Stick a fork in me, I'm done. I'll be leaving Ciao very soon to concentrate on the kids and the busi...
Stick a fork in me, I'm done. I'll be leaving Ciao very soon to concentrate on the kids and the business. I wish everyone the very best in life, I've loved it here and I'll miss you people xxx
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Eddie Izzard: Campaigner for equal clothing rights (and why shouldn’t it be socially acceptable for men to wear dresses in the street and not just in the cock rock band?) and funniest man on earth. Originally a wannabe actor, he decided upon comedy to get back at his drama teacher, who made him play the clarinet instead of Romeo. He doesn’t do telly (much) but his own brand of ‘talking bollocks on top of bollocks’ has enabled him to write a terrible sitcom about cows and act in various films and stage plays, as well as winning lord knows how many awards for comedy.
Unrepeatable, I believe, is his second video, and it’s one of 7 weeks of sold out shows at the Albery Theatre (That sentance made a lot more sense an hour ago). His attire is black leggings, a stripy shirt with the kind of highly starched collars that Harry Hill would kill for and a little bit of slap on the old face. It’s the Prince school of fashion. The squiggle is the only man in the world who could get away with wearing a cat suit/lacy cardi combination and Izzard is the only human being who can wear leggings so long after the 80’s.
He begins with a monologue about adverts in the blatant 50’s compared with the subtle 90’s (Jam made by Nazi’s out of bits of mud and spit? Or jam made by groovy people?). Which brings him to washing powder adverts and washing your clothes at the launderette or at home: Where jealous blue underpants infiltrate a whites wash by sneaking in with a dopey shirt.
One subject doesn’t always run smoothly into the next, but he makes it all sound seamless in a self-deprecating way. Going from Prince Charles, politics, the British visiting foreign countries and demanding sausage, egg and chips, and secret service men- Who skilfully shadow the president looking cool, calm and mean until an actual rumpus kicks off and they’re all arms and legs everywhere and ‘Get ‘im Kev! Get ‘im!’
He’s into people who shout for a living, cats drilling, dogs playing piano, Doctors pretending to take your blood pressure and playing with jumpy spiders and those dickhead men who hang out in groups of five shouting at women. In Swindon they hang about round the shop and stare the clothes off your body rather than having the imagination to think up an insult. Also fascism in the schoolroom, Jesus of the Christ family and his friends Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, Jeremy, Sebastian, Mary, Mungo and Midge.
And Swimming tests, Bees and wasps, Horror films, Dracula and James Mason plus the Star Trek phenomenon. All very, very hilarious and he ends by talking about the Star trek phasers and the other settings they should have after kill and stun: Limp, bit of a cough setting, depression, bad eyesight setting, ice cream van nearby setting, sudden interest in botany, water in ear after swimming and oven left on at home.
His comedy hero’s are Billy Connolly, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Monty Python and the Goons. If you'd rather hack your own limbs off than listen to the nonsensical rantings of a man influenced by these people, give him a chance before digging out the hacksaw. His comedy is all his own and after the death of the late, great Bill Hicks, Izzard is the new king of comedy. And here ends my cheesy thieving of the title of that film.
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Pennii, I'm shocked, we totally and unreservedly agree on something! Eddie started out in the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-On-Sea, East Sussex. Now I know that 'cos it's my home town, and I know Eddie too. He was sacked and re-instated sometimes a dozen times a day when he started out, and used to be rather offensive to some prudes, good job he has calmed down so much these days. He used to start out by asking the female pensioners how much they fancied him, and then tell them about his cross dressing, the local Mayor got a lot of letters. Thing is, so many of them were supportive. Cheers, David.
james.bridgeman 28.09.2001 12:45
Hi, please don't be offended at an H rating, I totally agree with your op and love the vid myself. But I think maybe you give away too many of Eddie's jokes for people who haven't seen it. Nonetheless, always good to see someone singing the praises of a very funny man indeed. Cheers, JB
Fairy_Kisses 18.09.2001 16:52
Thank you so much for making my day, just reading about izzard makes me laugh, and your op made me belly laugh.
Thanks. I had my arm put in a sling today and feeling p.....d off, you have cheered me up. Julie
This DVD was recorded one night at the Albert Theatre in March 1994, when Eddie Izzard was ... more
playing a limited seven week sold-out run of his celebrated stand-up show. A completely new show from his previous thirteen week run at the Ambassadors Theatre t...
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