All Things Izzard

[jess]

http://www.frontrowking.com/comedians/eddie%20izzard/eddiebw-330.jpg

I can't believe no one took that bait...

I like the fact that you have a unisex thread here... that is coolness.

and to make up for Eddie...
http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/a/images/Pierce.Brosnan.jpg

[Hedwig]

http://www.frontrowking.com/comedians/eddie%20izzard/eddiebw-330.jpg

I can't believe no one took that bait...




Oh, now you've done it. Posting a picture of Eddie Izzard is like shaking a bag of Kibble to call a very hyperactive and yippy chihuahua into the kitchen.

[Magdlyn]

http://www.frontrowking.com/comedians/eddie%20izzard/eddiebw-330.jpg

I can't believe no one took that bait...




Oh, now you've done it. Posting a picture of Eddie Izzard is like shaking a bag of Kibble to call a very hyperactive and yippy chihuahua into the kitchen.

I swear, I didnt join this board just to post pix of Eddie.

[His Noodly Appendage]

The next one gets edited to Britney Spears, or worse.

My thread. My rules. :p

[Preno]

You do make a rather compelling argument for allowing blatant abuses of mod power there, HNA.

[jess]

hell, Brittany is hot.

[shipload]

hell, Brittany is was hot.

:fixed:

Past tense. She is no longer what she once was.

[Bright Life]

At least it wasn't pictures of that horrible Eddie Izzard. Much rather look at the pedophiles and "catwomen," wouldn't we?I think we've already seen every picture ever taken of Eddie. :p

[Hedwig]

At least it wasn't pictures of that horrible Eddie Izzard. Much rather look at the pedophiles and "catwomen," wouldn't we?I think we've already seen every picture ever taken of Eddie. :p

I fear the challenge you might have just laid down. :eek:

[Magdlyn]

I think we've already seen every picture ever taken of Eddie. :p



I fear the challenge you might have just laid down. :eek:

You guys are just begging me for it!

[Magdlyn]

Thanks for the present! :)

[Magdlyn]

It's from an interview. Male journalist asks him:

Why did you get into standup?

To get shagged.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Je%20Suis%20a%20Standup/jss15.png

And did you.... do you?

Yes [lifts glass]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Je%20Suis%20a%20Standup/jss14.png

Thank you. [drinks]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Je%20Suis%20a%20Standup/jss13.png

He's such a flirt.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Je%20Suis%20a%20Standup/jss1.png

[His Noodly Appendage]

Split from here (http://talkrational.org/showthread.php?t=1323)

[Magdlyn]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Je%20Suis%20a%20Standup/jss44.png

[Bright Life]

Wow, a thread dream come true for Mags!

[Daisy]

Well, why not?

[GodfreyTemple]

There's naught wrong with Mr. Izzard.

For shame HNA.
He's ball-bouncingly funny.

And I never truly enjoyed the work of James Mason before seeing one of Izzard's performances.

[Magdlyn]

HNA was offended by the number of pix of Eddie I posted at another board (on a "beautiful men" thread), and wanted to head me off at the pass.

I guess some ppl think you can get too much of a good thing. :dunno:

[ravenscape]

What's wrong with a little excess?

[Preno]

HNA everyone was offended by the number of pix of Eddie I posted at another board (on a "beautiful men" thread)fify

[Magdlyn]

What's wrong with a little excess?

I have no idea.

[hecaterin]

Preno, not everyone. Some. Get over it.

Yeah, Magdlyn is a little obsessive; but many of us quite like Eddie; and many just don't care.

[GodfreyTemple]

There are far worse things to be a little obsessive about.

Personally, I believe how one feels about Eddie Izzard can be a telling indicator of their overall sociability.

[Magdlyn]

Thanks.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/riches1_001_sized.jpg

[GodfreyTemple]

I want it understood that should I for any reason litter any threads with say...a barrage of Anime pics...that I shall be granted a reasonable amount of leeway.

Also, The Riches is an excellent series.

[Magdlyn]

Also, The Riches is an excellent series.

Yeah! It just keeps getting more and more exciting, complex, suspenseful. I love the changing role of Dale, for instance.

I saw Eddie's standup in NYC in March. In 12 days I am going to see him in Boston and then again in June in Tampa! :notworthy:

[Bright Life]

Jesus, woman? Are you rich?

Also, have you met him?

[damian]

gross.

am i allowed to say that here?

[GodfreyTemple]

Yes.

But to what are you referring, precisely?

[GodfreyTemple]

Also, The Riches is an excellent series.

Yeah! It just keeps getting more and more exciting, complex, suspenseful. I love the changing role of Dale, for instance.

I saw Eddie's standup in NYC in March. In 12 days I am going to see him in Boston and then again in June in Tampa! :notworthy:

SHH!

I'm only on the first season.
No spoilers please. :eek:

[Magdlyn]

Jesus, woman? Are you rich?

No. I am cutting back on dining out and other luxuries for a while to pay for it!




Also, have you met him?

No. I've only been a fan since '06, so this is my first tour (he hasn't toured since '03).

[Bright Life]

So are you gonna try and meet him? Show the ticket stubs to the crew to show what a big fan you are?

[Magdlyn]

So are you gonna try and meet him?


Maybe.

[GodfreyTemple]

How amazingly coy and noncommittal of you.

Do you not have a plan?

[Goldie]

I don't know him... have seen him, in that he is familiar. I think, right off, that he is attractive. If he is a cross-dresser... DUDE! lets talk heels and D&B! more power to him. I'll talk fashion with anyone! :)

[Magdlyn]

I don't know him... have seen him, in that he is familiar. I think, right off, that he is attractive. If he is a cross-dresser... DUDE! lets talk heels and D&B! more power to him. I'll talk fashion with anyone! :)

He's attractive, all right.

How amazingly coy and noncommittal of you.

Do you not have a plan?

Sometimes he comes out the stage door for autographs and photos. Seems you have to wait an hour or more til the guests in the dressing room let him go.

[Magdlyn]

Pix from last night's show in Rhode ("is not an") Island.

http://flickr.com/photos/barefoot-mama/

[GodfreyTemple]

How amazingly coy and noncommittal of you.

Do you not have a plan?

Sometimes he comes out the stage door for autographs and photos. Seems you have to wait an hour or more til the guests in the dressing room let him go.

Best of luck with snaring the elusive Izzard in the wild.

[Magdlyn]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Riches%20Promos/13447996madpoet6969715200764025PM.jpg

[Magdlyn]

Sting operation? Attempt to steal bees botched

:D

Globe Staff / April 19, 2008

NATICK - The crime scene was peaceful and bucolic, bordered by fields of new green seedlings and a brook full of ducks; home to scampering piglets and bleating baby goats.
more stories like this

But it was in Natick this month, on the rustic, well-kept grounds of the town-owned organic farm, that someone tried to steal an increasingly precious commodity: a hive full of honeybees ramping up for honey season.

The thief made off with a heap of expensive beekeeping equipment, one of the farm's beekeepers said, but the bees were lucky. Something apparently spooked - or stung - their would-be abductor, who left the farm without taking the full hive he or she had prepared to steal by moving it off its foundation and nailing its sections together.

"They've been through a rough start to the season," Ryan Williams, a beekeeper at Natick Community Organic Farm, said yesterday as the bees buzzed in and out of holes in their hive. "It stresses them out to be moved around and left out in the elements like that. . . . But they're tough little creatures."

A Natick police spokesman did not return a phone call yesterday. One of the farm's directors has said she believes the thief is a beekeeper, because of the skill used to prepare the hive for removal from the property.

Honeybees have become more valuable in recent years, as their ranks have been decimated by a mysterious, devastating affliction known as "colony collapse disorder," which has wiped out swaths of the nation's hives since it surfaced in 2004.

The resulting pressure on the industry has led to beehive thefts around the country, especially in California, where thefts have cost beekeepers hundreds of thousands of dollars and where legislators have proposed stricter civil and criminal penalties for stealing or damaging beehives.

