Date Posted:05/ 6/08 11:17am Author: lyn Subject: This is kind of...interesting.
From a blogger who saw Stripped:
Dear Eddie Izzard,
Editing wikipedia....waiting for your mac to update itself and then noticing no freaking difference afterwards....realizing that NO ONE has ever read the iTunes agreement all the way through....This is comedy. Your opinion on issues such as politics & religion, while they may be comedy, they are just that: your opinion. Did I pay money so that you could ridicule things I believe in, such as God & creationism? Did I pay $60 after ticketbastard charges so that YOU could try and convince me of your unresearched opinions? Well, I guess I DO have to give you slight credit. You did offer a disclaimer where you said that you did most of your research through the "telly." Greeeeat. Since I don't watch TV hardly at ALL, this makes ME think that you 1) have a lot of time on your hands, and 2) don't bother doing much else than watching TV...and....generating a comedy routine from it. Seriously?
I'd seen your DVDs...listened to your CDs...and you were genuinely FUNNY....when you spoke about pop culture or generic history, even American history! Prehistoric history and God: not really topics that I enjoy being preached to about. Oh, excuse me....you wouldn't agree with the word "preaching," would you? For someone who uses the "golden rule" as their life's philosophy, you sure don't take it seriously. Would YOU like it if I put down YOUR views? Hmm. Think on that one for a hot minute.
Not to mention the acoustics in the place SUCKED. I guess DAR Constitution Hall is better for music acts than for comedians. And I guess old school Eddie Izzard is the stuff I'm going to stick to, if I ever really feel like listening to you again. You just...weren't funny. (even though people were, surprisingly, laughing) Just...not....funny. Tell jokes, not opinions, and maybe I'll give you another chance. But not likely.
God has a sense of humor, but no one likes being made mocked.
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Just in case you were wondering I did NOT write this! :) -- Amy, 05/ 6/08 11:47am
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neither did I but feel like I would have done so... -- Poule roulante, 05/ 6/08 12:38pm
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Someone who believes in Creationism going to see Eddie Izzard is like someone who is Amish going to see Louis Black -- Amy, 05/ 6/08 12:45pm
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Speaking of Louis Black... he's in town Friday and I didn't know it until it was too late to get tickets and take the day off. -- Teri, 05/ 6/08 1:55pm
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Not sure, but there's the Dinosaur B-B-Q... pretty yummy...but packed on a Friday night. Maybe I'll go stand by the stage door after work and see if he comes out. Not the Dinosaur stage door, because that would be foolish but I would meet Dave Hanlon(whoever he is)...I mean the Landmark Theater stage door... -- Teri~talking rubbish, 05/ 6/08 4:40pm
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The creationism person sounds like the Catholic couple who loudly stomped out of the nearly front row of a Bill Maher concert. Who the hell goes to see controversial comedian in person without any knowledge of his act?!? -- Cheesy ...."get out of the line!!!!!", 05/ 6/08 10:04pm
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This person is really familiar with Eddie's stuff? I don't think they've seen recent stuff, like Circle (love the jesus discs bit...) But everyone is entitled to their opinion. -- Teri~looking forward to, 05/ 6/08 1:48pm
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Damn.... hit send too quickly... that meant to say Looking forward to Radio City! -- Teri~going away now..., 05/ 6/08 1:50pm
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As you well know - I didn't think Circle OR Sexie were very funny either. I did like the warm up gigs for Circle I saw in 2000, but I think I was in the midst of my Eddie-mania then. I do think it's been pretty downhill since D2K -- Amy, 05/ 6/08 2:00pm
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He is good except I can understand what this person is saying, he makes jokes about things and apparently doesn't have all the facts because he can't be bothered, it's like he doesn't care enough about his act to make sure he at least knows what he's talking about he just excuses the whole thing by saying I saw it on telly. -- Amy, 05/ 6/08 3:11pm
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I hit the return key too quickly - I meant to add that Louis (Lewis?) Black and Bill Maher, they know what they're talking about before they get political or religious. -- Amy, 05/ 6/08 3:13pm
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Bill Maher has a documentary about religion coming out! I think it's being released this summer...click for more -- magic1, 05/ 6/08 4:48pm
Lionsgate to Release Larry Charles/Bill Maher Anti-Religion Documentary
Posted on Friday, July 13th, 2007 at 2:51 am by: Peter Sciretta
We’re really excited about this one. Someone has finally acquired US distribution rights to the Larry Charles/Bill Maher anti-Religion documentary. From what I understand footage from the film was shown at Cannes in an attempt to nab a buyer. The footage was said to be amazing, but most studios were afraid to make a move due to the controversial nature of the doc. Not much is known about the film. This is Charles first project since directing Borat. Maher promises that “this movie will make you laugh so hard you’ll pray for it to stop.” Lionsgate hopes to expand into 1,000 screens with this release which makes me wonder if it is expected to have that much mass appeal. The film has been hyped as “Borat” meets “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
When it was first announced, the documentary was described as “examining the presence of religion in many of the big news stories of recent years, from Muslim riots over cartoons to the Ten Commandments in front of courthouses, a born-again Christian in the White House and Scientology in the birthing room.” “Is religion an obsessive-compulsive disorder?” asks Charles, who bills his movie as “Bill Maher vs. the Anti-Christ (or is Bill Maher the Anti-Christ?)”
