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Eddie Izzard: Stripped Too – The Big Intimacy Tour

Last night I saw a bit of history. Not only was it my first time seeing the brilliant Eddie Izzard on stage, but it turns out he's the first English comedian to ever play Madison Square Garden. And it was a-ma-zing. Fucking brilliant! Why I waited this long to see him live I will not ever understand.

While we were waiting for the show to begin, and during intermission, two large screens from the set were scrolling tweets directed to @eddieizzard on Twitter. It took about 15 minutes for my tweet to appear on the screen, so some stranger named @missed was read by the thousands of people who were sitting in their seats early. Two people proposed to their dates on the screen as well. The tweets also scrolled during the one intermission. There was a promo movie showcasing "Believe," the upcoming Izzard documentary, and at the end of the show a short about his famous run.

Eddie hit the stage and said he was going to discuss everything, with large bits missing here and there. He did and it was fucking brilliant. He covered everything from God and his sons Asus, Besus, Cesus, Desus, Esus, Fsus, Jesus, to Noah's Ark (slaughter by the lions and tigers with a squid who hid in the cupboard and a squirrel, who's wife fled with the owl and a pussycat on a boat, being the only survivors. The squirrel, by the way, was interviewed by BBC World News heh), dinosaurs, including a raptor who downloaded porn, oh yes... I forgot, he learned this all via Wikipedia, the Wikipedia bit was great... ancient Egyptians being visited by aliens, the ancient Greeks and Sparta with hard core sheep who would sneak up to wolf predators, sheer themselves and say "c'mon motherfucker, bring it on," the Romans and an entire bit in Latin to demonstrate how "silly, silly, silly" Latin is, to creationism versus evolution (Charles Darwin's great book "Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, You"). And on. Regulars included bees, badgers, jam and spoons, of course.

Tears flowed down my face, he was so brilliant. I will definitely see him live whenever I can from now on!

Oh, and for those wondering, no, he wasn't in drag. He was in action transvestite mode.