In New England, where the number of amateur beekeepers has skyrocketed in recent years, such crimes remain rare, state and county beekeepers' groups said.

"I've never heard of anyone trying to steal bees, and I've been in this business for 25 years," said Mary Wilson, owner of Bee Busters, a bee- and insect-removal company in Acton who also keeps bees for a hobby.

The collapsing hives have drawn attention to honeybees' importance to the food supply. Without bees to pollinate crops, said Williams, the Natick beekeeper, many of the foods sold in supermarkets could not be produced.

Maine blueberry growers, for example, use about 50,000 hives of honeybees to pollinate their fields each spring and have faced sharply increasing rental prices for the hives because of the bees' scarcity. At its summer peak, an active hive contains some 50,000 bees who busily collect nectar from flowers to make honey.

At the 27-acre organic farm in Natick, which is open to the public, a handful of parents brought their toddlers yesterday to play with the piglets. Honey made by the resident bees is sold at the farm, along with organic vegetables, herbs, milk, meat, maple syrup, and flowers.

Williams said he does not believe anyone who knows the farm well would steal from it. But the shock of the crime has left wariness in its wake.

"There are going to be people on the lookout now," he said.

[Bright Life]

Someone wants his coffee full of bees...

[Magdlyn]

Yeah, you got it. BTW, could you edit the title of this thread to "Eddie Izzard fans," please.

Eddie's standup videos will be on BBCAmerica today starting at 4PM (the article below seems to have the times wrong). So if you're not doing anything and haven't seen them in a while, or ever, check em out! Of course, BBC edits all the "fucks" out and cuts them down to an hour each, but it's still good.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/tvschedule.jsp?showsList=127

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=740740

... in the unlikely event that I had to pick one stand-up to take with me to a desert island, it would have to be Izzard. And I'm not alone: No less an authority than John Cleese once called this 46-year-old Englishman "the lost Python."

Although Izzard has been amusing in movies ("Ocean's Thirteen," "Across the Universe") and impressive in FX's "The Riches," nothing can touch his stand-up act.

Often dressed in drag - heels, patent-leather pants, wrap-around tunic, spiky frosted hair, plenty of lipstick and eye shadow - for what he calls the "executive transvestite" or "male lesbian" effect, Izzard neither looks nor sounds like anyone else.

Like Oliver, he has great fun with history, mocking European and American imperialism with sardonic glee. But Izzard plunges into his subject so deeply - acting out, say, the Pilgrims' casual brush-off of the Indians, followed by the hungry Englishmen slinking back to the tribe months later for some of that suddenly attractive corn and squash - that both he and the audience are transported. When he re-emerges, says, "Hmm, yes, well . . . ," and veers off on still another wild tangent, the effect is dizzying, in the best possible way.

I don't know of anyone who could be as funny as Izzard is on Henry VIII, Martin Luther, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. If Hitler jokes offend you, by the way, you might want to fast-forward through his riff on Der Führer's combination double suicide and honeymoon with Eva Braun, though I must say it would be your loss.

The BBC America marathon features his one-man shows "Unrepeatable" (2 p.m.), "Definite Article" (3 p.m.), "Glorious" (4 p.m.) and "Dress to Kill" (5 p.m.), all recorded from 1994-'99. Sadly, there's nothing from this year, when Izzard has reportedly taken to the stage with readings from Wikipedia articles including "herring," "jam," "Kabuki," "chutney," "Ho Chi Minh" and "J.R.R. Tolkien."

[Isolde]

Eddie Izzard eyes possible career in European politics

NEW YORK - British comedian Eddie Izzard, whose acting career is taking off, is eyeing yet another possible career — politician.

Izzard, who plays Wayne Malloy in FX's "The Riches" and who just finished shooting "Valkyrie," starring Tom Cruise, told Newsweek he sees himself getting into European politics at some point.

I don't know how much of this I can paste due to copyright issues, so here's the link to the full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080421/ap_en_ot/people_eddie_izzard;_ylt=Ahb2KAUqHc4h6ufV4n0mCL.s0 NUE

[Magdlyn]

Thanks for posting that, Isolde. Eddie is very pro-European union! Pro-universal health care, anti-monarchy, anti-religion, etc.

I don't know why, I thought this thread was still called Pictures of Eddie Izzard. I like this title, Jess. Thanks. :yourock:

[Matty]

fuck, Eddie cant become a politician. What with him and that dude from midnight oil, that will be two politicians worldwide that i have respect for.

MY political viewpoints sum up basically as "All politicians are self serving corrupt wankers" and having cool people that i like and evern respect a little become one gives me cognitive dissonance. I suppose at least i know there would be two people world wide i COULD vote for were i eligible.

He wasnt so much the black sheep of the family as much as the huge fucking scary monster of the family" POssibly my favourite of his throwaway lines.

[Magdlyn]

Nice one, Matty.

If you ever need help with finding an Izzard line, go here and click on the stuff/fun stuff/transcripts.

http://auntiemomo.com/cakeordeath/index.html

If only England had an MP that looked like this.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Dress%20to%20Kill/bigd2k.jpg

But, it's more likely he'll look like this

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Mostly%20Blokey/downingst.jpg

[Matty]

At the risk of being selfish and wanting all the cool threads all to myself (mwahahahaha)
Isnt this now more suited to Media than After Hours?

If an after hoursy mod type wants to shift it over i promise i'll look after it!!
Any objections? It'll get more coverage there methinks.

[Bright Life]

Thanks for posting that, Isolde. Eddie is very pro-European union! Pro-universal health care, anti-monarchy, anti-religion, etc.

I don't know why, I thought this thread was still called Pictures of Eddie Izzard. I like this title, Jess. Thanks. :yourock:

You're welcome. ;)

[Magdlyn]

It SAYS edited by Jess.

:p:p:p:

[Bright Life]

We all try to make sure this thread is always running at it's highest capacity.

[Wordy]

I realized when I saw the StarGate SG-1 series that I found Michael Shanks looked rather cute. Me being slightly homophobic felt embarrassed about that so I tried to look at Richard Dean Andersson instead. Wow, he looked cute too. Suddenly me started to see cute men all over the place. I had to take a big dose of Evangeline Lily to get back to my usual preferences. :)

Izzard is not my style though. Sorry!

[Bright Life]

I found a sig-sized Eddie pic for you!


http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/50/35793.jpg

[Matty]

oooh tracie.........

:D

[Magdlyn]

I found a sig-sized Eddie pic for you!


http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/50/35793.jpg

Aw! That's a little cutie, but girl, I've got several in my collection that are that size. I thought I couldnt have an image bigger than :D that.

[ravenscape]

I think the limit on the number of lines is 5. An image that doesn't take up more than 5 lines of size two font text should be fine

this
high
is
about
right?

[Magdlyn]

oooh tracie.........

:D

My name... is not... Tracey!

[Magdlyn]

I think the limit on the number of lines is 5. An image that doesn't take up more than 5 lines of size two font text should be fine

this
high
is
about
right?

http://talkrational.org/showthread.php?t=114&page=3

post #66 :(

[ravenscape]

Hm.

I don't usually mess with sigs but I know they're fun for a lot of people.

I think the size image bright life posted would probably fly no matter what.

[Magdlyn]

But I have a bad reputation and everyone hates me. I might get put in dentention with all the bad kids. Oh well, they're the best dancers!

[Magdlyn]

“Blue underpants in the white wash! Get them out! Let’s smash the glass!”

And the blue underpants are going, “I’m draining, I’m draining…” And if all your clothes came out a vibrant blue, it would be fine, wouldn’t it? But your clothes tend to come out a color that’s called “Pants Left In Wash.” And people know, and they point, “Yeah, yeah…” And then they stab you! Apparently, sometimes, you know… Yeah…

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Eddie%20Icons/tiny.gif

[jess]

Thanks for posting that, Isolde. Eddie is very pro-European union! Pro-universal health care, anti-monarchy, anti-religion, etc.

