(He has had long-term romantic relationships with the female comics Katherine Ryan and more recently, Hannah Einbinder, though they broke up a month ago.)
They talked comedy and Brace later asked him if he could give him notes.
Brace was especially alert to the dramaturgy of a show, insisting on cutting jokes that worked if they weren’t worth the lost momentum.
If Edelman riffed too much, Brace told him: You’re on the jazz tonight.
The previous month, when in Boston, he knocked on the door of the 94-year-old comedy legend Tom Lehrer, whom he did not know, just to talk.
Persons:
Edelman, Katherine Ryan, Hannah Einbinder, “, Josie Long, it’s, Brace, Phoebe Waller, Billy Crystal, Eric Bogosian, Susan Stroman, Robin Wagner, Edelman deadpanned, ”, Tom Lehrer, ” Edelman
Organizations:
New York Public Library, Performing Arts, Lincoln Center
Locations:
Boston, London, British