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I haven't been impressed with any of Eddies newer stuff. Any of it. He CAN be brilliant, what happened? Eddie needs to do... something, no idea what. I just saw George Carlin again recently. He's kicked it up a notch. Whole new act, up to date, topical, knew his shit. Cellphones, texting, myspace, God, everything. I expcted to see the terribly bitter, nasty man I saw last time. I didn't. He was terribly funny. -- Bry... Carlin is 70 now. I hope Eddie finds his groove again before then., 05/ 7/08 2:08am
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I long for the funny George Carlin..the last show I saw of his on HBO was just as you said, terribly bitter, nasty man. -- Teri, 05/ 7/08 5:30pm
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From what I've seen of Eddie's recent material, he's opinionated for sure, but he isn't demeaning or rude. If you can't stand to have your faith questioned, are you sure it's faith? And are you sure you want to pay to see someone who questions EVERYTHING as their act? She has only herself to blame for her bad time, I think. Sense of humor is so personal, tho'. I agree with Jimmy Carr that it's like sexual orientation - you can't help liking what you like and not liking what you don't -- annette, 05/ 6/08 3:26pm
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I would say the same, that she needs to lighten up, but the fact that she likes his old material means she does have some sense of humor. I can understand where she's coming from, I remember him making jokes about baseball, and I was thinking, would he think it was funny if an American comedien was doing jokes about rugby or soccer, kinda pissed me off -- Amy, 05/ 6/08 3:54pm
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I think it's true that everyone has their sensitive spots, and most people can dish it out better than they can take it, Eddie included most likely. I'm surprised, though, that this person is just now getting offended because he's taking the piss out of Creationism. She's OK with making fun of churches, religious leaders, religious practices like hymns and holidays, jokes about Jesus...but don't point out that there was a long stretch of volcanos and dinosaurs before humans came on the scene? Seems a weird topic to stand one's ground on. Takes all kinds, I guess. -- annette, 05/ 6/08 4:11pm
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This new mania of Creationism and the evilan-er-Evangelicals just fries my brain!!!I have a set of children's encyclopedias from 1912,& the differnt volumes contain many interesting facts & photos & illustrations about cycles of nature and creatures and planets and what have you,and the expected Bible stories and Christmas & holiday things,WONDERFUL spooky Halloween stuff with no concern that it is 'of the Devil'-and all the latest up to the minute info on fossils & dinosaurs,with no suggestion that all were created together 2000 years ago,like those "...who believe the Flintstones is a documentary....",to quote the inimitable Lewis Black... -- Gaby, 05/ 6/08 6:38pm
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Everyone's sense of humor is different depending on their mood, and what they may have going on in their lives at the moment. Sometimes what's funny to me one day, isn't as funny the next. Or the exact opposite~what isn't funny one day, will crack me up a few days later when i think about it. Maybe she went to see Eddie on a off day?.... -- Ellie, 05/ 6/08 6:18pm
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AND furthermore dear Ms. Poule!!! Not only could a witty soul like yourself NEVER generate the ignorant rantings and drivel of the blogger quoted above,you are simply incapable of a sentence as ungrammatical as 'no one likes being made mocked'... -- Gaby(waving), 05/ 6/08 6:47pm
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Not to pick on you in particular,dahlink!Just by way of saying hello... These creationists(trying to be respectful so I deleted "cuckoo-birds")need to take the tour of a cave somewhere and learn how slowly stalactites are formed by water dripping and depositing an infinitesimal ring of limestone on top of the last...but then I guess they would just say,but those big ones over there were all formed on the same day by Jesus right after the loaves and fishes thing... and no, I was not alive in 1912.But I am beginning to feel like I was. -- Gaby, 05/ 6/08 7:03pm
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I was at that show (didn't notice the acoustics though) and he was hitting the religion aspect a little hard and not really in a funny or observant way either. That said, he did have interesting points. They just weren't funny. -- kathryn_dc, 05/ 7/08 4:42pm
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hhmmm, interesting. I want to blame it on being early in the tour but he's been workshopping this thing for a year at least. We'll be with my 16 year old who still thinks everytime Eddie blinks it's hysterical so maybe we'll see him through fresh eyes. -- Teri~Ah, those were the days, eh?, 05/ 7/08 5:33pm