I don't know why, I thought this thread was still called Pictures of Eddie Izzard. I like this title, Jess. Thanks. :yourock:

'Twasn't me...

I was merely the first post split...

[Matty]

But I have a bad reputation and everyone hates me. I might get put in dentention with all the bad kids. Oh well, they're the best dancers!

yeah but they eat worms. :)

[Magdlyn]

'Twasn't me...

I was merely the first post split...


Apparently it was Bright Life. You edited your post (now the OP) just to add that, um, non-Eddie person.


But I have a bad reputation and everyone hates me. I might get put in dentention with all the bad kids. Oh well, they're the best dancers!

yeah but they eat worms. :)


Maybe at your school!

BTW, Matt, this thread is still in After Hours instead of Media. Is that so I can post all my naked Eddie pix? And talk more about how shaggable he is?

When I went to NY to see him, I stayed at the Chelsea Hotel. I ended up finding out the rm I stayed in, 325, was the room he lived in back in the late 90s, for several weeks. The doorman said he'd bring home all kinds of women back then. And if all it took was the slap he had on, he, the doorman, was willing to buy out the whole Mary Kay line.

[jess]

I think Eddie could bring home bucketsfull of women because of who he is, not what he wears.

And I don't mean the 'fame', I mean that comfortable in himself stuff I've chatted about on this forum...

[Magdlyn]

He's "awfully confident for a bloke in a dress." But he wasn't always. He had to learn.

[Bright Life]

We've gone back and forth on sig pics. AFAIC, those teeny ones are okay.

[jess]

yeah, but he was probably pretty confident before he tried to pull off (on?) a dress as well...

[Magdlyn]

We've gone back and forth on sig pics. AFAIC, those teeny ones are okay.

Good to know!

yeah, but he was probably pretty confident before he tried to pull off (on?) a dress as well...

Well, he talks about it in his standups. Have you watched them? His 20s were pretty rough, his self- esteem was low.

[jess]

Only Circle and D2K.

I dunno... body confidence and self esteem are not linked. Does that make sense?

Sexiest (most body confident) man I know has an awful self image...

[Magdlyn]

Only Circle and D2K.

I dunno... body confidence and self esteem are not linked. Does that make sense?

Sexiest (most body confident) man I know has an awful self image...

Well, if you have time, I'd like you to expand on that thought.

From Eddie's standup, and articles I read, it seemed it was a long process throughout his 20s for him to get comfortable with career, his transvestism, his sexuality, how he wanted to dress, how confident he was in talking to and meeting women, getting them in bed, etc.

As per my 3 pic screencap on the first pg here.

[jess]

Well, this is really something I 'just noticed' in myself--- I mena, my definition of 'sexy' has always been 'confident', but I hadn't realized how far that stretched.

So I'm exploring this myself.

Note: confident/=smarmy.

[Matty]

BTW, Matt, this thread is still in After Hours instead of Media. Is that so I can post all my naked Eddie pix? And talk more about how shaggable he is?

No its because i'm not an AH mods, cant move it from here myself, and we gave the suggestion a few days in case anyone objected. If that's not the case and everyone is happy that this thread would be more at home with the other comedy threads etc , then we'll do it post haste as soon as i get a AHM or M@L on the job.,

I promise to look after it to the best of my ability when its comes home to Media, though. !!

as for the other bits, i know you are joking but talk about shaggability as much as you want, no rules there. Naked pics, hmm, i for one have no real desire to check out his junk, comedy genius or not!! Thanks for the offer, all the same. :D
.

[Magdlyn]

But his perfect perfect bum! It's a thing of beauty, like Michangelo's David.


OK, avert your eyes, do not click attachment:

[Matty]

i think the general idea is that any such "potentially offensive" things go in [hide] tags.

to be hoest i thought he'd be better exfilioated than that!!

[Magdlyn]

i think the general idea is that any such "potentially offensive" things go in [hide] tags.

Is it possible to put an attachment in a hide tag tho? I can't put that one in photobucket, and I dont have any other photosharing accts.
Besides, this whole forum is marked NSFW.



to be hoest i thought he'd be better exfilioated than that!!

You see hair? You're not supposed to even be looking that close! ;) Besides, Eddie dresses blokey now, and I can't imagine him being a big fan of waxing that- area- in any mode he's in.

[Matty]

http://www.talkrational.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=30&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1209047965

Yup you have the pic tags inside the hide ones and its all good.

[Magdlyn]

That's different from doing an attachment tho.

[Magdlyn]

Going to see Eddie TONIGHT!!!

A friend of mine went last night, his first tour date, sent me a description, and wow, the set and his outfit and the show sound just fantastic!

If anyone wants, I can provide details.

He spent part of yesterday playing football (which we Americans call bananas) on Boston Common in the chill rain. What a Brit.

:drool:

I am so excited!!!

[jess]

details happily accepted...

[Matty]

cool. colour me jealous.

[Magdlyn]

: paints Matty green :

Jess, he wore a long tux coat with tails and a red lining over a tshirt and jeans, trimmed goatee, sideburns and eyeliner.

The set was decorated like a cave, with curtains hanging with different ancient writing on each one. The back curtain was decorated with hash marks like a prisoner would mark on his cell wall.

Eddie was running around, dancing and bouncing in place between bits. He has more ability now, b/c he's not wearing stilettos, to give an athletic show.

My gf scanned and posted the 18 pg program to our fan club bd. Lots of half naked pix from the Stripped tour poster photoshoot.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/stripped-1.jpg

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Eddie%20Icons/eddie24.jpg

[GodfreyTemple]

Careful.

You'll get green paint on all of us.
Then we'll all be green.

Tourists will mistake us for Martians and start casually dissecting us for fun.
And then we'll not get our coffee...full of bees.

[BWE]

hell, Brittany is hot.

Well, she's apparently easy. That's about half of hot right there.

[Magdlyn]

We had a great time at the show last night. I don't think anyone here is going to go see his tour? Don't mind a bit of spoilers? Stop reading now if you do.

Unlike what my friend said, the stage set didnt appear cavelike to me. More like tan stone that had been carved, like the inside of a pyramid. There were just a few hash marks at the bottom of the back curtain, but like she said, each side curtain had different heiroglyphics or writing (arabic, hebrew, egyptian) or cave paintings on them.

Topics covered:

Science vs the Bible on how the earth began, God doesnt care or doesnt exist, dinosaurs going to church and singing from a hymnbook, triceratops looks fierce but eats carrots, God just sitting back in a damp cloud and humming for 200 million yrs. Finally monkeys and then humans.

Humans needing speech. At first it was all just vowels. Scrabble games with just vowels. Hunter gatherers, and how hunters are all sexy and ripped and run around looking fantastic in loincloths. Gatherers picking berries, bored to death.

Later, farmers. Not sexy at all. They need to raise animals just to break up the boredom of plants growing just that much every day.

Giraffes not having speech and needing to mime to each other when vacationing tigers are around. Charades between giraffes to get across "Tiger."

Somewhere in there, how ppl that live near oceans are cooler than ppl in the middle of countries. They vote differently and when the shit hits the fan, we can all hop in a boat and go back to Europe. "Hi Mom and Dad! We're back!" Back to the original Plymouth. Europe has things figured out now and the US is back to where Europe was before the Pilgrims left.

"Shit hits the fan" is a saying which has come about since electricity was invented. Mimed shit hitting a non-electric fan. Then an electric one.

Then he started in on civilizations. Egypt (nothing much except big pointy things to put dead pharaohs in, and irrigation). The Greeks he likes better. The Spartans were all, [deep voice] "Woof," the men, women, kids and sheep, all tough. The sheep take on the wolves and intimidate them by shaving themselves with rusty blades in a tough way.

But then the Spartans all disappeared b/c they were so tired from all the fighting!

He talked about Xerxes in the movie 300, his weird outfit, and referred to something British ppl say when someone shows up in a weird outfit: "What did you come as?" Xerxes, embarrassed, taking off his panthers.

