Comic Genius
Star of stage, screen and comedy clubs. Eddie Izzard has been called the funniest man in Britain and the bastard child of Monty Python. From his start as a street performer to his role in The Riches, Eddie has given audiences plenty to laugh at. His stand-up is often surreal but always funny. His tangents leave his audience breathless.
Eddie & Me
I met Eddie Izzard in 1993 when I was working the Vancouver International Comedy Festival. Eddie performed five nights at the Waterfront Theatre as part of the festival. I was lucky enough to see his show twice and I have been a big fan ever since.For a month before the festival people were coming into the office to buy tickets for Eddie's show. At that point, I had never heard of him so people tried to explain: "He's a British transvestite." They said. I had just moved into Vancouver's "gay" neighborhood and seen my first drag queen so I thought transvestites were the same thing. Do not worry, I know better now.
One day this nice looking man came into the office and asked to see the festival producer. I went and got him and he said, "Hi Eddie!" I was not sure what to think. Looking closely I noticed the man had nail polish and his shirt could have been called a blouse. He was also wearing boots with heels but I would not have called them feminine.
Over the next week, I got a chance to speak to Eddie a few times. He was always polite and soft spoken. I noticed his intelligence right away. He was also curious about Vancouver and many local sites. At the end of the week, we both ended up on the "Comedy Cruise." 50 drunken comedians and a karaoke machine on a small boat for a 3 hour cruise. If that is not a recipe for disaster, I do not know what is. I hope that Eddie doesn't actually remember what happened that night.
I adore Eddie and I will defend him to the death but that does not mean I think he is perfect. He has been in some crappy movies. In my subjective opinion of course. I may post reviews of Eddie's work. Feel free to disagree with me.
Eddie on Climate Change
Izzard to tackle Ironman Triathlon
Eddie Izzard is determined to push himself to his peak fitness after recently finishing 43 consecutive marathons - he's now undergoing training to compete in a triathlon. Skip related contentThe Valkyrie star has become obsessed with exercise after finishing a mammoth seven-week run in September as part of a fundraising campaign.
And Izzard has already plotted his next challenge - he's set to swim, sprint and cycle in a long-distance triathlon race.
He says, "I've just started up swimming because I want to do Ironman now. It's where you swim for five kilometres, then cycle for 180 kilometres and then you run a marathon after that - all in one go.
"I have (become fascinated with fitness) because there's no point in throwing away all that training. Swimming is really good upper-body (training) so I've been taking lessons. They teach you how to swim properly and that's great. I just want to keep up and get more healthy. Peak fitness at 90 - that's my idea!"
And the funnyman is urging his fellow Britons to get active so they can inspire homegrown athletes who are participating in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
He adds, "We've got the Olympics less than a thousand days ahead and I want to encourage people to take something they used to do when they were a kid and start doing it again. We're all living to about 100 now - unless you want the last 30 years of your life to be going really downhill, get healthy, get fit. Then we can encourage our athletes going into the Olympics to be able to have the fittest country (supporting them)."
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Marathon man Izzard opens museum
Comedian Eddie Izzard has run a half marathon between two south coast resorts before opening a newly modernised museum in his home town.
Izzard, who ran 43 marathons in 51 days for charity Sport Relief earlier this year, cut the ribbon at Bexhill Museum after running from Eastbourne."Running 43 marathons really tested out the legs, but they are fine," he said.
"I expected more bad things to happen to them on the big run but they served me very well."
Izzard, who is appearing at Eastbourne's Devonshire Park Theatre on Thursday evening, attended two schools in the town.
He lived in Bexhill, and used to work at a cafe near the site of the refurbished museum.
The opening is the culmination of a 10-year project to enlarge and modernise the 95-year-old museum.
The £2m-plus project was funded with a £900,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant, £700,000 from Rother District Council and £250,000 from the Society of Bexhill Museums plus other donations.
The original display area has been refurbished as the Sargent Gallery and there is a new Costume Gallery housing the collection from the former Bexhill Museum of Costume and Social History.
The new Technology Collection is a gallery devoted to Bexhill's motor heritage.
"A lot of Bexhill has stayed the same, but I like the idea of regeneration," said Izzard.
"Since the end of the war, with people retiring to Bexhill the pace and pulse has gone down.
"I like new art exhibitions and bands coming in and the new vibrancy.
"That is why I am running - because it is a healthy young idiot idea, even though I am 47.
