In “The paper” The long -awaited simulator of the “The Office” drill, Alex Edelman plays the intrepid accountant/reporter Adam Cooper, part of the team in charge of reliving the local newspaper “El Toledo de la Truth”. Edelman was also a writer and consultant producer of the program, who premieres in Peacock on September 4 with the 10 episodes, and says that the project gave him “the weird thing in Los Angeles”: Routina.
“It was a really wonderful routine,” he adds.
On Sunday Funday, the people of Los Angeles give us a play per game of their ideal Sunday in the city. Find ideas and inspiration about where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on weekends.
Of course, routines must end and new routines must be created. Edelman, who won an Obie and a special Tony for his stand-up show “Just for Us”, about attending a Nazis meeting as an orthodox Jew (became the original HBO comedy special “Alex Edelman: only for us” Therefore, he won an Emmy), is back on the way and added new dates for his current program, “What are you going to do”? In his free time, he is working in a non -fiction book, “I don't belong here.”
On the perfect Sunday, for Edelman, he is always a bit different, with woven consistency currents. (A “recommendation machine” is called himself, which feels precise). There is always a walk. There are always friends involved. There is always food. There are many laughs. But despite all the ones tested and true, the novelty is also important. “I guess my headline is Sunday to try new things,” he says.
This interview has been slightly edited and condensed by length and clarity.
7 am: wake up and go for coffee walks
On weekends, I like to walk. Apparently, the only thing left on planet Earth is to drink coffee. Do you know that our whole life revolves around a series of small silly coffees? I only drink espresso drinks, which is a fact about me, which is very boring. I could walk among coffee stations, like a man traveling between Oasis. I will walk and I will get to All the time And I know, do I want coffee or can I get to Maru? And when I get to Maru, do I get coffee? Or can I get to the camel? And then I will arrive in Camel, which is now called Mangos? And I'm like, do I get coffee or go to Dinosaur? And then, do I make a coffee or I'm going to Tartino either Lalo In Silver Lake or LamillThat is also in Silver Lake. He feels like a long time, but that's just one hour on foot.
I could also have a breakfast. I like Telegram either Friends and family – A favorite are olive oil eggs. I spend a lot from my money at all times. I like to get what they call “the ship” I don't know exactly what it is, but it's really good.
8 am: inscribe a little
I like to park on Telegram or Maru; You can find a small corner and really rhythm.
10 am: walk and have an adventure
I am an enthusiastic weekend hiker. And I have hiking friends. My friend [TV writer] Jenji [Kohan] And I began to do something in the pandemic where every weekend we were going to walk somewhere and eat somewhere. I will walk with Jenji or my friend Rebecca or my friend Morgan. We will get it later. Walk with someone, you complain. It's a lot of fun.
There are some very, very beautiful walks around Los Angeles. I use alltrails to track them. If we are doing a walk outside the city, we will go to Santa Barbara or Orange County for one of the heavy beach walks. Or any walk with the word “punchbowl” in them. And we will go to Charlie Brown farms right after.
We walk and eat and there is always an adventure there. We use the obscure atlas and we will see things, as, I heard that there is this strange store where this guy who does things with pop eyelashes or whatever. One of my favorite things is to look at a small modern house in the middle of the century that I can never pay. If there is a Lautner or Neutra or Frank Lloyd Wright house, we will sometimes take a Schlep just for the house, even to see from the street. One of the walks in Malibu, solstice, has an old man Paul Williams house. It's like a ruin.
1 pm: lunch time
We like to go to the San Gabriel Valley and eat in Chengdu taste In Alhambra either Bistro Na's. I can't eat pork or seafood, so what falls inside the electric fence, my Judaism that returns. Every time we drive south for a walk, we like to go Pho 79 In the Anaheim area, or Garden Grove maybe. And I get something vegetarian or chicken or something.
2:30 pm: Thriffing and A Bocher
Second -hand stores in Pasadena, those places are so good. In the center, we always stop in the old place of Mochi, Fugetsor-Do. They have existed for 117 years, even more. I think they opened in 1903. On Sundays, sometimes the line can be long, but it is worth waiting. I like records of arciris color and strawberry stained. A thousand percent fruity or sweet and without jelly due to my Judaism.
4 pm: catch up with the books
As we are in the center, I will go through the Last bookstore. I also really love Skylight. And I love a library used. I love navigation.
I like to read and listen to music on a Sunday. For a while, I was rationing my friend Taffy Akner's book, “Long Island's commitment.” I read a couple of pieces every Sunday until they ended up. I just bought a couple of plays from Kimberly Bellflower and Noah Haidle. And I am reading “Miss May does not exist” by Carrie Coato, about Elaine May, whom I adore and I really met at a friend's house.
7 pm: pizza and movie night in Phil's
I have a friend, Phil, who sometimes makes his film on Sunday. His house has a small pizza oven. Phil will have pizza -style pizza GirlLOVE. And we will see movies in a projector. I saw “a new sheet” there and enjoyed it a lot, talking about Elaine May.
9:30 pm: a stand standing
At the end of the day, my favorite activity is to make a comedy standing. There are many good places to act in Los Angeles. So it would make a late place in TThe comedy store, THe Lyric Hyperion, Factory laughs either Dynasty typewriter.
11 PM: Night food
I was late, especially for angels. And there is no place to eat too late at night in Los Angeles, unless you venture in Koreatown, where there are Dan Sung Sa. I love to eat late and hey, we have four deep meals, but it's fine. EITHER Scar It is open until 11:30 on Sunday. AND Same Thai The sunset is open until 11. They do something called Khao Soi, which is really difficult to find in many places. So sometimes I have a really night Khao.
12 am: displacement, reading, perhaps a phone call or two
I am awake a little. I look, I will move. I will move until I am driving, which should not. Or I will call friends in London who are waking up, standing comics. My friend Josie Long was in Glasgow, and sometimes I will call her, or I will catch my friend Isobel, who is a composer, who is in Europe all the time. But in my ideal situation, I am asleep at 1. I will read this book by Lizzy Goodman called “Know me in the bathroom” Or I will listen to this podcast called “Search Engine” By PJ Vogt, and a kind of drift.