The Romans liked to move ducks around. Viaducts, aquaducts. In the US, if you have a metal detector, you find bottle caps and bits off of a belt or something. In Europe, tons of Roman coins, swords, Viking helmets!

Almost everyone on earth is either worshiping nothing or worshiping the wrong god, if only one god is the real one.

Noah built a boat b/c it was raining a lot. he didnt need a god to tell him to build a boat. It was raining like crazy, it just made sense to build a boat. 40 days and 40 nights? That's 40 days. The scribe was just trying to stretch it like you do with an English essay at school. Another guy built a restaurant, you dont hear about him b/c he drowned.

Noah just put his family and his barnyard animals on the boat. Not every animal on earth. "You try it!" Wouldnt work.

Moses. Shouldnt have told anyone he got his info from a burning bush. Ppl snickering at Moses. Out in the wildnerness, he went up a mt and was gone so long the ppl started smelting metal into the shape of a fried egg.

Intelligent design is not intelligent. Proof: appendix. Mimed the appendix scanning the food going down for grass and being disappointed. Then exploding like a bomb.

The audience wasnt too rowdy. Just happy and clapping appropriately.
But ppl did come and go, even in the front rows. They just couldnt hold it til the end of his show? Sheesh. Maybe they shouldnt have been chugging those huge glasses of beer. Grrr. He didnt comment tho.

But about midway thru the show, he was in the middle of a bit, and all of a sudden he looks down at the edge of the stage, and says, "What is THAT?" The ppl in front of him said something we couldnt hear, and there was some back and forth. Then he said, "It's a purse? It's right in my sight line. Would you put a purse on the edge of the stage during a Shakespeare performance?

Oh, Leaertes, I will just go to my mother... what is THAT?"

He went on in this vein a bit more. "D'you want to put your feet up on the stage too?" But all in his mild charming voice. It was really funny and I bet those ppl were humiliated! Asstards!

Later in the show, he was talking about religions and their value. He was saying, "I just like to cherry pick..." and then suddenly off to our left, the sound of a large exit door slamming. So Eddie said, "I like to cherry pick and-- slam doors apparently! What was that? Sounded like a fridge slamming."

:p

[Magdlyn]

So, my friends and I (there were 5 of us) and about 20 other ppl waited out on the chilly, windy but at least not rainy st for just over a 1/2 hr and then got called back inside to meet Eddie. We all got autographs and photos and he was just charming and relaxed and as nice as could be.

[Comfortably Numb]

This thread seems to have taken a different turn and is more deserving of the Media forum so off to Media it goes.

Comfortably Numb, After Hours mod

[Matty]

Thanks CN.

[Comfortably Numb]

Thanks CN.

No prob. Sorry I wasn't on it sooner.

[GodfreyTemple]

Interesting.

It turns out not to have been so much a paint-brush as a paint-bomb.
KABOOM!
Everyone's green.

*envy*

Sounds like a great show.

[Magdlyn]

Thanks for reading my review, Godfrey!

I am assuming it'll be on DVD some day so everyone who couldnt go can see for themselves. He's a genius.

I'm glad he's a cult hero tho, so there were only 25 ppl waiting to meet him afterwards and not hordes of screaming fans.

Just watched the finale of the 2nd season of his FX drama the Riches, which I so hope is renewed for a 3rd season. Damn that writer's strike.

[GodfreyTemple]

Isolde and I shall be fiercely awaiting that DVD.

...

Presuming one can wait and be fierce for any length of time.

Person A: What are you doing?

Person B: Grr.

Person A: Pardon me?

Person B: I'm waiting...Grr.

Person A: And you're growling at me, why?

Person B: I'm doing so...fiercely.

Person A: *looking around* Okay, who replaced my spouse with Christian Siriano from Project Runway? Also, those are nice pants.

[Magdlyn]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Stripped%20Tour/eddie3.jpg

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Stripped%20Tour/stripped-2.jpg

Just a couple pix.

[Magdlyn]

reviews, blogs and a couple bootleg videos!

http://auntiemomo.com/cakeordeath/stripped.html#reviews

The vids there are from Providence RI just before the official tour started.

Here's a youtube from Wednesday night.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DxeHGE2jPjs

[Bright Life]

Are the videos gone already?

[Bright Life]

a few missing bits...

There was a bit about how many Americans don't care for Eddie until they've seen "Dressed to Kill" or have background" in British humor, i.e. Monty Python.

I mentioned "Black Adder"

Indeed. I hate Mr Bean with a passion but most Atkinson stuff is goiled,
blackadder being top of the heap IMO.

---Quote (Originally by The Bishop of Bath and Wells)---
Never have I encountered such foul, mindless perversity. Have you considered a
career in the church?
---End Quote---

(if you have other missing posts, you can drop them in with an idea where they went and I'll try to put them in order.)

[Magdlyn]

Is there some kind of bug going on? I see some of my posts are missing from this thread and at least one other thread as well. It's very disconcerting!

[Matty]

part of the software upgrade wiped a couple days worth of posts unfortunately.

Aleithis has a contrite apology posted in the bugs forum.

[Magdlyn]

Found it, thanks!

Gratuitous Eddie pron

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/StrippedDC8May08.jpg

[Magdlyn]

Many images on Flickr of current tour

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/eddieizzard/

[jess]

me.

I'm the nut who doesn't like Monty Python.

MadTV had Phil LaMar doing a break where he was eating a donut. He said: Fat and sugar: it's what comedy is made of.

To me, to be funny, you need to have the right quantity of each and they have to be mixed well. To me, Monty Python is heavy on the lard, and had huge clumps of powdered sugar and unmixed fat.

Black Adder (since it was mentioned) is a fine and delicate mixture with just a touch of cinnamon and raisins added for extra flavor.

It's way easier for me to say I have no sense of humor (since that's what people say about me anyway) than it is to explain.

Eddie is great. Python is terrible. I honestly can't think of a single sketch I've enjoyed. And we have the entire fucking series on DVD.

I just chatted with the Python lover in the house, and apparently, I like Yellowbeard and the Crimson Assurance Company bits. I also really liked the 'we're not responsible for this movie' in the credits.

Hurm. I guess that makes it obvious it's not a kneejerk reaction on my part. I've tasted a bit of it to know it's not to my liking.

[Magdlyn]

I know this woman who has seen Eddie several times on this tour already, DC, Philly and is going to NY too. Eddiehead! Like a Deadhead. Well, she goes and meets him after each show and chats him up. She got some good news about Eddie's FX drama The Riches. Her words:


I did ask him if there had been any word on the Riches coming back and he said that they were waiting to hear from a guy (his exact words) but he was sure that they were coming back. That were going to do 7 seasons even if the channel didn't want them back. Then I told him that we were doing a writing campaign to the channel. He said that was cool but that I shouldn't worry.

Yay! :D

[Magdlyn]

What, no Riches fans? If you havent seen it, you can, for free, at hulu.com

another pic from current tour, crowd control (he did this during our show and I was thrilled to join in!)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/StrippedDCCrowdControl.jpg

[Isolde]

What, no Riches fans? If you havent seen it, you can, for free, at hulu.com

Godfrey and I just finished watching it. I'm glad they're going to make a third season - otherwise I'd have to hunt someone down and find out what was supposed to happen.

The last couple of episodes seemed kind of rushed though - did they try and cram everything in to the shortened season instead of pushing stuff off until later?

[Magdlyn]

They may have. I hate that the season was so short. I was just reading that all dramas have lost viewership with their returning shows. I guess ppl feel they lost the thread of their shows. Comedies are not doing as badly with viewers.

Between computers and reality TV shows, it's a whole different ball game for dramas now.

[Magdlyn]

Cincinnati got a special taste of British comedy on Friday, May 9 when Eddie Izzard visited the Taft Theatre on a stop of his new American tour, titled Stripped. The award-winning stand-up comedian and actor is back on the road to discuss his ideas on religion, history and everything in between.

