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Eddie Izzard: Comedy
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Stand up comedy with Eddie Izzard recorded live in New York in June 2000. Eddie discusses such topics as the Crusades, mad European cows, sharks, the Deathstar canteen and much much more.
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Izzard found some degree of solace in comedy after the death of his mother. He drew particular comfort from the works of Monty Python, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, and the early Benny Hill. He began to toy with stand-up at the University of Sheffield and, after being ingloriously kicked off his accountancy degree course, he took his act into the streets. Having spent a great deal of the 1980s working as a street performer in Europe and the United States, Izzard moved his act into the stand-up comedy venues of Britain, first appearing at The Comedy Store in London in 1987. He refined his material throughout the '80s, and in the early '90s he finally began earning some measure of recognition, though not in the guise in which he would later become famous.
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Born in Yemen on February 7, 1962, Izzard grew up in Wales and Northern Ireland. Following his mother's death when he was six, Izzard found some degree of solace in comedy, particularly the works of Monty Python, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, and the early Benny Hill. He began doing stand-up at college and, after being ingloriously kicked out of school, he took his act to the streets. Izzard refined his material -- which largely revolved around personal experiences, politics, and social issues -- over the next decade, and in the early '90s, he finally began earning some measure of recognition. His stand-up work brought him British Comedy Awards in 1993 and 1996, and with popular and critical approval ... in hand, Izzard began appearing in films.
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In three years time, Izzard was hot on the London Club circuit and by 1993, he was performing shows in the West End. He'd performed his first show in a dress in 1992 and was enjoying his stint in makeup. By the time his one-man shows like Unrepeatable, Definite Article, and Glorious hit the States in the mid-1990s, Izzard was already a bonafide star in his native England. His 1998 HBO comedy special and mini-American tour for Dress To Kill was a critical hit in the US and his 2000 production of Circle landed him sold out dates across the county. Three Emmy nominations followed, earning Circle two awards for "Outstanding Writing In A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program" and "Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety or Comedy Program."
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In 1994, Izzard made his West End drama debut as the lead in the world premiere of David Mamet's The Cryptogram with Lindsay Duncan, in the production at London's Comedy Theatre. The success of that role led to his second starring role in David Beaird's black comedy 900 Oneonta. In 1995, he portrayed the title character in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II."
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If you are a fan of Eddie Izzard's live comedy, you will thoroughly enjoy this book. It contains the same wildly spinning style of storytelling only Mr. Izzard can deliver. He touched on everything from his slow rise to stardom to his childhood and adolescence. Some very touching insights into Eddie Izzard's life, all told with his signature humor. A must read for any Eddie Izzard fan!
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