"Now I am running, I am as fit as when I was 13."
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Comedians line up for Showtime series
Comedy titans Jonathan Winters, Eddie Izzard, Roseanne Barr and Drew Carey will be seen riffing with each other in a new U.S. comedy series, Showtime said."Behind the Green Room Door," a new six-episode, half-hour comedy series, is slated to premiere in 2010.
Robert Greenblatt, president of entertainment at Showtime Networks Inc., made the announcement regarding the show Wednesday.
Paul Provenza, director and co-producer of the behind-the-scenes comedy documentary, "The Aristocrats," will serve as host of "Behind the Green Room Door."
"The Green Room is a 'safe space' for comedy, and a dangerous place for convention," Provenza said in a statement. "If you're not easily offended and can roll with whatever happens when there are no rules, then being behind that door can be the time of your life."
Also to be featured on the show will be Robert Klein, Penn Jillette, Martin Mull, Tommy Smothers, Bob Saget, Sandra Bernhard, Andy Dick, Rain Pryor, Rick Overton, Paul Mooney, Bobby Slayton, Jim Jefferies, Patrice O'Neal, Andy Kindler, Dana Gould, Brendon Burns, Larry Miller and Reginald D. Hunter.
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Tickets From My Frist Two Eddie Shows
Eddie Iz Running
Eddie is running 30KM a day to raise funds for Sport Relief. Go to the website to sponsor him. If you are a UK taxpayer the government will add 25% to your donation. You can follow Eddie's run on Twitter
Izzard Rants Against Racist Politics
Funnyman Eddie Izzard is urging his fellow Brits to stand up to a tide of fascism sweeping European politics - amid fears right-wing extremists could gain a foothold in the U.K.Political activists in Britain have launched a campaign after concerns grew over the rise of far right-wing British National Party, whose members expect to pick up thousands of votes in the upcoming European Parliamentary Elections next month (June09).
And comedian-turned-actor Izzard has backed calls for voters to make a stand against the controversial party to stop it gaining ground.
Izzard, who played a German World War II officer involved in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 2008 movie Valkyrie, tells Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, "We all know the BNP is a racist party and racism is active hatred. The BNP talk about racial purity, a concept they learned from Hitler.
"I was in the U.S. for the elections and witnessed Hope's great victory. Yet now, in Britain, we are about to elect racists to represent us in Europe... If you believe in humanity, in our modern, diverse country, I ask you to reject the politics of hate."
Eddie & Kevin Spacey in a PSA for A Night Less Ordinary
May the 4th Be With You
In honor of Star Wars Day
New Film: Rage
Rage will premiere at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. Eddie plays financier Tiny Diamonds.
Eddie As Tiny Diamonds in Rage
Izzard's Hospital Show For Injured Fan
British funnyman Eddie Izzard treated a fan injured in the Mumbai terror attacks to a stand-up routine as he recovered at a London hospital.The star was visiting Will Pike in a South London facility, after he suffered a number of broken bones in the attacks last year.
Pike's father, Nigel, had written to Izzard explaining that his son was unable to attend the comedian's show at the Lyric Theatre in the U.K.'s capital because of his injuries and asked if the comic would send a note to his poorly son.
But Izzard went one better - going to see Pike in the hospital and performing his hour-and-a-half set for him and fellow patients.
Nigel Pike called Izzard's generous gesture "a great thing".
The Riches Come To An End
F/X has canceled The Riches after two seasons. The network decided after two months of consideration to ax the series due to low ratings.
Dinner With Eddie: Penne a la Arabiata
Ingredients: - 2 cup flour
- Olive oil
- Light malt vinegar
- 1 large onion, diced
- 1 green pepper, diced
- 50 g bacon, diced
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 6 cup mushrooms, sliced
- 2 400g tins of chopped tomatoes
- 2 green chillies, optional
- 1 small pot of single cream, optional
- Salt, pepper, and some Parmesan for topping
Directions:
- First put the tomatoes and bacon into a pan and set them simmering. Add a dash of vinegar and some salt and pepper. You want to boil them down to make a nice thick sauce. This will probably take about 15 minutes. If you think the chillies will be too spicy, then add a drop of single cream to the mixture about halfway through.