His rambling tangent of a monologue bounces from the idea that all of the Ten Commandments can be replaced by the philosophy "treat others as you wish to be treated," the Battle of Thermopylae, the origins of the Stone Age and how Scrabble is a nightmare for the dyslexic.

The packed house was rightly enthusiastic about Izzard, giving him a standing ovation before he even spoke a word. He started the show by announcing that he had been taking a more proactive approach to researching, by using Wikipedia, which he said can be "true-ish." He continued by ad-libbing a history of Cincinnati, which the audience pretended to go along with.

His shows often involve his views on history, of which he is very knowledgeable, and his command of various languages. When in France, Izzard performed the entire show in French, which he has said was bewildering to the French. The main themes of the show were religion and history, specifically the existence of God, which is a theme that Izzard touches on in a lot of his shows.

He discussed his ideas about Jesus, who he theorizes was not the son of God, but just a guy who did some "really good work." He finished up the show by suggesting that the cast of Big Brother should be sent to the moon, because astronauts are too unemotional, and what space travel needs is some "nutters."

:) :D

[Isolde]

In the last stand up we watched, Eddie also talked about dyslexia. What made it so funny to me was that my son (9 yo) had done the exact same thing - during "I Spy", he "spied something beginning with S", which after five minutes of my guessing everything in the auditorium, turned out to be "ceiling."

He agrees with Eddie that there shouldn't be a "g" in gnat and the way we spell "cough" is ridiculous :)

[Magdlyn]

Eddie loves letters, spelling, languages, and Scrabble

recent joke I found on blog of someone who saw him in Cincinnatti.

Your wrestling is the WWF: The Wrestling Wildlife Fund.

Oh, you've pinned him, congratulations, here's a panda!

*Gasp* did he hit you? You've got two black eyes.

I'm a fucking panda.

This joke has evolved since I saw him Apr 29! :)

[Magdlyn]

Try to guess which of the quotes below originated with Monty Python's Flying Circus and which were hatched from the mind of Eddie Izzard.

1. "And Henry VIII, a big hairy king, went up to the Pope and said, 'Mr. Pope! I'm gonna marry my first wife, then I'm gonna divorce her. Now, I know what you're gonna say, but stick with me. My story gets better. Second wife, I'm gonna kill her! Cut her head off. Ah, not expecting that, are we? Third wife, gonna shoot her. Fourth wife, put her in a bag. Fifth wife, into outer space. Sixth wife, on a rotissamat. Seventh wife, made out of jam. ...' And the Pope is saying, 'You crazy bugger! You can't do all this, what are you, a Mormon? It's illegal.'"

2. "Cake or Death?"

3. "I'm quite warm in this stick of celery, thank you, Senator Muskie."

4. "Indignant NASA officials to Neal Armstrong after he brought back rocks from the moon: 'We wanted diamonds, sherbet or a squirrel with a gun!'"

5. "But for sheer pointless behavior, you've got to admire Brian Broomers, the battling British boy who for two weeks has been suspended over a tin of condemned veal."

6. "What I'm talking about is blasphemy! Blasphe-you! Blasphe-everybody in the room!"

7. "'We are wise men.' 'Well, what are you doing, creeping around a cow shed at 2 in the morning? That doesn't sound very wise to me!'"

8. "And the National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people, people do,' but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think standing there going 'Bang!' -- that's not going to kill too many people, is it?"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/Program/proged.jpg

[jess]

Try to guess which of the quotes below originated with Monty Python's Flying Circus and which were hatched from the mind of Eddie Izzard.

1. "And Henry VIII, a big hairy king, went up to the Pope and said, 'Mr. Pope! I'm gonna marry my first wife, then I'm gonna divorce her. Now, I know what you're gonna say, but stick with me. My story gets better. Second wife, I'm gonna kill her! Cut her head off. Ah, not expecting that, are we? Third wife, gonna shoot her. Fourth wife, put her in a bag. Fifth wife, into outer space. Sixth wife, on a rotissamat. Seventh wife, made out of jam. ...' And the Pope is saying, 'You crazy bugger! You can't do all this, what are you, a Mormon? It's illegal.'"


Eddie
2. "Cake or Death?"
WTF? Eddie!

3. "I'm quite warm in this stick of celery, thank you, Senator Muskie."


Python: see that lump of fat right there?

4. "Indignant NASA officials to Neal Armstrong after he brought back rocks from the moon: 'We wanted diamonds, sherbet or a squirrel with a gun!'"

Eddie

5. "But for sheer pointless behavior, you've got to admire Brian Broomers, the battling British boy who for two weeks has been suspended over a tin of condemned veal."

Python. four lumps.

6. "What I'm talking about is blasphemy! Blasphe-you! Blasphe-everybody in the room!"

EDDIE!

7. "'We are wise men.' 'Well, what are you doing, creeping around a cow shed at 2 in the morning? That doesn't sound very wise to me!'"

Eddie? Could be a nicely mixed Python bit though.... I'd need more context.

8. "And the National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people, people do,' but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think standing there going 'Bang!' -- that's not going to kill too many people, is it?"

Eddie

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/Program/proged.jpg

How'd I do?

[Monad]

7. "'We are wise men.' 'Well, what are you doing, creeping around a cow shed at 2 in the morning? That doesn't sound very wise to me!'"

Life of Brian?

[Magdlyn]

Good job, you guys! You both win a cookie! A preacher cookie.

And in Izzard news today:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=azOua9JopqHg&refer=muse


Talking Mouse, Hairy Dwarf Rescue `Narnia' Sequel: Rick Warner

May 16 (Bloomberg) -- "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,'' the sequel to the 2005 blockbuster "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,'' features centaurs, fauns, werewolves and other mythical creatures from C.S. Lewis's classic children's novels. What I'll remember most is the talking mouse.

Reepicheep is a swashbuckling rodent who brandishes a mini- rapier and sports a red plume on his head. As voiced by British comic Eddie Izzard, he perfectly embodies the gallantry, wonderment and cheeky humor that has endeared the Narnia tales to several generations of readers.

The rest of the movie isn't so endearing...

But of course, the kids and I are going today! Sounds like Eddie steals the show. Doesn't he always?

[Isolde]

I saw he's doing a voice in this movie too:
http://www.igor-movie.com/

But I can't figure out which one from the trailer...

[Magdlyn]

He plays Dr Schadenfreude, one of the mad scientists.

Saw Caspian and it was good. Coulda used more Eddie. Of course.

[Magdlyn]

A comedian for intellectual atheists. Eddie's in Chicago.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-eddie-izzard-ovn-0517may17,0,1697291.story

To see Izzard live is still to be reminded that the notion that the great American public likes only inane, personality-driven entertainment is nothing more than a creation of those who wish to keep us stupid so as to better sell us the people and stuff they want us to buy.

Right now, people are craving intellectual heft and substance. You could smell it in the packed Chicago Theatre on Thursday night. Izzard's fascinating latest show is mostly a caustic meditation on the illogicality of religion—it's like watching a live version of Christopher Hitchens' "God Is Not Great" or an unusually funny lecture by Richard Dawkins. Not that Izzard is a Rottweiler for Darwin. His sense of the deeply absurd is in fine shape. Watching the cogs turn in Izzard's well-coiffed skull, I found myself marveling at the restless determination of the human brain to make sense of the nonsensical. Which, in another show, would be an argument for religion.

Not here. During his two-hour monologue Thursday, Izzard spent time pondering how the only place a giraffe can hide is behind another giraffe and, in a rant against intelligent design, impersonated an appendix frustrated from the lack of grass to digest.

And he ended his show with a side-splitting, Pythonesque routine based entirely on how the biblical commandment that one should not covet one's neighbor's ox is inherently incompatible with free trade. He'd have you think about that one.

[Bright Life]

Man, I'd love to see his show. But even if he came to town, I probably couldn't afford it.

[Magdlyn]

Tix run from $35-$75, depending on your city. Maybe a few tix are left.

