Eddie Izzard - Definite Article

Artist:

Izzard, Eddie

UPC:

045778674329

Description:

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 features 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. ~ Stewart Mason

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Shaftesbury Theatre
2. Thimbles & Animals
3. Supermarkets
4. Old Ladies
5. Dog Food
6. Squeezy Squeezy Things
7. Shoplifting
8. Best Laid Plans
9. Suffering Fools
10. Latin & French
11. France Exchange Trip
12. Being European
13. Romans
14. Hannibal
15. Handshakes
16. Being Cool
17. Parrots
18. Beachy Head Suicide
19. James Bond
20. Chemistry
21. Einstein/Science
22. Pavlov`s Cats
23. Big Bang Salmon

Album Information

Release Date:

11/09/2004

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Comedy

Label:

Anti (USA)

Catalog Number:

86743

Original Release Year:

2003

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Live

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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