Eddie Izzard – Jam and Badgers
Went to see Eddie Izzard last night at the Cardiff CIA. The guy is brilliantly, beautifully insane. Just a brief mention about his billion-mile-run for Sport Relief, then he went on to talk about ‘everything that has ever happened’.
Izzard hardly ever tells a joke, and much like a surreal Bill Hicks his humour comes from observation and protest. Izzard’s protest is much more subtle, of course, and buried amongst discussions about speeding raptors, hungry badgers, Northern Romans, set-upon squirrels, startled Nazis, and coughing giraffes, but it’s there nonetheless. Sometimes it’s a plea to live life without worrying Who or What is watching over us, other times it’s a dig at politics (and particular politicians).
He’s a clever, funny man. One of my favourites among many was ‘If there’s a God, why didn’t he flick Hitler’s head off?’
And he still does love his badgers and jam. Though rarely together.
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