‘Just for Us’ Comedian Alex Edelman Isn’t Interested in Playing the Victim

As Alex Edelman will tell you in his new HBO comedy special, Just for Us, he grew up in “a really racist part of Boston called…Boston.” It’s a place he has great affection for, to be clear. “Boston is probably the most progressive place in the United States, and also extremely regressive,” he says on this week’s Little Gold Men. “It’s extremely money and working class. It’s extremely Jewish and not Jewish. It’s extremely urban and also, just a few miles outside of it, ex-urban and then downright agrarian. It...