Izzard

Eddie made me cry last night.

From the first twenty minutes into the show I had aching cheeks, a split in my side and had run out of tissues to stave the tears pouring out of my eyes. Besides looking very good with his neatly kept goatee and his well maintained shape, his style didn’t fail to amuse. Topics covered included Noah and 'the boat’, Moses and the burning bush and commandment number ten about ‘not coveting your neighbour’s ox.’ He also stopped mid-show, twice, to look up something on his i-Phone using wikipedia. The first was the origin of the word Assassin, which he had to look up to prove to us that it came from the word ‘hashasin’ because they were on hashish when going on the kill. And the second time was when he got the value of Pi wrong. We booed and hissed at which he took out his trusted i-Phone with a slight flair, made us wait while he looked it up and then read out up to 7 digits after the decimal promising to ‘remember that for tomorrow’s show.’ The DVDs aren’t out yet, but I can’t wait for “Stripped.”

Post script – The two manuscripts were attacked with machetes and lay bleeding on the floors of my workshop class at university Tuesday night. The stories will be laid to final rest this weekend, when it is hoped that their re-incarnations will be regarded more kindly by all!