Eddie Izzard's James Bond Standup Comedy Eddie Izzard's Bond Standup - Lego Style During one of his stand up routines, Eddie Izzard did a side-splitting routine about James Bond movies. In it, he discusses the humor of Q�s gadgets, Bond villain accents and more. Additionally, YouTube user used Izzard�s comedy and his Lego set to create something truly unique. Edward John "Eddie" Izzard is a double Emmy-winning English stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy style is expressed in rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. In addition to touring, he is also a television, stage and film actor and is active in charity work. In 2007, Izzard was listed as number 3 of the 100 Greatest Comedians as part of Channel 4's ongoing 100 Greatest...series. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, Izzard was voted amongst the top 20 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. He was number 75 in Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.
During the 1999 television special It's... the Monty Python Story, which Izzard hosted, John Cleese said Izzard was the "Lost Python." For more on the life and career of Eddie Izzard, please visit the WikiPedia page. Best-known for his surreal and digressive stand-up, British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard was born on February 7, 1962, in Aden, Yemen, where his English parents -- Dorothy Ella, a nurse and midwife, and Harold John Izzard, an accountant -- worked for British Petroleum. Izzard worked as a street performer and in smaller comedy venues throughout ... View agent, publicist and legal 1673 news articles » Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill Six Minutes to Midnight Bertie, Prince of Wales The LEGO Batman Movie Day Out of Days Show all 6 episodes - F@#K the Big Chiller - Aha Shake Heartbreak - You Are Not It - The Raconteur of the Funeral Circuit Show all 10 episodes The Devil You Know Monty Python Live (Mostly)
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See all 11 videos » He appeared in the tribute to Spike Milligan, "Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill", at the Guildhall Theatre in London, England with Eric Sykes, Kathy Burke, John Dankworth, Harry Enfield, Terry Jones, Cleo Laine, Paul Merton, Michael Palin, John Sergeant, Meera Syal and Stephen Tompkinson in the cast. George Martin and Giles... 3 Magazine Cover Photos | [on spending time in New York City]: They only have a few days -- go see a big musical like Billy Elliot. If you have more time, see me show. Uses 3 distinct voices in most of his one-man shows - God (James Mason), Sean Connery (several, including Noah) and Mrs. Badcrumble (Scottish clarinet teacher). In real life, Mrs. Badcrumble was his piano teacher as a young boy. Often wears his choice of "male" and "female" clothing during his stand-up acts. Stop what you’re doing and take a moment to wish the brilliant, cross-dressing comedian Eddie Izzard a “happy birthday.” The man is a British national treasure, and I’m flabbergasted that he hasn’t been knighted already.
Eddie is like a super-combo of Monty Python and Tim Curry in Rocky Horror Picture Show. Even if the Queen isn’t a fan of his stand-up, she’s got to tip her tastefully conservative hat to how good he looks in a Chinese silk qipao. It’s a crime that he isn’t cast in more movies. Oh, you never saw it? Better rectify that mistake tonight, because it is the best movie ever. But I’ll save that rant for another time. Today is about Eddie. Since everyone is so jazzed about Legos right now, what with The Lego Movie premiere, it seems only fitting to celebrate Eddie with his top three best stand-up routines as played by Lego people. I don’t know what it is about Lego people, but they are side-splittingly funny — kind of like animal voice-overs. How can you not laugh at that? (Wishbone, Homeward Bound, Milo & Otis…) So get ready for the laugh of your life, because I’m treating you to Lego people and Eddie Izzard, you lucky dog. 1. Death Star Canteen: “There must have been a Death Star canteen.
There must have been a cafeteria downstairs — in between battles — where Darth Vader could just chill. I will have the penne all’arrabbiata.” 2. Tea and Cake or Death?: “You can’t say, ‘You must have tea and cake with a vicar or you die!’ You can’t have extreme points of view. The Spanish Inquisition would never have worked in the Church of England. Oh, sorry, loosen it up a bit will you?” 3. James Bond’s Gadgetry: “The jam trousers were f—ing useless.”November 20th, 2008 by Kelly Guimont Man oh man do I like James Bond. Old movies and new, Connery AND Craig. I don’t need it to be all gadgets and over the top pickup lines to be entertaining, but boy the stuff Q would come up with! I know people were eight kinds of worked up over “Blonde Bond” but I think he’s doing a fine job and I can’t wait to see the next two (it is said the next one will be the end of this “trilogy” and the one after that will be whatever they want). I read all the books a long time ago and I’m working my way through them again.
They are really good and pretty short so there’s not a lot of extra stuff to wade through just to read the good bits. This new movie (which I got to see on my birthday Sunday and I really enjoyed) is called Quantum Of Solace which is only a short story title and has nothing to do with the film’s plot (sort of like the last two Bourne movies). Well in honor of the Bond franchise in general I have seen a couple of interesting things I thought I’d blog about today. What I like most about the movies is that they are very stylish and all of the designy things that go into them are really fun. So here you go: They started as books, so I’ll mention the release of Quantum Of Solace the complete James Bond short story collection. It’s GORGEOUS and you can get it from Powell’s. I want one but not to read, just to look at. I think I have all the short stories, so this would be strictly a “look at my book but for pete’s sake don’t read it” book. Swatch has released a series of Bond Villain watches which are fun to browse through.