Alex Edelman makes me laugh before he even sits down at our lunch interview.

I arrive early to a noodle bar in Columbus Circle where I’ll ask the comedian about his upcoming stand-up hour and his role in Peacock’s “ The Paper .” There are only a handful of people seated at the restaurant, but Edelman doesn’t want to take any chances. So, when he arrives, he looks around the half-empty eatery and, from the host’s stand, loudly calls out my name to the whole restaurant. I turn to face him, and, as if there was no other way to identify his dining companion, he says, “There you are.”

This spot is a favorite of Edelman’s, despite the fact that half the menu is dotted with symbols indicating pork and shellfish, two foods he can’t eat, he says in an exaggerated Talmudic twang, “Because Juuu

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