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Who Is Alex Edelman? Meet the Comedian Who Sparked Dating Rumors With Jessica Alba
While the Oscars red carpet arrivals are the talk of the evening, finding out which celebrities left the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty together is the chatter for the morning after. Actress Jessica Alba sparked dating rumors with comedian Alex Edelman after they were photographed leaving the party together, with his suit jacket wrapped around her shoulders.
Daily Mail shared photos of Jessica and Alex on March 4, 2025, almost one month after the Fantastic Four actress filed for divorce from estranged husband Cash Warren after 16 years of marriage.
Life & Style gathers information about Alex following his head-turning late night with Jessica.
Alex Edelman Is a Comedian
After growing up in Massachusetts in a Jewish household, Alex moved to New York to study English at New York University.
Alex continued his career in comedy after graduating in 2012 and took his talent abroad when he performed his first show in the U.K. later that year.
The performer made his big break in 2014 during the premiere of his 30-minute show Millennial. Alex won an Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer following the project’s success later that year.
In 2015, Alex released a follow-up show called Everything Handed to You, which he previously said “is basically like Millennial 2.”
“There wasn’t a ton of explicit stuff about millennials. I made it a lot more intricate because I just wanted to try, but it’s never changed: I think people follow someone they know can do consistently good stuff. Young people, old people …,” Alex told AV Club at the time.
In 2022, Alex’s first off-Broadway show, Just for Us, debuted and gained rave reviews. The play made it to Broadway the following year and landed its own special on HBO.
Alex won his first Emmy award in 2024 for HBO’s Just for Us in the category for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special. When Alex learned he was nominated for the award, he shared a thoughtful message thanking his loved ones, collaborators and fans for contributing to his rising success.
“To @hbo and @streamonmax? I could not appreciate all the faith and support you put behind this more. And thanks for The Larry Sanders Show. It rules,” he wrote via Instagram in July 2024. “I also want to acknowledge my closest friend and longtime collaborator Adam Brace, who passed a few weeks before our show started on Broadway. He’d be thrilled and probably a little bit cider-drinking about this. I miss him every day and thought of him all morning.”
Peacock subscribers can expect to see more of Alex after he landed a role in a new project that is a “mockumentary” of the hit series The Office. Alex is also the series writer alongside Gbemisola Ikumelo and Eric Rahill.
Alex Edelman Spotted With Kaia Gerber Days Before Jessica Alba
Days before Alex left the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty with Jessica, he was spotted chatting with Kaia Gerber. Daily Mail shared photos of the pair chatting after her performance in the play Evanston Salt Costs Climbing at Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles.
The link-up caught the attention of eagle-eyed fans who wondered if Kaia and Outer Banks actor Lewis Pullman were still spending time together.
“Lewis is someone she’s known peripherally through the Malibu circle for years, he’s a quality guy with a celebrity pedigree so he’s someone her parents feel good about,” a source exclusively told Life & Style in a story published on February 17, 2025, noting that Kaia “isn’t going to race into anything, but she does seem to be excited about him.”
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