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Date Posted: 11:22:57 12/01/03 Mon
Author: .
Subject: Re: Since this board is still here
In reply to: spoot 's message, "Since this board is still here" on 12:38:28 08/07/03 Thu

>Another review huns!
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>
>Eddie Izzard at the Aotea Centre
>
>08.08.2003 Reviewed by PETER CALDER
>
>British comedian Izzard calls his show Sexie and
>explains that "it could have been called 'elbow' but
>'elbow' doesn't sound as sexy as 'sexie'."
>
>His comedy is strictly for people who understand the
>twisted and unassailable logic of that sentence.
>
>His joke-free standup, which he describes as "talking
>complete crap for two hours a night", is winningly
>amusing because it follows a map even its creator
>can't read, but the trip is never boring.
>
>Izzard arrives here in the early stages of a tour
>which will culminate in Wembley Stadium (he thinks
>big, this boy) at Christmas and there's a real sense
>of watching a work in creation in this generous
>100-minute show. He writes imaginary notes to himself
>about the flat bits, reading them aloud as he "writes"
>them: "Don't. Try. That. Again" and then wondering why
>he's "writing" with his left hand when he's
>right-handed.
>
>But it's hard to escape the impression that
>Izzard-in-progress is better than Izzard-fully-formed
>would be (assuming there could ever be such a thing).
>This is a man who stands in front of us while his
>synapses fizz and crackle and lets us listen to the
>soundtrack and the feedback. He's best when he's lost,
>like the guide dog he impersonates, looking at the map
>from every angle and shrugging.
>
>The comedian's special brand is as a heterosexual
>cross-dresser (a male lesbian, he called himself in
>one interview) but anybody who goes looking for a drag
>act will see something more subtle. Sure, those are
>slacks, not trousers, and that shirt is cut into the
>waist, but even with a glimpse of lacy bra peeping out
>and a few episodes of gorgeous pouting, he looks less
>sexy than he apparently feels.
>
>It's in what he says, rather than how he looks, that
>Izzard's appeal resides. From the opening affectionate
>riffing on the Kiwi accent (he has a lot of fun with
>"dick" and "deck" before observing that "all your
>vowels have moved across one") through to the encore,
>an utterly weird impression of Christopher Walken's
>watch speech in Pulp Fiction, he keeps us hooked. The
>invention of fire, and the idea that racing greyhounds
>might one day work out that what they are chasing is
>not a real rabbit, are rich sources of fun.
>
>It's no small achievement to command a stage alone.
>Apart from a little help from Tom Jones in the
>pre-show and an indecently kitsch light show to start
>each half, Izzard plays with nothing but a microphone
>for company.
>
>Sure, there are flat spots, but at his best Izzard
>sustains what distinguishes the best comedy - the
>impression that he's making it up as he goes along.

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