Like all great comedians, Eddie Izzard doesn’t tell jokes; he weaves funny stories. The well-honed skill that sets him apart is the art of presenting two people conversing with each other, even though he’s the only one on stage. Either that or he’ll suddenly stop and debate with himself about how a particular line should’ve gotten a better laugh but didn’t, or worse—one that shouldn’t have gotten one but did.
If I had to describe this hilarious stand-up concert, it’d have to be done in one very long sentence, because that’s how Eddie Izzard presents it. It used to be that Johnny Carson was the only man I knew who could get lost in the middle of a monologue and then make you laugh your head off listening to him try to dig his way back to where he started. Eddie has that very same talent.
I found myself unable to stop laughing; especially when he reveals and illustrates his conclusion that the legendary Greek and Roman Gods had to have been invented by a man with an extremely large bag of weed and an awful lot of time on his hands.
Other topics that are delivered in rapid-fire fashion include the similarities between transvestites and super heroes because they have to change clothes before they help people. He’ll get hopelessly distracted trying to explain what dark matter is while giving an astronomy lesson on the planet Mars complete with movie sound effects. That leads to a story of how archeologists in Rome dug a huge rectangular hole searching for ancient artifacts, but then didn’t find anything, so they announced they’d found a famous ancient swimming pool.
His admiration for firemen wanders off course when he speculates that they throw cats out the window of fire engines in place of a broken siren, leading to an explanation of the Doppler effect. That leads to his embarrassing problem of not proofreading text mistakes until after he’s hit send and by then it’s too late.
Article comments
1 - Jet Gardner
Are you aware that video articles aren't shown on the home page?
2 - Jet Gardner
I bet you didn't know that most drag queens are heterosexual?
3 - Scott Deitche
Love Eddie- looking forward to seeing this one. I don't know if anything can compare to Dressed to Kill, but I've heard this show was fantastic. I was laughing from the review alone.
4 - Jet Gardner
Scott, I didn't think anything could beat "Dress to Kill" either but this does!
5 - Jet Gardner
I'm finding it hard to believe that I'm the only Eddie Izzard fan on this whole website!
6 - JOANNE OWENS
u r not alone. going 2 England 2 C Eddie @ Brighton Centre from Arizona. I'll think of u while laughing my ass off.
7 - Jet Gardner
Thanks Joanne!
8 - KimberlyL
Definitely not the only Izzard fan! Believe me. I love his work so much. I'm really jealous of everyone that will get to see him on his next tour!
9 - Geena
You're definitely not alone. I love Eddie and really hope his popularity picks up in the states because this is one comedian people should not miss out on.
10 - Jet Gardner
Thanks Geena and Kimberly and happy thanksgiving. The DVD is well worth buying
11 - A Geek Girl
I love eddie izzard. Looking forward to this one. Thanks Jet.
12 - Jet Gardner
You're welcome, The only problem you'llhave with it is that you can't watch it only once!
13 - FCEtier
Miss Bob reviewed the "making of" documentary of this show and loved it! We're both looking forward to seeing this as well.