(audience clapping) - Oh my God, Alex.
Now, wasn't your show supposed to run
for like a limited time?
- Yeah, it was supposed to run for three weeks Off=Broadway.
And it's been beautiful,
we ran for like nine months, which was crazy.
(audience clapping) - So a show
that's supposed to run for three weeks
ends up running for nine months, and then that show
ends up getting chosen to go on the Broadway stage.
- Yeah, it's the craziest, coolest, most wonderful,
most surreal experience in my entire life.
- I mean, Alex's show is something that really
talks about maybe you have people that don't like you
because of certain reasons.
- Yeah, I'm an Orthodox Jew
and I went to this meeting of White nationalists in Queens,
and eventually-
What a fun reaction from you already.
(audience laughing) Yeah, fantastic.
And eventually one of them's like,
"Sorry, but this guy's a Jew."
And I'm like, "Yeah, I'm a Jew."
And that's what the show's about, basically.
Actually, I've basically just given away the whole show.
(audience laughing) But, yeah,
that's what happens.
- No, I'm glad you gave it the context
because it does not give the show away,
and it made me ball my eyes out.
- Yeah.
Drew's there, she's crying.
I'm like, "Oh my God, did I upset her?"
It was really sweet.
But yeah, people have really reacted to the show
in a way that's taken me by surprise
in such lovely ways.
And so many of my heroes have come to see it,
which has been so cool.
- Which, let's see, who's come to see your show?
Because also people are saying
that you're like the new "Seinfeld".
How do you feel about that?
- I mean, Seinfeld came to the show
and I don't think Seinfeld would say that, honestly.
(audience laughing)
I mean, yeah, that was when Jerry came to see it,
which was so cool.
And afterwards I asked him for, I was like,
"Do you have any notes?"
And he was like, "I don't have any notes."
And I was like, "You're gonna get in the car
and look at Jessica and be like, 'I like that, but.'"
And he went, "Okay, I've got one note."
- [Drew] Great!
- And he gave me the note.
And Steve Martin, when Steve Martin came.
- [Drew] These are the people going to see Alex's show.
- Yeah. (audience clapping)
- What was his reaction?
- Well, Steve was really so nice.
He offered like a little joke.
So if you don't like the show, it's co-written
by Steve Martin.
- And Jerry Seinfeld.
- Yeah, and Jerry Seinfeld.
- Now, there's a "Fever Pitch" connection.
- [Alex] Oh my God.
- 'Cause you wrote for the Red Sox?
- When I was a kid, (laughs) I wrote for the Red Sox
for a couple years.
I was like a speech writer,
and I wrote the Red Sox Kids Newsletter.
- That is the cutest thing ever!
- I know, it's really, really, really crazy.
And one of my assignments was
I covered the "Fever Pitch" premiere.
And so when I was 16 we met at the "Fever Pitch" premier.
I was like a child,
I don't think I looked at you at all.
I was looking at my shoes like I owed it money.
(audience laughing) It was just like,
I was so nervous and I had no social skills.
They're like, "Why don't we just have this kid
who has never met a single person
outside of of his synagogue or his school, you know,
interview Jimmy Fallon
and Drew Barrymore." (audience laughing)
- Okay, well there was a magazine, a story.
You sent our producer a magazine.
- No, I didn't send your producer.
This producer came up to me,
I was standing by myself.
- [Drew] At the "Fever Pitch" premier.
- It's like the most vivid memory of my life.
He went, "Hey, little kid."
And I had this "Entertainment Weekly" with you
and one of the Red Sox players,
I thank Johnny Damon, and Jimmy Fallon on the cover.
And my mom said, "You're going to the 'Fever pitch' premier.
Can you get them to sign it?"
And I was like, "Well, I was gonna ask Jimmy and Drew
to sign this magazine for my mom."
And he is like, "I'll get it signed."
And he took the magazine and he never gave it back to me.
- [Audience] Aww. - And then didn't you send
him an email? - sent him an email.
I sent him a follow up email.
Why are you showing the email? (audience laughing)
- So you get the picture.
This is Alex Edelman,
the little kid from "Fever Pitch" premier.
Thanks so much for taking that
"Entertainment Weekly" for me.
Let me know if you get the chance for Drew to sign it.
It would be a total honor.
- I was 16 years old, Drew.
Okay?
And I looked like I was 11.
- He never sent it, did he?
- Drew?
- So, I got you one.
- Oh my God! (audience clapping)
That's so nice.
Oh my God, this is so sweet.
(audience clapping)
- Everybody, Alex's show, "Just For Us"
is making its Broadway debut June 22nd.
Catch it if you can.
We'll be right back.
(bright music)