# Re-run(?) of Eddie Izzard, Hilarious Transvestite comic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976 "2004-03-07T14:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/1 "2004-03-07T14:29:02Z")
If you have never seen Eddie Izzard, you must catch his act on HBO. If you have already laughed your ass off watching this show, you’ll probably want to see it again. If you don’t get HBO, please have a friend tape it for you. It’s entitled, “Dress to Kill,” which sounds familiar to me, but the blurb seems to describe a gig I never saw: **British comic Eddie Izzard hits the Unitred States for a lively show that features such topics as mass murderers, puberty and Scooby Doo.** I don’t remember any of those things, but what the hell, I’m older. Here, in one small part of Connecticut, are the dates, times, etc., for the forthcoming spots: Fri 3/12 11:30pm Ch. 404 HBOC Thu 3/18 2:15am " " " [If you go [aoltvlistings.com](http://aoltvlistings.com) (or something like that) and tweak it for your area, you can then search on “Eddie Izzard” (sans quotes) and perhaps you’ll get the poop.] If I’m not mistaken, Izzard did his act in Paris. He seems to be utterly fluent in French. Also, IIRC, he bombed there. I think he mentions this, and the fact that no one does standup in France. ‘They don’t get it,’ apparently. At any rate, this guy does a bit on working useless French phrases into conversation, and even if you don’t speak a word of it, it’ll knock you out. It should have been in the blurb (mentioned above). I don’t know if he’s a true Transvestite, or if dressing as a woman is just his schtick, but I do know that the guy is riotously funny. Hope you catch it. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/2 "2004-03-07T15:06:50Z")
I have this and a bunch of his other stuff on vhs and dvd. I love Eddie and was quite unhappy that his boston dates last year to see him live coincided with me giving birth so I couldn’t go ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/3 "2004-03-07T15:19:56Z")
I haven’t seen him in concert, but I recently rewatched _Mystery Men_ and he was part of the great cast in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![grisham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@grisham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grisham)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/4 "2004-03-07T19:17:19Z")
Hilarious stuff. I especially like him talking about the flags. “We live here…So what its ours …we have a flag” The HBO spot you are talking about was taped a while back, but its still funny I happen to have watched it last night. ---
**Author:** ![dinoboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dinoboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinoboy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/5 "2004-03-07T19:45:36Z")
“Cake or Death!” pure genius ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/6 "2004-03-07T19:51:13Z")
Yes, Colonel Sebastian? It’s just the Rebels, sir…they’re here. Oh? Do they want tea? No, I think they’re after something a bit more than that, sir. I don’t know what it is, but they brought a flag. Damn! That’s dash cunning of them! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![thi6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@thi6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thi6)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/7 "2004-03-07T20:01:03Z")
I love Eddie Izzard’s comedy. I got to see him live in Minneapolis last fall, the Sexie tour. Funny stuff. I taped Dress To Kill a few years ago when I saw it on HBO. A couple of Christmases ago, I got the DVD. That one is still my favorite. I also bought Glorious on VHS because it isn’t out on DVD yet, AFAIK. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/8 "2004-03-07T20:07:14Z")
> [@tanookie](#): > > I have this and a bunch of his other stuff on vhs and dvd. I love Eddie and was quite unhappy that his boston dates last year to see him live coincided with me giving birth so I couldn’t go ☹ Oh, nice sense of priority. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/9 "2004-03-07T21:47:19Z")
> [@](#): > > British comic Eddie Izzard hits the Unitred States for a lively show that features such topics as mass murderers, puberty and Scooby Doo. > > I don’t remember any of those things, but what the hell, I’m older. **Mass Murders** (quoting from old memories so be kind) Pol Pot killed XX Million people and died in bed so well done there. You must get up VERY early in the morning. Your day planner must be “death death death death, lunch, death death death” Hitler was a mass murdering fuckhead…as many serious historians will tell you. **Puberty** That’s when you start switching on and you want to look your best and that’s when mother nature says NOT YOU’LL LOOK THE WORST YOU EVER DID BEFORE IN YOUR LIFE! I used to look in the mirror and think “well…I’d never shag me that’s for certain” **Scooby Do** When you go abroad tell people two things. One you’re from Canada that helps and two just say Scooby Do They’re like Falstaff a Shakespearian character it’s that level of genius. The rest of the kids on the buss fuck off. Scrappy Do a magnum _bang_ ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/10 "2004-03-07T21:58:40Z")
If you like **Dress to Kill** you should pick up a copy of **Circle**. It was the tour after Dress to Kill. Good stuff as well. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/11 "2004-03-07T22:12:13Z")
I’ve been a fan since 1993. I’ve got a video of his signed “Dear Francesca, Le singe est dans l’arbre, love Eddie”. I love him and we’re going to have ten thousand babies. Back off. ---
**Author:** ![Apathist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Apathist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apathist)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/12 "2004-03-07T22:34:17Z")
“Three major religions, one holy city. Couldn’t they have just spread it out a bit? ‘You have Aqaba, we’ll have Moscow, you can have Dover’” He’s the best Executive Transvestite comedian i’ve ever seen, thats for sure And of course a rather insightful view of the great gun debate: “They say that ‘guns don’t kill people, people kill people.’ Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don’t think you’d kill too many people.” ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/13 "2004-03-07T22:43:32Z")
_Dressed to Kill_ is quite funny but not exactly a _ma-nuuuu-ver_ yet. Fan-tab-u-lous! MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/14 "2004-03-07T23:31:48Z")
“The fourth transvestite battalion dropping in with _fabulous_ makeup…” Since I don’t get HBO comedy, it appears I’ll never be able to see _Dressed to Kill_ again. So, which E.I. videos/DVDs should I buy? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/15 "2004-03-07T23:38:33Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > “The fourth transvestite battalion dropping in with _fabulous_ makeup…” > > Since I don’t get HBO comedy, it appears I’ll never be able to see _Dressed to Kill_ again. So, which E.I. videos/DVDs should I buy? I suggest starting with [this one](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CWOU/qid=1078702667/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0485089-4599157?v=glance&s=dvd). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/16 "2004-03-08T00:07:17Z")
He certainly is a comic genius - there’s a technique (that probably has a formal name) whereby one tells a series of apparently distinct amusing anecdotes, but bits of the previous ones keep escaping and invading the current - Izzard is the absolute master of this. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/17 "2004-03-08T14:16:47Z")
This guy is a riot. Even my German, generally non-laughing husband cracked up.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/18 "2004-03-08T15:37:30Z")
Wow…when you can crack up a German, you’ve made it, man. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/19 "2004-03-12T02:19:34Z")
Bumping this because I missed it somehow. HUGE Eddie fan here - what do you wanna know? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976/20 "2004-03-12T14:12:03Z")
Problem with Izzard is that his humour is all in the delivery. All the above quotes aren’t that funny until you see/imagine Izzard saying it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-run-of-eddie-izzard-hilarious-transvestite-comic/232976.md?page=2)