Advantages: Laugh out loud throughout Disadvantages: A bit more raw and less polished than later performances
...of a good link. Where Eddie Izzard differs is in his ability to randomly switch to another subject, make no sense at all, and have the audience (me included) in stitches.
I have not had the luck to see the man live, so I have just had to settle for the DVD instead! Unrepeatable was Eddie's 1994 routine which ran at the Albery Theatre for seven weeks. It was a completely new routine for him, with new material hilariously combined to have the audience ... ...tour of the theatre, before Eddie is announced and he enters onto the stage and begins to completely and utterly flummux the audience.
Yet it's all material we can relate to. His style is very casual, with him often looking up and away, appearing as if to struggle to find the next topic to talk about. It's not as refined as later performances, but this is, naturally, part of the appeal of him as a stand up comedian, making him seem more human and ...
pmcds 06.06.2009
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Advantages: Laugh out loud funny Disadvantages: None at all
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 ... ...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 ...
pennii 23.08.2001
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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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