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Eddie Izzard

05/16/2008 12:16 AM Filed in: Personal
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Well, I don't know what to say. For the first night of our little road trip, we went to go see a performance from my favorite comedian: Eddie Izzard.

The guy is an absolute genius: a rock star among his fellow comics. The show started with bright lights and loud music; Eddie walked on stage and bowed to either side of the audience amidst what had to be some of the loudest applause I'd ever heard.

From there he said he wanted to talk "about everything that has ever happened." And he did.

He talked about hamsters, badgers, and giraffes. He mimed dinosaurs going to church, Noah's wife trying to keep the ark clean, and Latin-speaking people trying to conjugate their language quickly enough to warn each other of danger. He made mince meat of a few hecklers, he showed us how the stone age began, and he explained why there are very few movies about farmers ("farming is so dull...'Earl, you killed by cabbage! I'm gonna poison your asparagus'").

I've been a fan for a long time, and getting to see him in person was an awesome treat and one more thing I can check off my "bucket list."

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