Chicago Weekend Fun!

World famous UK standup comedian and actor Eddie Izzard is coming to do shows in Chicago for the first time since 2003. Eddie is playing 3 shows in May (15, 16, 17) at the 3,000 seat Chicago Theater on State & Lake Street in the loop.  These 3 shows will all sell out fast. Expect about an hour and a half of whip-smart comedy if you get tickets. I got tickets this morning for the Thursday and Friday shows. (Yes, I am going twice, why not?)

This is HUGE news! Eddie Izzard is one of the funniest comedians ever and I have flown to LA twice to see him perform his standup show live. (it helps to have business in LA) It is much more amazing to to see his shows in person rather than just on DVD, and they have never disappointed me.

Some people say he is great because of his Monty-Python-British-UK-Surrealist humor, others say it is because he has a unique take on the world as a transvestite, I just think he knows “funny” better than anyone and is an amazing improviser and storyteller. I recommend getting to Ticketmaster now to buy tickets. (The secret ticketmaster code for buying advance tickets before 3/16/08 via the fan club is: 1strip or 2strip see the cake or death web site if they don’t work, they change from time to time)  You can get access to the pre-sale via signing up for email alerts from Eddie Izzard at his website eddieizzard.com. If you don’t get tickets before they sell out expect them to be for sale via scalpers on Ebay and Stubhub and maybe Craigslist.

This should be a fantastically funny and intelligent show. Eddie Izzard does great thinking-comedy which is rare in the rude-crude-gross comedy climate we have today. I can’t recommend this show enough, I would give it a million star rating if possible.

Recently Eddie has been doing warm-up shows getting the content set for this tour in NYC and the people who have been blogging about them have said that he is way funnier in this show than he was in Sexie in 2003. So, go Eddie for getting your game on. Recently you may have seen Eddie Izzard in his breakout performance on the FX show The Riches. Maintaining standup comedy material at the same time as drama is really difficult, so I give him extra props for that.

If you need a refresher on why Eddie Izzard is the most brilliant stand-up comedian, visit YouTube and search on “Eddie Izzard” and view the videos of his DVDs there or go to Amazon.com to purchase them or Netflix to rent them. The names of the DVDs are: Unrepeatable, Definite Article, Glorious, Dress to Kill and Circle. (there actually are 2 others (Live from the Ambassadors and Sexie) but they aren’t available, nor as funny) 

Anyway, it will be a great show, not to miss!!