Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard (born February 7, 1962 as Edward John Izzard) is a British stand-up comedian and actor. He has a very individual style of rambling, surreal monologue. He has turned his attention to acting as well as maintaining his demanding touring schedule.

Material

Izzard states that he does not write any of his material down http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1318280,00.html. Running characters and references in his comedy include:

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• An impression of James Mason, often representing a hapless, dithering God or authority figure
• An impression of Sean Connery, whose character - which has ranged from Noah to Henry VIII - usually interacts with the Mason character
• A Scottish woman called Mrs Badcrumble (his former clarinet teacher)
• The name 'Jeff' (for instance as in "Jeff Jeffty-Jeff. Born on the first of Jeff Nineteen-Jeffty-Jeff", whose computer password is 'JEFF', or Jeff Broccoli)
• jam
• soot
• banjos

He has a number of mannerisms, for instance:

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• Saying "So... yeah..." when thinking what to say next (a fact subtly noted on the back of the 'Glorious' video box)
• Saying "and, uh, ..." as the audience pictures his bizarre imagery and starts laughing
• When his stream of consciousness appears to lose the audience, holding up an imaginary pad and pen and writing "Lost them there".
• Connecting two totally irrelevant topics and pausing as the audience picks up on it "monkeys covered in jam........and thats why the pope......" (not exact quote)