Recorded one night at the Albert Theatre in March 1994, when Eddie Izzard was playing a limited seven week sold-out run of his celebrated stand-up show. Recorded one night at the Albert Theatre in March 1994, when Eddie Izzard was playing a limited seven week sold-out run of his celebrated stand-up show. Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable (1994.
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Recorded at the Albery Theatre one night in March 1994. Eddie Izzard delivers over 70 minutes of scatological material to a sold out crowd.
He covers everything from films, Star Trek, cats, shopping and supermarkets. Back in 1994 Izzard was still of the mind that comedy should not be made for TV in fact it was rare for any of his live shows to be put on TV. To this day he hasn't been tempted to make a sitcom in the same way as other standups of his generation have (Lee Evans' `so what now' shows he was right!). This show is a perfect example of Eddie at his best his mind going in a million different directions but being held in place by his original script, his ideas surprising and delighting the audience.
It may not hold up to repeated viewings, but it's still very funny while it's fresh. Izzard is a transvestite but this isn't his show in fact it barely matters after the first 30 seconds. You can see the influence of Monty Python and The Goons in his work his surreal thought process is straight from Milligan himself (RIP). In terms of stand up shows this video shows that Eddie Izzard deserves his place as one of the best and for not cheaply taking his comedy into the first TV sitcom that came begging, he deserves all our respect.
Eddie Izzard stumbled around stages aimlessly for years before he sorted out his skill set and how to play an audience. His self belief and dogged determination set him apart from doubtless scores of others you've never heard of because they gave up too soon. This film charts his glacial rise from obscurity to toast of the town and offers a bizarre media story that heretofore escaped notice on this continent.
Some dirt box at a Brit TV show no one in the U.S. Cares about called out Eddie as a 'fraud' for saying he was using new material on his latest tour, when what he does (which had been pains-takingly spelled out for major media outlets) is start with big pieces of his old tour and introduce new material as the tour progresses. But it turned into a whole big kerfluffle and the ratings grab put Eddie on ice for a while as he tried to absorb this unjust accusation. (Many comics do the SAME EXACT material for YEARS or for the LIFE of their career.
Eddie is a champion of fresh material.) 'Believe' is full of clips from Izzard's shows, his childhood, and some archival footage of some of his first attempts at taking the stage. Intercut with all of these is present-day narrative of what Izzard thinks the key to his success thus far has been. The task of editing this material seems simple compared to how hard it must have been to source it all and figure out what to use where. One scene in particular casts the Pin-Drop Effect on the whole auditorium. My mascara ran. It's a great combination of self-revelation and self-promotion. Very inspiring.