Eddie Izzard touring

[comfestivity]

EDDIE IZZARD IS GOD!!!

i think he's done pretty well too, becoming god as young as only 41yrs of age. onya tiger!

however...........i better run...i have to get ready to see GOD LIVE on stage as SEXIE as ever! i shall bid you all farewell, and leave you with the thought that in less than 2 and a 1/2 hours... i will get to see EDDIE IZZARD live, in real life, human, person form! OH MY GOD! this is my excitedableness and OOOOOOOOhhhhhh!!!!!!

i'm very very VERY EXCITED! even more excited than big kev just after doing a load of washing and taking some viagra!

[Beckslee]

Eddie Izzard was sooooo Fucking cool!!!!

The first bit of the show wasn't as goo because he was stumbling and wasn't sure what he was doing, but after the interval he was on fire.

[GentleZephyr]

Herald Sun article - July 17

- Danielle O'Donohue talks with self-confessed male lesbian and action transvestite, Eddie Izzard. -


You're about to start a world tour of your new show, Sexie. How long since you last did stand-up?
Three years properly, but I did stand-up in between. I did benefits. It's like you've trained as an athlete and you don't do it for three years, but you occasionally turn up and run a bit. It's kind of like that. So you have to get back in the mode.

Does it take long to get back into the swing of things?
No. You've got to get to a state where you just switch off and go with it.

So does this mean you have a fair idea of where Sexie is going?
No, I don't really know. It's not going to be any specific area. It's not like themed albums that rock 'n' roll people do. I tried a themed stand-up show called Glorious once, but it's rather constricting. It's better to be a free form thing. So I still don't know what the bloody hell I'm going to end up talking about.

As a comedian, putting up with heckling is part of the job. What's the best heckle you've had?
It was probably one in Scotland. It's a bit hard to explain, but the roof had two of those overhead fans you see in Vietnam war films that just go around like a propeller. And at one point I said, because there were two of them, "It looks like two aeroplanes have just crashed intot he roof and they've just left them there." And a guy down the back said, "You're just taking the piss now," in a Scottish accent. And I said, "Well, that's the whole basis of the genre. How can you complain that I'm doing my job description?" So that's the weirdest one.

And the best putdown?
I think that one - "that's the basis of the genre" is pretty good to put down a heckler. It was in the highlands of Scotland, so he was probably mad.

tbc

[GentleZephyr]

Have you found that a sense of humour changes around the world?
No, no. I firmly believe that the sense of humour is universal. There aren't national senses of humour. I just think there are several senses of humour in every country. There could be surreal or mainstream or political.

You've spent the past few years appearing in movies. What's the worst experience you've had on a movie set?
The last shot I did on The Avengers. I was supposed to be falling from a certain height, but I was in fact standing on a see-saw so they would just drop my end of the see-saw. But I fell back on the last take and cracked my coccyx. The guys were going, "I thought you were going to hold him, I thought you were going to catch him." That wasn't very horrendous, but the reason I admit it is because it's incredibly painful. If you crack your coccyx, it's a bloody nightmare. You can't do anything. You just have to not sit down for a long time.

With all the film work you've done in the past few years, have you been to the Oscars yet?
No. I've only been to the Oscars after-show party. It's very funny and silly. Everyone comes. Some turn up with their Oscars. They carry them around while they have a drink.

But you went to this year's Tony awards?
I was nominated so, yeah, I did. It was great. I was nominated for Best Actor, for God's sake. It was really quite odd. I just had a whale of a time. Didn't win, but what the hell. I just enjoyed the ceremony, mainly because I realised I'd already won just by being nominated. For God's sake, I'm a stand-up. If I get nominated, that's fine, that's dandy.

Outside of film and comedy, do you get much time to listen to music?
I've been going through a sort of down period in music because of the endless amounts of pop-idoly bands made out of bits of paper, glue, bits of old cobblers. Even though this isn't what the alternative music is - it's still Radiohead - but the mainstream pop stuff is like a disease, a disease. It's very odd.

tbc

[GentleZephyr]

Is it hard to avoid?
Well, it's the thing you hear when you're touring around, playing in shops. It floats around, gets in your teeth. But I buy DVDs endlessly, that's what I do.

Are DVD extras a big selling point?
Yeah, I'd buy they anyway, but because they're there I'm excited about every DVD. I get very excited and think, "Ooo, is it going to be a good one?" Some of them are kind of crappy and some of them are great. And they're getting better and better now. It's becoming a standard thing. DVD extras are built into the plot now when you make a film.

So on film sets, you've worked on DVD extras and segments?
Oh absolutely. I mean, you know it's happening. There's a camera always following and it's great. It's cheap to do. It's interesting, even if it's shot in a standard way. Because you see the thing getting made, you can learn so much from it.

Does it take away some of the mystery for audiences, though?
No, no. If they're worried about losing the mystery, don't listen to it. But there are so many kids coming through who want to get into the industry. I remember as a kid, if I was seven and I could have got hold of DVD extras, I could have learnt so much more. You learn so much off those extras. They're just fantastic training tools. I love them to bits.

What's the best extras package you've seen?
It's a while ago, but I really like the Moulin Rouge one. It was very in-depth. It showed Baz Luhrmann going through scripts and how they read out scripts and how they change scenes. Then it's shot and they go for reshoots and they act out the changed scenes and the detail he goes to.


*Eddie Izzard, Concert Hall, tonight, $62+bf, Ticketmaster7.

[comfestivity]

EDDIE KICKED ASS!!!!
as bec said, he took a little while to warm up, but once it got there, it so ROCKED!!!

FUKENDO!!!

[mish]

There's an Eddie Izzard review in today's Australian (18/7).

Sorry, I'm not going to have a chance to type it up.

[mish]

There's also going to be a feature on him in the Metropolitan section of tomorrow Sydney Morning Herald.

[Stripes]

This was in today's Age, in A3 in the Review part. Izzard's sexie soup