confession. i love eddie izzard. in a borderline freakish way. i think he’s one of the funniest people ever to walk the planet. seriously. maybe because there’s just a little bit of the dork in him–he tells jokes about henry viii and the great escape and star trek and how grandmas defy the angel of death.
eric and i saw him not long ago play a smallish venue in new york city where he told the longest-ever joke about a giraffe i’d ever heard. and i swear i almost peed my pants. long story short, the giraffes hid from tigers by pretending to be the eiffel tower. weird? sure. hi-larious? most definitely. incidentally, my mother would be horribly embarrassed if she saw i just used the phrase “peed my pants.” but, getting past that, if you haven’t heard of him and are willing to try him just because i tell you to…groovy. start with dress to kill. i SWEAR it’s worth it.
so…my gift to you today is this…eddie izzard’s vision of the “death star canteen” (yes. that death star.) as reenacted by lego characters.
thank you, internets.
June 1st, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Too funny! :)