- Whilst this is doing dice the vegetables and put the water on for the pasta. Heat up a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a frying pan. Add the onions and peppers first, giving them about five minutes to soften. Add in the garlic and chilli, and get the pasta going (assuming the pasta will take 10 minutes - adjust accordingly). Give the vegetables a few more minutes, stirring to make sure it doesn't stick and the garlic doesn't burn, before adding the mushrooms. Add salt and a good helping of pepper at this point. Give these another 3 to 5 minutes.
- By now the tomato sauce should be getting quite thick. Transfer this to the frying pan with the vegetables. Leave this to simmer for about ten minutes. Whilst this is going on your pasta should have just about been cooked. Drain it and mix in a little olive oil or butter to stop it sticking together. Add the sauce when done, and serve with a sprinkling of Parmesan.
Igor Trailer
Eddie Izzard as Dr. Schadenfreude
Eddie as Dr. Schadenfreude in Igor
Eddie as Erich Fellgiebel in Valkyrie
Prince Caspian Trailer
Prince Caspian - Official Trailer
The official trailer premiered online in December 5th, 2007. Also, the first uploaded on YouTube. There are plenty of websites out there telling the synopsis of the movie, or you could read the book yourself, so I won't bother describing the story here ;) For the ones who wonder, YES, it is the White Witch inside the ice prison. Don't worry, this part IS in the book. (although SHE doesn't really appear, the idea is the same)
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Eddie is Reepicheep in Prince Caspian
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Eddie Izzard backs new speakers' corners plan in Nottingham
Eddie News: Feb 23, 2008
Comedian Eddie Izzard is backing plans for a national network of Speakers' Corners.The stand-up star is to launch Nottingham Speakers' Corner on Friday - the first to be created since the one in Hyde Park 150 years ago.
Izzard told BBC One's Politics Show yesterday: "Freedom of speech is wonderful. It's good Nottingham is doing this and I think other towns should do it too."
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The Riches on DVD
The Riches - Season 1
Amazon Price: $30.49 (as of 12/20/2009) 
Across The Univers - Mr. Kite
Eddie as Mr. Kite
Eddie as Mr. Kite
Where Do You Know Eddie Izzard From?
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Wikipedia: Eddie Izzard
Edward John "Eddie" Izzard (born 7 February 1962) is a two-time Emmy-winning British stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy style is expressed in rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. Izzard's works include standup sets Definite Article, Dress to Kill and a starring role in the television series The Riches as Wayne Malloy. He is also known for his transvestism.Chris Roberts, Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind Rhyme, Thorndike Press, 2006 (ISBN 0-7862-8517-6)
Eddie Websites
- Eddie Izzazrd
- Mr. Izzard's official webpage.
- Recycle Now TV Ads
- Eddie provided the voice for a couple of recycling ads in the UK.
- Alien Invasion
- Eddie did a short film for Greenpeace UK. Aliens talk about taking over the Earth.
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Eddie's Movies
Shadow of the Vampire
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Ocean's Thirteen
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Velvet Goldmine
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My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Matt Saunders (Wilson) thinks he's found the perfe more...0 points
Renegade (aka Blueberry)
Renegade (original English-language title: Blueber more...0 points
The Cat's Meow
From acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich comes Th more...0 points
Revengers Tragedy
A scathing black comedy about love, sex, family, m more...0 points
5 Children & It
What would you wish for if you were granted a new more...0 points
All the Queen's Men
WWII spy comedy. An American army officer (Matt Le more...0 points
The Secret Agent
London of the late 19th century is a haven for pol more...0 points
Ocean's Twelve
They're back. And then some. Twelve is the new ele more...0 points
Cake or Death?
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- Kelly Kelly Oct 10, 2009 @ 8:37 am
- Cake! Izzard is all that & more.
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- WindyWinters WindyWinters Jan 2, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
- Wow! Nice tribute to Eddie Izzard! Now, I know who he is!! I really enjoy reading/making SquidWho lens! Well Done! 5* Cheers :)
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- boshemia boshemia Dec 21, 2008 @ 12:26 am
- I think I will just die right here, happy forever! Love, love, love the lens... Meeting him? In real life? Dies again!
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- fredo3303 fredo3303 Sep 16, 2008 @ 11:20 am
- Love Eddie Izzard, Love the lens. Well done
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- SemperFidelis SemperFidelis Oct 13, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
- You beat me to Eddie Izzard! I considered doing a SquidWho lens on Eddie, but you've done a fine job. A 5 to you! Consider stopping by our Recycling lens and giving a rating. :)
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- GypsyPirate GypsyPirate Oct 11, 2007 @ 9:51 pm
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