So, latest update: Eddie has stopped coming out for autographs and hugs/photos. I am so lucky I got him fresh out of the gate, still as strong as a small pony! :) He does, however, come out and answer questions for several minutes. Which is still cool. There are a couple youtubes up of these alley interviews.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOQv5fM3fl4

In the sidebar there, is another 3 parter from another night/city.

He addresses the future of The Riches, other projects, his potential future role in politics, etc.

And here is a nice series of pix from a further different alley

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25559884@N04/2498996131/in/set-72157604632626420/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/AlleyInterviews/alley12.jpg

[Matty]

I love the way he can make you laugh and think at the same time.
That was a cool little snippet thanks. hes seems like a good guy offstage as well eh.


I love that particular deconstruction of the flood story, that alone debunks the whole idea even without worrying about water levels, timescale and boatbuilding. The etcha-a-sketch end of the word. Best description ever.

he certainly has a bloody good point. Usually does eh.
"um, this god of yours is meant to be infallible right? Well i think i see i minor flaw in his flawless plan"

[Magdlyn]

I love the way he can make you laugh and think at the same time.

That's the best part. Well, that and the ridiculously good looks.


That was a cool little snippet thanks.

It's in 3 parts. If you actually go to youtube you'll see. Plus there is another 23 parter. If you have time to look.

screech! Edit~

And once again, I respond to something that isnt there.

[Matty]

whoops.

again. i'll try and cut that donw. its always been my posting style though.
free flow and then edit. it appears it is a PITA though.

[Magdlyn]

It's OK, I'm getting used to it.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Eddie%20Icons/5132924.gif

[GodfreyTemple]

I saw he's doing a voice in this movie too:
http://www.igor-movie.com/

But I can't figure out which one from the trailer...

He plays Dr Schadenfreude, one of the mad scientists.

Saw Caspian and it was good. Coulda used more Eddie. Of course.

I'm looking forward to that. :D

[Magdlyn]

Saw Caspian and it was good. Coulda used more Eddie. Of course.

I'm looking forward to that. :D

Here's a clip with Eddie talking about the role.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0wa3zRVst4Y

[GodfreyTemple]

Now that's what I call service.
*just watched it with Isolde*
:D

[Magdlyn]

Now that's what I call service.
*just watched it with Isolde*
:D


hehe

I started re-reading The Dawn Treader (I have a set of Narnia books but havent reread them in a decade) to remind myself of how big of an Eddie role we can look forward to in the next movie. :)

Here's a new radio interview (brought to you by the prisoners of Alcatraz):

http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/WCPN/an/12155/#When:15:49:02Z

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Wallpaper/mosaic.jpg

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Wallpaper/wallp.jpg

[Magdlyn]

Oh, BTW, there's a bit of an Eddie marathon on BBCAmerica right now. Just did D2K and now Glorious is on.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Glorious/redsuit6.jpg

[GodfreyTemple]

Excellent.

Just have to pull CSI Miami out from under Isolde.

...

Wish me luck.

[Magdlyn]

Eddie: democracy>>Alexander the Great>>General Patton was gay

Current tour, pretty good quality, for a change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge5j2hK0gH8&NR=1

Makes perfect sense

[Magdlyn]

Latin was hard for the Romans!

"Fuck a duckus!"

"Veritas?''

"Veri veri veritas!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YOmOd40iY&feature=related

[Magdlyn]

Just a funny interview from '96

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEVXH1xcYK8&feature=related

[leccy]

Phil Jupitus imitates Eddie and Eddie reacts from the sidelines - hilarious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rnhjcazfaE

[Magdlyn]

I love that one!

[Bright Life]

goddamn sound card still isn't reloaded!

[Magdlyn]

Got sound yet? Need it for this (NSFW warnings)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UOxk6IVl9Mg

Click on the link instead of the arrow if it says no longer available.

This one's just got music, not words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8zp30zIqtg&NR=1


Sexy Eddie.

[Magdlyn]

So... yeah. Went to see Eddie on Tuesday at the incredible ornate Moorish 1928 Tampa Theater. Eddie did a lot of material that was new to me, different from what he did in NYC in Feb and Boston in April. He seemed to be having a great time, and he obviously mixes it up a lot to keep from boring himself. He started with at least 15 mins of material ad libbed and specific to FLA and Tampa. Then he told us he hadnt really started the show yet.

He danced, he mimed playing spoons, he mimed playing tennis and football. His encore involved God, Pink Floyd and Darth Vadar on the dark side of the moon, explaining things to American astronauts.

He was awesome. Better than 10,000 hotdogs.

I went with my sister and a FLA friend. Sister is a long time Python fan and I am turning her into a full on Eddie worshiper.

If anyone wants a full length spoilerish review, PM me.

:love:

[Thalia Thinks]

I wish I had known you were in my hometown! I would have loved to meet you.

[Matty]

damn i have missed too much of this thread recently.

That Phil Jupitus vid was v cool for starters, that guys is a very good comic and an awesome dj.


and holy shit mags do you travel round the country to take in every show he does?
And i thought the Moors died out way before 1928? ;)

[Magdlyn]

I wish I had known you were in my hometown! I would have loved to meet you.

Oh thanks, Thalia, that's nice of you to say.

damn i have missed too much of this thread recently.

That Phil Jupitus vid was v cool for starters, that guys is a very good comic and an awesome dj.


and holy shit mags do you travel round the country to take in every show he does?

Only 3 shows! that's nothing compared to those dirty hippie deadheads you used to hang out with, sir.


And i thought the Moors died out way before 1928? ;)


Right. These were fake Moors by way of Spanish art deco.

http://www.tampatheatre.org/images/TampaTheatreAudColor.jpg

[Thalia Thinks]

Are you going to the show next week in Atlanta? I was doing a search trying to find something to do while I'm there and saw that he is doing two shows.

[Matty]

damn thats some theatre. v cool.


Only 3 shows! that's nothing compared to those dirty hippie deadheads you used to hang out with, sir.easy tiger, i think its awesome that you make such an effort to go see someone you are such a fan of. i love the idea and am just kinda jealous i'm not in a position to do it myself with a few people.

[Magdlyn]

damn thats some theatre. v cool.


Only 3 shows! that's nothing compared to those dirty hippie deadheads you used to hang out with, sir.easy tiger...

Rawr.

i think its awesome that you make such an effort to go see someone you are such a fan of. i love the idea and am just kinda jealous i'm not in a position to do it myself with a few people.

I am sorry he didnt go up to Canada! Sometimes he makes comedy fests up there, so keep your eyes peeled. Esp if the Riches doesnt come back. He'll be at loose ends.

I probably wouldnt have gone to NY for the Work In Progress show if I'd known he was starting his actual tour so soon after. But I am really glad I did, b/c it was a blast to stay at the Hotel Chelsea with my other Eddie friends! Boston was no trouble to get to. And FLA, well I was planning a trip to visit family anyway, so I just booked my trip around when he'd be there.

Thalia, no, no more shows for me. :( I live in the Northeast so Atlanta is not in my range. Now, I've just got to live on my memories, photos and youtubes.

Sounds like he will be touring Europe next summer. Def England. Probably Paris. He's still claiming he's going to do shows in French, German and... Russian (all a part of his plan to promote European unity). But he does not speak Russian. So that's just a joke.

He has indicated the European tour will be 10 and 11:00 shows, like he did in NY and LA, b/c he hasnt planned far enough in advance to book venues for the full on show, and will just go on late after whatever other show is officially in the theater.

As far as what he is saying now, he may film one of those shows for a DVD. Too bad he just can't arrange for one of the shows from this tour to be filmed! I don't get it.

