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Eddie Izzard - Unrepeatable
Unrepeatable is one of Izzard's more traditional sets of material. In fact, the opening ten-minute riff on the travails of laundry day, "Are You Happy With Your Wash?," might as well be by a British-accented Jerry Seinfeld. Izzard quickly moves away from the standard observational humor into his own mildly surreal worldview, starting with a piece about Prince Charles' then-current problems with hecklers and moving on to the political and historical pieces that have since become the mainstay of his act. (Who else would do a long piece about auctioneers at Sotheby's?) Although this is probably Izzard's most conventional stand-up comedy set, fans of later, better-known routines like Dress to Kill will appreciate Unrepeatable, not least because the early roots of that album's central routines about Izzard's transvestism can be found in this set's "Bloke in a Dress."
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39.1 MB @ 80 kbps. MP3 Mono. Duration: 68:41
Eddie Izzard - Definite Article
The London Sunday Times has called him "the greatest British stand-up comedian of his generation" and the entity of Eddie Izzard is worthy of such praise. This comedian, actor and transvestite has bewitched the world of comedy into a kitschy, campy and cunning mix while adding a bit of British flair to American humor and it's brilliant.
Briefly available on CD upon its 1996 release but not widely distributed until Anti Records reissued all of Eddie Izzard's early albums in 2004, Definite Article is the second of Izzard's mid-'90s run of stand-up showcases. A huge creative leap forward from 1994's much more conventional Unrepeatable, Definite Article was recorded in December 1995 on the last night of a ten-week stand at London's Shaftesbury Theater. (The first several minutes, in fact, are a hilarious routine about how difficult it is to locate the theater.) Coming as it does at the end of a long run of doing the same material, Definite Article fetures Izzard being so comfortable with the material that he's largely dispensed with his usual linking material and just sort of rambles back and forth between routines. Unlike comedians like Robin Williams and Billy Connolly, whose routines were primarily improvised, Izzard is working from a script, which means that although the album's central long routine -- 20 hilarious minutes about supermarkets -- is broken up by digressions about Hitler's vegetarianism and the Queen Mum's hip replacement surgeries, he always returns to his main themes, making Definite Article a meandering but quite often hilarious journey.
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56.7 MB @ 128 kbps.
Eddie Izzard - Dress to Kill
" ...one of the pinnacles of standup comedy in the '90s." AMG
http://rapidshare.de/files/15468346/EI-DTK.rar.html
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64 MB @ 96 kbps. Length = 94 min.
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