/NY/LA
Joined April 2009
can remember every inning of this game like it was yesterday
21 YEARS AGO, TONIGHT 🗓️ @KMillar15: "Don't let us win tonight!" 🗣️ The rest is history 📚 (@MLBNetwork, @MLBONFOX)
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Just endless respect for Rachel Goldberg-Polin. How many public people so affected have had hearts big enough to hold everyone?
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Going to be incredible.
This is the story of President James Garfield and his greatest admirer Charles Guiteau, the man who would come to kill him. Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen, Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin, Bradley Whitford and Shea Whigham star in Death By Lightning. Premiering November 6.
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Just horrible. Awful.
🔴 Everything we know about the Manchester synagogue ‘terror’ attack Suspect shot dead after killing two and seriously injuring three in car and knife attack Read more ⬇️ https://t.co/IR03pISzfg
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Oh hey man. We were just talking about your Flaw — the immutable thing you’re only vaguely aware of that makes you unworthy of true love. Anyway what’s new
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Hot off the press: The Good Life by Mike Birbiglia (@birbigs), his newest @NetflixUK special that’s “a fantastic story, affectingly and assuredly told” (Rolling Stone). In this hilarious and heartwarming one-man show, he poses the question: “What can I teach my daughter?”
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answer is simple: selling a ticket for more than its face value should be illegal. then there is no chaos and you give us back the control instead of creating a bizarre free market of confusion amongst the audience who we love and care for.
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If you’re Jewish and not with your family or congregation today, remember that you are part of a community that is not bound to a physical location. An eternally unified people, impossible to divide, committed to a set of undying principles. Shana Tova.
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This, always this.
Just a quick reminder that the most important speech to protect is the speech you hate the most.
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it does protect them it’s the whole point of the thing
Former VP @Mike_Pence: "The First Amendment though does not protect entertainers who say crass or thoughtless things as Jimmy Kimmel did in the wake of a national tragedy...I would have preferred that the chairman of the FCC had not weighed in."
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There is not a single thing in here that Jimmy Kimmel said that is a lie. What a fucking travesty.
Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know. This is also what Jimmy Kimmel said the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated: “Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one
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The joke I would like to make about the Kimmel situation is one I, apparently, can only text to close friends.
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In the hours leading up to the decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say, senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not
“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson told Rolling Stone on Wednesday. The spokesperson did not clarify the reason behind the decision. Details: https://t.co/XKOSXcfKgo
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It’s not that a company fired a comedian for saying something - it’s that the US government explicitly pressured them to. There’s no censorship equivalent, at least in my lifetime.
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The fact that the whole snowflake thing has completely reversed is very funny but also it’s one of the main things thats making me question my own sanity
Nexstar Media, one of the largest U.S. TV station owners, said it will pull ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live" after his remarks about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. "Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in
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I hope we all recognize that late night tv hosts are being held to a higher standard than our elected leaders and the current regime
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