[Magdlyn]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Faces/baeddie.sized.jpg

[Magdlyn]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/face6.jpg

[Magdlyn]

Death Star Canteen

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw

Do You Have a Flag?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hYeFcSq7Mxg&feature=related

Romans, Carthaginians and Elephants

http://youtube.com/watch?v=smN4_9PwZOw&feature=related

Guns don't kill people but they help

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Is_xrLNS6bY&feature=related

James Bond and his Gadgets

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fui3H8j6phY&feature=related

[Magdlyn]

British Movies v US Movies

http://youtube.com/watch?v=N0onquIv89g&feature=related

B Movies and Vampire Rules

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uLZ70ukBMTY&feature=related

Techno-joy and Techno-fear

http://youtube.com/watch?v=C9I_xhaDyxs&feature=related

[Magdlyn]

Moon Landings

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1DzowVHtmmM&feature=related

Horse Races

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W2OgjcJ_hQo&feature=related

[Magdlyn]

They Lie to Us

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ngNdJ41YfUQ&feature=related

[dug_down_deep]

I just wanted to mention that I'm watching this thread. More pics of Eddie, please. The prettier the better.

[Magdlyn]

Doug, not to be too personal, but are you gay, or yanking my chain? :confused: :o

I came here to post this blog, which includes an audience video from Eddie's final Radio City performance, wherein Eddie demonstrates how, at 46, he is still quite the "action" transvestite. The man is in shape! Wow.

Good review as well.

http://thecomicscomic.typepad.com/thecomicscomic/2008/07/eddie-izzard-at.html

[dug_down_deep]

Don't worry about it, Magdlyn. I'm just being a little childish by demonstrating something to somebody in another thread. I'm not gay, but I class homophobia and casual denigration of anything non-macho with all the other bad ideas/attitudes/behaviors that some people wear as badges of honor.

IOW, I was just saying fuck you to a bigot. Sorry to interrupt your thread with it.

[Magdlyn]

Well, thanks for clearing that up. Please send me a link to that thread. And here's a pretty pic of Eddie anyway.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/Glam%20and%20Arty/e2c2.jpg

[earljail]

This was mentioned but not posted: Cake or death

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rZVjKlBCvhg

[Magdlyn]

How'd I miss that one? Thanks, EJ. That makes an even dozen. Someone sure put a lot of work into creating all those! LOL

[Magdlyn]

http://www.showbizspy.com/news/07022008/all-drama-as-emmy-stars-begin-their-fight

GABRIEL BYRNE, EDDIE IZZARD and JAMES SPADER will be among the stars fighting for a Best Drama Actor honour at the Emmy Awards, while pregnant MINNIE DRIVER and SALLY FIELD are favourites for the Best Actress prize.

This is for Eddie and Minnie's FX drama/black comedy show, The Riches. Which has had 2 seasons, the 2nd one truncated by the writer's strike and which is still in limbo as far as being picked up for a 3rd season.

That'd be ironic. 2 Emmy noms and no new season...

[Magdlyn]

From current tour, Eddie speaks of tough Spartan sheep who intimidate the wolves. Good quality vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GigUBGZC8Ps&NR=1

[Magdlyn]

Wicked awesome stuff I found.

Video sets from current tour, this recorded off the big screen over the stage at Radio City NYC, excellent quality vid and audio, arranged by subject:

http://youtube.com/user/littlstarr

less good vid, but still great audio, arranged chronologically

http://youtube.com/user/tehpurplehippo

And, rare vintage Eddie, in a mustache, demonstrating his street performance act from his early career: riding a 6.5 foot unicycle while escaping from "The Manacles of Death."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6w08bRT_Zk&feature=related

[Magdlyn]

Here's a review Octavia asked me to write about Eddie's current standup tour, for her zine.

http://nontheistnexus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=168&Itemid=330

[Magdlyn]

Hi all you Eddie lovers. I know you're out there, old and new fans. How ya doin'?

Eddie's on holiday in Britain right now, but resumes his US tour soon. The other day he took part in an awards ceremony in his hometown of Bexhill-On-Sea. His dad got an award for being an outstanding citizen! Now we know where Eddie gets his social conscience from. Aw!

http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/newshastings/The-best-of-Bexhill-celebrated.4271606.jp

Link includes video (Eddie speaks at the end of it, and his dad responds) and a slideshow.

John [Izzard] was presented the award in recognition for the vast amount of work he has done locally -selflessly devoting himself in retirement to improving Bexhill and in particular his home town of Sidley, where he actively works with the Sidley Community Association.

Among his many achievements, John has been at the forefront of social change within the area for projects such as the creation of Bexhill Community Partnership, Sidley Children's Centre, the Adult Learning Centre and the Young People's Centre - of which son Eddie is also a Patron.

John said winning the award was a complete surprise for him, and on receiving it from Eddie was clearly overwhelmed and simply said: " Thank you all very much - I am staggered."

Earlier in the evening Eddie, who is a patron of the De La Warr Pavilion, also presented the awards for the Young Musician of the Year, a category sponsored by the pavilion.

He received warm, rapturous applause and addressing the packed auditorium jokingly said: "When I was invited along tonight I thought there were only going to be about twenty people here!"

Eddie delighted guests by happily signing autographs and chatting to people throughout the evening.

[Magdlyn]

From a Seattle review

It's got to be weird being Eddie Izzard.

No, not just because the actor-comedian is a self-outed cross-dresser prone to wearing eye makeup and the odd pair of high heels. And no, not just because his comic routines are free-range satirical rambles through cul-de-sacs of history, anthropology, religion and other meaty topics that pique his omnivorous curiosity.

The weirdness has to do with Izzard's fans, so wildly devoted to this ingenious English performer, they snatched up all the tickets for this entire U.S. tour at warp speed. Such devotees were out in force at the Paramount Theatre on Friday night, roaring a welcome fit for a pop superstar when Izzard strolled onstage. (His Saturday-night show is also sold out, but devotees will likely be waiting for returns.)

"You're scary," he said to the packed house, a bit overwhelmed by the reception.

hehe :p

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/AtlantaHotness/jean9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/AtlantaHotness/jean7.jpg

[Bright Life]

At least he knows y'all love him. :)

[Magdlyn]

Well, he didnt tell the NY, Boston or Tampa crowd that WE were scary!

:D

[Bright Life]

I reckon y'all were much better behaved. :)

[Magdlyn]

And awfully good looking.

[Bright Life]

Well, YEAH!

[Magdlyn]

Just found this cute little gif:

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u74/queenfluffernutter/IzzardCoffee.gif

[Zygote]

AAAARRRGHHHH!

I just found this thread this morning and discovered that Eddie's tour finished its San Francisco run - last night!

25 miles away and I missed him!

damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn

[Magdlyn]

Oh, how could you not have known! I am sad for you, but glad to meet another Eddie fan.

Pilgrimage to LA!!!

[Zygote]

I'm a fan, but not enough to track his activity, I guess. My daughter and I are both fans and LA did cross our minds, but the extra costs are prohibitive. I hope he tours again before he gets elected to rule the world.

[Magdlyn]

Well, I think more US gigs depends on his TV show The Riches getting picked up. It was passed over for the Emmys this yr, it only had 7 shows b/c of the writers strike. (Last yr Minnie Driver got an Emmy nom.) So, we are still waiting to see if FX will give it another go. I am sure he's got more fans now after this tour, who are curious about it.

Otherwise, he will probably do more gigs at the Coronet in LA once the tour is over. And sometimes he goes up the coast. He did a few shows in Seattle before this tour.

But next yr he's touring Europe... at least the UK. He said he'd film Stripped next yr. The Portland Q&A (on youtube ) is really good quality, go check it out. Good info there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bgzPd8Aj1w

[Magdlyn]

Just a good article/interview:


http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jul/23/just-go-izzard-flow/

Just Go With The Izzard Flow


He veers into a conversational cul-de-sac about acting vs. comedy. Izzard, 46, has won plenty of recognition for both, including an Emmy for his first HBO comedy special, “Dressed to Kill,” a Tony nomination for his leading role in a Broadway revival of Peter Nichols’ tragicomic play “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,” and acclaim for his role in the “Ocean’s” movies and the “The Riches,” in which Izzard plays the patriarch of a family of con artists.

