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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:44 PM
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Any Eddie Izzard fans here?
...wondering if perhaps you might know what he has been up to lately?
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tigerbeat Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:46 PM
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1. look for him in OCEAN'S TWELVE
he's going to be in that. most of his comedy concerts were just released on DVD as well.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:48 PM
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2. I've got the concert DVDs, but they are a couple of years old
...I was just thinking that I hadn't seen him in a while. He is so darn funny.
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tigerbeat Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:50 PM
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3. he's gigging in LA right now (where i live)....
...as it happens. totally sold out though.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:52 PM
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4. Big Eddie Izzard fan, here.
I understand that Anti Records just put out like 4 concert DVDs. I saw him in concert last year, 'twas much fun.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:54 PM
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5. He is majorly funny.
We absolutely love him. We have seen the DVDs over and over, and still laugh out loud at them.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:56 PM
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9. I think I've watched "Dressed to Kill" a couple dozen times by now
and it's STILL funny every time.
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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 07:40 PM
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41. "Cake or Death?"
Brilliant guy!
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sybylla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:56 PM
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6. I adore him
But for the life of me I don't know why. Now that you've brought him up, I'm putting his DVD's on my x-mas list.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:56 PM
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7. OH DEAR GOD YES.
Funniest man on the planet.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:06 PM
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12. His routine about the queen
and Princess Di gets me every time.

and I love Cake or Death?

He is too funny.
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Wheaty Donating Member (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:56 PM
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8. Me
:hi: Here is a fan

I was in the front row center for the Town Hall taping of Circles. You can see me and my friends arms pointing out the speakers as they were blowing out in the DVD extras about all the technical difficulties taping that show. :-)

Hopefully he'll be taking the new stuff he's trying out in LA on the road soon.

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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:00 PM
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10. I love his site so much.
Someone's already said what he's up to, but I just wanted to let folks who don't know about his site know, because it's neat.
Clips and everything.

You gotta love a guy who uses Socrates and Venn (as in Venn diagrams) as part of his routine. I find Eddie enormously attractive as well.
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tigerbeat Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:06 PM
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11. REVENGER'S TRAGEDY
you can get this from netflix. it's an adaptation of a thomas middleton play by alex cox with eddie izzard and derek jacobi and it's actually a lot better than i was anticipating. izzard is pretty good in it and cox's direction is pretty fun.

although i think he is, indeed, the funniest man on the planet...there are very few movies that izzard is in that are any good (i mistakenly tried to watch "all the queen's men" once. i still get the dry heaves from that)....so hopefully revenger's tragedy will change that pattern.

"hello, we're murderers. twix please."
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:08 PM
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13. I was pulling for him to get the Dr. Who role
Would have been the most exciting Dr. since Tom Baker.

Now if they can find a role for him in Harry Potter.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:12 PM
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15. his take on vicars having no arms is classic. he's the best.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:11 PM
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14. "Thank you for flying Church of England, cake or death? "
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:21 PM
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19. Well, we're fresh out of cake!
We only had three bits, and we didn't expect such a rush.

Well, I'll have the chicken, then!

Tastes of human! There you go, Mr. Hitler....you nazi shithead....
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:25 PM
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22. "you mean my choice is... or death?"
"Hitler ended up in a ditch covered in petrol on fire... so, that's fun. And that's funny. Because he was a mass-murdering fuck-head! :7"
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:29 PM
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25. I can't...get...the fucking...trees! AAAH! I will kill EVERYONE!
And Pol Pot is under house arrest...just don't go in that fuckin' house!
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:34 PM
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27. 12 monkeys mating, 11 donkeys dancing, 10 pygmies farming,
9 socks a-swimming, 5 GOLD RIiIIIINGS!.....
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:38 PM
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28. And fish in the sky....and a..big...monkey pie...
Just keep confirming and denying! 70% how you look, 20% how you sound, only 10% what you say.
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tigerbeat Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:49 PM
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30. helga helga wake up......
....what is it dr. heimlich?

....why are you calling me "dr. heimlich", i'm your husband for fuck's sake? stop being so bloody prussian.

....ok, what is it *gunther*?

....i have invented a maneuver..............
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:53 PM
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31. "What are you, a bloody tank commander now? "
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:54 PM
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32. Vat is it, you waking-up-type person?!
The me maneuver....it's not really a maneuver, yet...it's more of a gesture...
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tigerbeat Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:56 PM
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33. hoocha hoocha hoocha.........lobster. n/t
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:59 PM
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34. "I like my coffee hot and strong, like I like my women, hot and strong...
with a spoon in them."
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 07:04 PM
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36. Le singe est sur la branche!!!
Quoi?
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 07:05 PM
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37. I'll have the penne alla arrabiatta....
You'll need a tray....
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Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:15 PM
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16. Eddie Izzard
He's wonderful, original and crazy. Extremely funny. I only wish he hadn't used that repulsive idea about putting babies on spikes. Other than that, he's the funniest and probably the most intelligent comedian around.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:16 PM
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17. I thought the babies on spikes thing was funny.
He is a comedian after all. I like everything he does.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:19 PM
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18. I'm crazy Eddie! You want babies? We've got babies on racks!
Aw, c'mon, it was funny. LOVE the putting-baby-on-spike sound effect he does, too.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:23 PM
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20. And seriously,
did you not love the thing where he had God talking to him? In that James Mason voice? I am laughing just thinking about it.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:28 PM
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24. SO loved that. Have you seen his show "Glorious?"
Edited on Fri Dec-03-04 06:43 PM by Shakespeare
James Mason is God, and Sean Connery is Noah....Noah wants a speedboat instead of an ark, and he'll put all the long-eared animals along the side of the boat so their ears will blow back in the wind and look cool. Hysterical.
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tigerbeat Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:28 PM
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23. "mmm. taste like chicken." nt
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:23 PM
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21. There is only one problem with this thread...
I really want to see one of his shows now! :(


"You can't land on the moon and say, 'Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!' "
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apple_ridge Donating Member (406 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:31 PM
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26. Bizarre timing! A British friend of mine just gave me two cd's
of his about 2 hours ago. I'm sitting here listening to them and reading the posts.

#@$ hilarious.
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GingerSnaps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 06:42 PM
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29. I was going to ask the same question yesterday
I love him!
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buddhamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 07:01 PM
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35. "Luke. The force is really rather strong with you"
Luke: Oh yeah. How strong?

"As strong as a small pony"
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StrongbadTehAwesome Donating Member (623 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 07:20 PM
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38. Bless me Father, for I have sinned.
I poked a badger with a spoon.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 07:24 PM
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39. I've never heard that one before! Five Hail Mary's and two Hello, Dollys!
Edited on Fri Dec-03-04 07:29 PM by Shakespeare
I'm gonna HAVE to watch D2K tonight...
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 07:25 PM
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40. Funniest.... line... yet! *snort*
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