Pourquoi the fuck elephantus?
Sorry that the last entry was f-locked. It was only to make sure that no one from the show stumbled across the entry by entering some choice keywords on google. You know, I'd like my opinions to remain unknown by the powers that be.
However, as I mentioned on that entry, I left rehearsal early on Thursday to go see Eddie Izzard. And I'm sure you all want to know how that was. ^_^
First off, laughter is healing. Not that I'm all better, but I did feel significantly improved the next morning, despite having been out late at night in bitter cold weather.
Second off, MADE OF WIN.
He wasn't in his lady-clothes. He claimed he was an "off-duty transvestite" this time around. Which worked just fine for me. The interesting thing was that the format of the show is very much the same as "Dressed To Kill" in that he waxes about history and the hilarity therein, does a bit speaking all in some foreign language (this time it's Latin, folks), and he still makes funny sound effects as he acts out action sequences. It's just new material in the standard format.
The best part about this? It's still fucking brilliant. Really, he is superbly charming as ever. And the topics that he hit on were a little further back on the planetary calendar this time: lots about the Bible and ancient Rome. Meaning that Kelsey and I were probably more amused than anyone in the audience.
Just some highlights:
On Noah's Ark - "Here's the problem; 'All right, everybody in the ark, that's right. Two tigers, two dogs, two penguins, two anteaters, two geese, two donkeys, two deer, two monkeys....' 'What have we got so far?' '...Two tigers. They're really big.'"
"No, I believe he was a real guy, we've seen floods and tsunamis and everything, they happen. But do I think God told him to build the ark? No. I mean, let's think - if we were all sitting in here and it was raining for days and days, I bet someone would eventually say, 'You know what? I'm gonna build a boat.' 'Really? That's amazing. God must have told you to do that.' 'Nope. I just think I'm gonna build a boat.'"
On Socrates - "I am Socrates. Socks. They called him 'socks' for short. No, I'm not Socks, I'm Sock's brother Kenneth."
On Intelligent Design - "See, the problem I have with that is things like the appendix. Whole fucking organ that we don't use, haven't used it for years. It's for processing the grass, right? So it keeps waiting for it; 'That lettuce has got to be some grass, right? Come on, we've got a machine here, put it through the machine! What about that broccoli? Looks like grass to me. No? Come on! Oh, asparagus? No, that's definitely grass. Come on, put it through the machine!!!' And then finally it just gets so frustrated at so many years of not being able to process grass that it tries to process some anyway and explodes."
On the Stone Age - "Then there was a New Stone Age; 'Hey everyone! Jack's got new stones!'"
On Moses - "'That's great, man! Let's get out of here! Yeah! How'd you come up with that idea?' 'A bush told me.' '...Wha-?' 'No, get this - a bush on fire.' '...Man, I really wish you hadn't told me that. Just don't tell anyone else alright? I don't feel so confident now, knowing that.'"
On the serpent of Eden - "And then God punished the serpent for giving the fruit to Eve by saying 'from now on you will crawl on your belly'.... What the fuck was the snake doing before? No, before then, all snakes got around by motorboat and they threw apples off the back of them."
Hard to get the gist without hearing how he delivers it, but... you get the idea. ;)
However, as I mentioned on that entry, I left rehearsal early on Thursday to go see Eddie Izzard. And I'm sure you all want to know how that was. ^_^
First off, laughter is healing. Not that I'm all better, but I did feel significantly improved the next morning, despite having been out late at night in bitter cold weather.
Second off, MADE OF WIN.
He wasn't in his lady-clothes. He claimed he was an "off-duty transvestite" this time around. Which worked just fine for me. The interesting thing was that the format of the show is very much the same as "Dressed To Kill" in that he waxes about history and the hilarity therein, does a bit speaking all in some foreign language (this time it's Latin, folks), and he still makes funny sound effects as he acts out action sequences. It's just new material in the standard format.
The best part about this? It's still fucking brilliant. Really, he is superbly charming as ever. And the topics that he hit on were a little further back on the planetary calendar this time: lots about the Bible and ancient Rome. Meaning that Kelsey and I were probably more amused than anyone in the audience.
Just some highlights:
On Noah's Ark - "Here's the problem; 'All right, everybody in the ark, that's right. Two tigers, two dogs, two penguins, two anteaters, two geese, two donkeys, two deer, two monkeys....' 'What have we got so far?' '...Two tigers. They're really big.'"
"No, I believe he was a real guy, we've seen floods and tsunamis and everything, they happen. But do I think God told him to build the ark? No. I mean, let's think - if we were all sitting in here and it was raining for days and days, I bet someone would eventually say, 'You know what? I'm gonna build a boat.' 'Really? That's amazing. God must have told you to do that.' 'Nope. I just think I'm gonna build a boat.'"
On Socrates - "I am Socrates. Socks. They called him 'socks' for short. No, I'm not Socks, I'm Sock's brother Kenneth."
On Intelligent Design - "See, the problem I have with that is things like the appendix. Whole fucking organ that we don't use, haven't used it for years. It's for processing the grass, right? So it keeps waiting for it; 'That lettuce has got to be some grass, right? Come on, we've got a machine here, put it through the machine! What about that broccoli? Looks like grass to me. No? Come on! Oh, asparagus? No, that's definitely grass. Come on, put it through the machine!!!' And then finally it just gets so frustrated at so many years of not being able to process grass that it tries to process some anyway and explodes."
On the Stone Age - "Then there was a New Stone Age; 'Hey everyone! Jack's got new stones!'"
On Moses - "'That's great, man! Let's get out of here! Yeah! How'd you come up with that idea?' 'A bush told me.' '...Wha-?' 'No, get this - a bush on fire.' '...Man, I really wish you hadn't told me that. Just don't tell anyone else alright? I don't feel so confident now, knowing that.'"
On the serpent of Eden - "And then God punished the serpent for giving the fruit to Eve by saying 'from now on you will crawl on your belly'.... What the fuck was the snake doing before? No, before then, all snakes got around by motorboat and they threw apples off the back of them."
Hard to get the gist without hearing how he delivers it, but... you get the idea. ;)