Acting, by Izzard’s estimate, is "about 50 percent different or maybe 75 percent different” from comedy. “But there’s one big central thing in both, and that’s to be absolutely inside what you’re doing as much as possible. So if I’m talking complete rubbish and then becoming the king of Egypt or a giraffe or Moses, then I’ve got to be that person, that thing, that animal, that coast or whatever it is. And in drama, it’s exactly the same — you want to be your character, so people watch and just relax into it. But acting is so very different from standing on a stage for two hours and just nailing it and living it second to second with no lifeboat, no ‘let’s do that again.’

“So I do love them both. I wouldn’t choose between them. If I had to do one, I think I would do the filmed medium, because you can go anywhere in the world, and it is a lot of fun, you’re working with a lot of other people, and you can do comedy or drama. So that would be my cheeky way of doing one.

“Not that you asked that question,” he says, cracking up at his own relentless filibustering...

"I say at the beginning of the show that I’m going to talk about everything that ever happened,” he says, chuckling as if the idea still tickles him. “I’ve been going around the Bible Belt talking about God, and having a sort of more European view on God, ’cause I think in Europe after two world wars we agreed that he wasn’t watching. I’m not trying to say I hate religious people or I hate religion. I’m just trying to say I think religions are philosophies with a mystical topcoat. And I prefer to remove the topcoat. Of course, you can’t just tell people what to think, but you can put out another point of view. Which I have found in America, going through the Bible Belt, talking to a lot of people coming to the show, that people don’t feel they can say out loud. No politician can get elected (in the United States), I don’t think, without giving at least a nod to religion, saying, ‘Thank God, praise the Lord ...’ ”

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Bees/scaled080723SUN-eddie_izzard_t318.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Bees/caricature.jpg

[Zygote]

“I’ve been going around the Bible Belt talking about God, and having a sort of more European view on God, ’cause I think in Europe after two world wars we agreed that he wasn’t watching. I’m not trying to say I hate religious people or I hate religion. I’m just trying to say I think religions are philosophies with a mystical topcoat. And I prefer to remove the topcoat."

I want to see a face-off.

Eddie Izzard on stage up against whomever the cretinists choose as their champion.

Eddie raises many of the same questions as Dawkins and is ever so much funnier.

[Magdlyn]

That's the reason I belong to the First Church of Izzardianism of Yemen and Bexhill-on-Sea! ;)

[Bright Life]

Eddie raises many of the same questions as Dawkins and is ever so much funnier.Edutainment ftw.

[jess]

Humor gets those cracks started...

How many of us lost it because of a well place joke?

[Magdlyn]

I'm a sucker for a guy that's funny.

[Bright Life]

Tell me about it.

Funny is HOT.

Jon Stewart, anyone?

[Magdlyn]

Tell me about it.

Funny is HOT.

Jon Stewart, anyone?

Yes, please.

[Magdlyn]

Check out the title of this blog:

http://rnrrantsnraves.blogspot.com/2008/07/eddie-izzard-at-pearl-palms-casino-las.html

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/kekeke.gif

[Bright Life]

http://rationalpagans.com/images/smilies/irony_meter.gif

[Magdlyn]

And it's called "Rich's" blog as well, Riches being the name of Eddie's TV show... It's funny in a couple ways!:p

[Magdlyn]

Just in case you hadnt read my current sig:

Yes, and the Crusades were,

"We kill you in the name of Jesus!"

"Wait, we have Jesus too! He's a prophet in our religion! We kill you in the name of Jesus!"

"Do you? Well, we kill you for your dark skin, for Jesus was a white man from Oxford!"

"No, he wasn't! He was from Judea! Dark-skinned man, such as we!"

"...Look, it's just we've come all this way. Would you mind awfully if we hacked you to bits? Just for the press back home."

[Magdlyn]

Just found a treasure trove! Eddie interviews of all kinds, posted by this person:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Chefgirl67

Example, on Dennis Miller 1999, scruffy Eddie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUk5yJtk3iU

[Magdlyn]

And Eddie ends his Stripped tour this week with 5 nights at the Kodak in LA, starting tonight. Bravo, Eddie! Or should that be, Brava?! :notworthy: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/humble.gif

[Magdlyn]

To celebrate the last week of the tour, some cute expressions from Radio City

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/RadioCity/superior.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/RadioCity/openmoutj.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/RadioCity/help.jpg

[Magdlyn]

Intensity and menace some say he lacks

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/RadioCity/lippress2.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/RadioCity/cuteface.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/RadioCity/lips.jpg

[Magdlyn]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/RadioCity/gesture2.jpg

[Magdlyn]

Eddie gives French lessons. No, not that kind of french, I wish.

Still fantastically cute tho

Rude Waiter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQrUdzCK5vI&feature=related

In this one, he explains the usefulness of the French words truc and boufgh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyyemAY7ERM&feature=related

[Magdlyn]

Really cute and funny! Esp if you like languages, which I know a lot of you do...!

[Magdlyn]

NEW! Eddie and Ewan McGregor on Ruby Wax! I've only read the transcript before! squee!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYGsZxvDuNI

[Magdlyn]

So...yeah, still watching this interview. In pt 2, Eddie and Ewan talk about the orgy scene in Velvet Goldmine and how Ewan grabbed Eddie's ass when Eddie was trying to get someone's bra off, and that sort of threw him off... LOL

Geez, how I'd like to be in that sandwich.

...ooh now Ewans' taking about running nude onstage and hitting a puddle of water from a spilled vase, giving quite a show to the ppl in the first row...

[Magdlyn]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/Stripped/poster.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/WorkInProgressNYMar08/headback.jpg

[Isolde]

Any news about a new season of The Riches?

[Magdlyn]

Nope. :(

[Magdlyn]

Nope. :(

Well, I started a new thread to say my DVR recorded a Riches show last night for some reason.


In other Eddie news, there's this about Valkyrie:


LOS ANGELES (AP) - The release of Tom Cruise's movie about a real assassination attempt on Hitler during World War II has been changed again. It'll open December 26.

Originally, "Valkyrie" was going to be in theaters this October. That got switched to next February. And, now it's moving back to the day after Christmas.

That makes it eligible for the upcoming Oscars, if that's what Cruise and company have in mind.

The movie also stars Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Izzard and Tom Wilkinson. Bryan Singer, who did "The Usual Suspects," the first two "X-Men" movies and "Superman Returns," is the director.

:) I hope it's good.

[Bright Life]

So I had a dream about meeting Eddie at a friend's apartment last night.

I told him I had a friend named Mags who is in love with him and saw him at several tour stops. I asked him to pose for some pics of me getting and giving him kisses. Then I posted a very sweet pic of me giving him a peck on the cheek and him making a surprised face. As I left, I gave him a hug and told him that I thought he was brilliant.

Mags, YOU'RE IN MY DREAMS!!! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT???

[Magdlyn]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/lol.gif

Sheesh, I wish I had more Eddie dreams with kissing involved!

Thanks for responding to this thread. I feel like I'm posting in a vacuum most of the time.

[jess]

Sorry! I'm reading it at least!

[Magdlyn]

Hey Jess! Thanks.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Pagan_dar/kiss.gif

[Isolde]

I'm reading too! I just don't anything to add - I rely on you to keep me updated on any Eddie news :)

[Cygnus]

Big Eddie fan. Got my son hooked on him too.

So late last night I was browsing youtube to see if there were any Eddie I missed (I think I've seen most of them), and I found one.

It was a pretty good bit, with a great part about spiders (you know they want to suck your brains out). And somewhere in there he said,

"The only thing worse than a spider? No spider. (Where the f@#$ is it?)"

So today I go to show my son this great bit, and I can't find it anywhere.

Seemed like it was a 5-6 minute clip or so.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Cygnus

[Magdlyn]

What was he wearing? Sounds like maybe not an official tour but Secret Policeman's ball or Work in Progress, or a clip from Stripped if he was in that ringmaster's jacket. I havent been quite as up on my Eddie stalking the last month or so, I am ashamed to say. Been taking a break since the tour ended and the Riches are in limbo. :(