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We were beside ourselves with excitement. So much of Eddie Izzard’s stuff is “had to be there” humor. Like his whole discourse on the Church of England and how that somehow inevitably leads to “cake or death”. You really just have to see the whole thing. He’s not a punchline-type guy. How can one describe why the phrase, “What is it, Sebastien, I’m arranging matches …” is HILARIOUS? You just have to see the whole thing!<\/p>\n
So to describe to you why, at one point last night, I was laughing so hard tears were streaming off of my face … will be rather difficult. First of all, there was his acting-out of the “Thou must not covet thy neighbor’s ox” commandment.If you’re familiar with him, you know he starts with something concrete – and then basically plays it out to its logical (and insane) conclusions. Like his re-enactment of the building of Stone Henge. “Oh, we’re building a Henge, are we? Lovely! It’s not far, is it?” Or also his whole re-enactment of dinosaurs (imagining what it would be like if dinosaurs had morality, and he suddenly became a T. Rex letting someone else go ahead of him in line) and God basically just doodling whatever the fuck he wanted on a sketch pad – “He will weigh 10 tons, he will have three horns on his head, and he will be a vegetarian …” He also did a re-enactment of Hannibal and the Alps and the elephants – and he did it IN LATIN<\/i>. The guy is fucking crazy. He discoursed upon the Stone Age, and he did a whole thing about hunter-gatherers – and suddenly he became the best berry-gatherer in the world – (see, it’s all “had to be there”) – and other people in the tribe had to stand around holding baskets ready to catch the berries because they were coming so quickly. He did a whole thing on giraffes doing charades. hahahahahaha And I was very pleased with his bit on spiders. And how scary they are. “And so straight men and lesbians are left to deal with it … We may hate spiders, but gay men and straight women hate them more<\/i>.” He’s obsessed with Wikipedia. He looked up the word “spoon” for us, onstage. That became a running gag. I never realized how hilarious Wikipedia is … just the concept<\/i> of it.<\/p>\n
The guy is brilliant. We were in the FIRST ROW. He was right there!<\/p>\n
No more transvestite garb. He looked kind of like a scrubby old English professor. Blazer, black T shirt, jeans.<\/p>\n
I’m basically in love with him. It was so so so fun. I’m SO glad to have seen him in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We were beside ourselves with excitement. So much of Eddie Izzard’s stuff is “had to be there” humor. Like his whole discourse on the Church of England and how that somehow inevitably leads to “cake or death”. You really just … Continue reading