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Track List:
01. Glorious
02. In Bed With God
03. Noah On Speed
04. The Tyranny of Ducks
05. The River Styx
06. Mystic Hopscotch
07. Fill Me With The Gobi Desert
08. Six Million Dollar Queen
09. Do You Think I'm Sexy
10. Helen of Troy
11. Achilles Footwear
12. A Huge Fuck-Off Horse
13. A Play On Nativity
14. Crazy St. Peter
15. Swiss Protection
16. The Nottingham Twang
17. My Name Is Tracy
18. Deus Ex Machina
19. They Lie To Us
20. Hell In A Shower
21. The Flight Of The Volkswagen
22. Birdsuck
23. I've Got A Bad Feeling
24. Death By Chocolate
25. Armageddon
British comedian Eddie Izzard wears makeup, platform heels, and a shimmering magenta suit in Glorious, a video of his standup act filmed in England. Izzard takes a little bit of Robin Williams, a little bit of Jerry Seinfeld, even a little bit of Bob Newhart, but the final mix is absolutely his own and dizzily funny. It's not so much the subjects of his humor--though not many comics make jokes about classical mythology or evil giraffes--as it is the way he fluidly skips from thing to thing in a madcap free-associative whirl. He lulls you by seeming casual and almost sloppy, but when he needs to be precise his gestures and mimicry are razor sharp. There have been a million tired jokes made about trying to get a shower to stay at the right temperature, but Izzard manages to make even that funny. He's even funnier when he's imitating Sean Connery as Noah, trying to convince God that a speedboat would make a much better photo opportunity than an ark, or playing a beekeeper flirting with someone passing on the street. Much of the giddiness comes from his astounding sense of spontaneity. Half the show seems to have been made up on the spot, and if it wasn't, you boggle wondering how he could have possibly written something so ridiculous and yet appropriate. Though he uses a number of four-letter words, his humor is surprisingly clean, and even the most frank vulgarities seems like a bit of impish innocence coming out his mouth. Glorious indeed.
--Bret Fetzer (Amazon.com)
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