Cake, please.

May 27, 2003 11:11 AM

Cake or Death? The spectacularly funny British comic Eddie Izzard, currently on Broadway in A Day In The Death of Joe Egg has revamped his web site (warning: irritating flash animation & audio), and annouced that he is coming on tour, starting Down Under and continuing throughout Canada & The U.S. For those NY mefites, check out Joe Egg while you can, it is depressing but simultaneously funny, and anyone who hasn't seen Eddie either live or on HBO, do yourself a favor and catch a show, it's good stuff.
posted by jonson (35 comments total)

Thank you for flying Church of England.
posted by nthdegx at 11:15 AM on May 27, 2003

Woo! New U.S. tour! Best news I've heard all day! (I'm supposing this means the DVD for Circle is finally being released here, as well.)

[James Mason]Holy Ghost, this is not an episode of Scooby-Doo.[/James Mason]
posted by scody at 11:20 AM on May 27, 2003

And dammit, again he fails to come anywhere close to me. I'm exceedingly jealous of anyone that gets to go see him live. You're all a bunch of bastards.

Yes, but have you got a flag?
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:25 AM on May 27, 2003

Note to Eddie: Some of us below the Mason-Dixon line do have a touch of class.
posted by Cyrano at 11:33 AM on May 27, 2003

I'll be catching him in Philly once they announce the venue. It'll be more fun than putting babies on spikes!
posted by RubiX^3 at 11:39 AM on May 27, 2003

This is pretty much just for Ufez:



(Although, I think my friend here speaks well to the frustrations of all the Eddie-less.)
posted by Cyrano at 11:51 AM on May 27, 2003

Eddie reprising his entire act in French is one of the funniest things I've ever seen ... next to a butch Eddie as henchman No. 4 in the Avengers movie.
posted by hairyeyeball at 12:03 PM on May 27, 2003

Splashy splashy, Cyrano.
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:05 PM on May 27, 2003

And if you've not seen him in Joe Egg.... well.... you should.

Go now.
posted by grabbingsand at 12:09 PM on May 27, 2003

I've always wanted to start a band called "Slut Bonwalla".
posted by jpoulos at 12:19 PM on May 27, 2003

I always wanted to be in a band called Marzipan Badger, but that's neither here nor there.
posted by Cobbler at 12:25 PM on May 27, 2003

...et le singe est...disparu.

This is the best news I've heard in...a while, at least. Thanks!
posted by arco at 12:29 PM on May 27, 2003

oh my god.. i'm so going to the cleveland appearance... this is the best news ever!

are tickets already on sale?
posted by lotsofno at 12:46 PM on May 27, 2003

Achilles (with foot encased in a block of concrete): Would you come over here? I've got something to show you...
posted by Ty Webb at 12:46 PM on May 27, 2003

Cyrano: he makes reference to a Texas show in Dress To Kill.
posted by kevspace at 12:52 PM on May 27, 2003

Anyone know where that link to the Engelbert Humptyback clip is from Dress to Kill? I downloaded it once and never found it again....
posted by sparky at 1:56 PM on May 27, 2003

Aw yeah, he hits Washington in late October! I'm gonna be the first one in line (online?) tomorrow morning when the tickets go on sale! Thank you, jonson!

"Charles, it's not Christmas!"
posted by GreyWingnut at 1:58 PM on May 27, 2003

I'll have cake, please.
posted by WolfDaddy at 2:11 PM on May 27, 2003

Argh, like the rest my Southern friends, I will also remain Izzard-less. Eddie's all a girl could ever want in a man: great sense of humor, thriving career, and the ability to share a wardrobe and make-up on a whim.

Jumps on her scooter. Ciao.
posted by lychee at 2:17 PM on May 27, 2003

Best news ever! I'm a huge fan of Eddie and am so excited, seems like I've been waiting forever for this. Ahh, getting all choked up! Somebody perform my maneuver on me... the me maneuver... Hilda!
posted by re.becca at 2:17 PM on May 27, 2003

This is quite exciting. I've been wanting to see Eddie live for quite some time. In fact, I've been wanting to meet Eddie live for some time. I think I'd invite him to have a cup of coffee.
posted by Dreama at 2:41 PM on May 27, 2003

The only British comedian I could ever stand was Rodney Dangerfield.
posted by rocketman at 2:57 PM on May 27, 2003

"I think I'd invite him to have a cup of coffee."

with a spoon in it?

or covered in bees?
posted by lotsofno at 6:41 PM on May 27, 2003

I liked Eddie in Shadow of the Vampire
posted by balinx at 6:48 PM on May 27, 2003

come on eddie, come to atlanta!
posted by mcsweetie at 7:22 PM on May 27, 2003

My 11-year old daughter, as far back as three years ago, could recite almost verbatim the whole "Cake Or Death" routine. Izzard rulz.
posted by davidmsc at 8:29 PM on May 27, 2003

davidmsc: You let your eight-year old daughter watch/listen to Eddie Izzard?!? You are one cool parent!

You're right up there with my folks, who introduced me to Tom Lehrer when I was five and George Carlin when I was about ten.
posted by GreyWingnut at 5:42 AM on May 28, 2003

11th row seats in detroit!
posted by lotsofno at 7:25 AM on May 28, 2003

Thank you so much for posting this! I didn't know the tickets were going on sale today. Thanks to you, I was able to get front row center tickets for the Cleveland show. Did you get tickets lotsofno?
posted by rlb141 at 7:26 AM on May 28, 2003

Front row, baby! I'm in the front row for the first DC show!

I just kept hitting refresh until Ticketmaster opened the sales on this thing. And I took the best seats in the house, so that no one else could have them. I am an evil herbivore.
posted by GreyWingnut at 7:36 AM on May 28, 2003

w00t! Front row in Boston. Thanks for this thread, jonson!
posted by jpoulos at 7:52 AM on May 28, 2003

Yup, I also got seats for the Detroit show. Thanks for the tip!!
posted by greengrl at 8:14 AM on May 28, 2003

man, everyone got front row seats... i feel like a chump...
posted by lotsofno at 9:06 AM on May 28, 2003

This made my DAY. I'm considering flying somewhere ridiculously far away from me just to catch the show. And on a geek note, did anyone notice the '.izz' extension on all his site's pages? I love it...
posted by ariana at 9:07 AM on May 28, 2003

5th row in S.F. Aw yeah.

Isn't he from Europe, where the history's from?
posted by Sr_Cluba at 12:33 PM on May 28, 2003