Alex Edelman, the comedian and actor who won an Emmy for his 2024 HBO/Max special Just For Us and a special Tony for the original Broadway staging, laments what is effectively the loss to comics of a newly politicized Kennedy Center.
“For me and the performers I know, it doesn’t make sense to play the venue now unless you’re avowedly and solidly Trump-supporting,” Edelman, who currently writes and stars in Peacock’s The Paper, says in a guest column for The New York Times. “By my count, only three headlining comedians performed at the Kennedy Center this year, all vocal Trump
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