I'm a slayer, ask me how.

Well, that was a crazy 2 days! We woke up bright and early Thursday morning and had clear sailing all the way to the New Jersey Transit station. Took the train into NYC and met up with jimithingy's friend. Wandered around, ate some food, got a sampling of typical NYC life (MetroBus ran into a Taxi and both drivers started to shout at each other, crazy woman got on our subway car and preached about Jesus for two awkward stops, and we almost got whacked by 1 a.m. frisbee players).

But who cares about that stuff, I know you want to hear about Eddie!

Clearly, these shows are building up to another full-on tour. The performance didn't start until 10:30 p.m. and was in a tiny theater that probably sat @ 500 people at most. But the place was packed. Eddie just wandered on stage in jeans and a shirt with a jacket. He had his Riches haircut and beard. It was clear that this night was a test. Eddie was going to just babble and see what kind of reaction he got to bits so he can choose what to create a show out of. First thing he did was go off on a tangent about what went wrong with the Matrix movies. Then he talked about Wikipedia and how ridiculous it is. He asked the audience to shout out a topic and he would look it up on Wikipedia to see the entry. Someone yelled out "thumbtacks" and voila - comedy gold! He just read the entry and sat there giggling for a bit. He did do a small joke about libraries because you can't talk about Wikipedia without talking about "traditional reference materials". I was amused.

The overall theme that I was getting had to do with people who interpret religious text as LITERAL things. Eddie spent a good portion of time talking about how silly it is to think that the Bible is being literal. He wished for some "radical moderate" religious people to start making headlines because he's tired of seeing the crazy extremes on the news. This led into a bit about the evolution of civilization. Jokes about the Stone Age, the Egyptians, the Druids, the Greeks, and Romans. Also a bit on language and giraffes. And a quick stab at Macs vs PCs (and the PC nerds actually boo'd! Have a sense a humor guys!!). He also discussed how he knew that the US had not faked the moon landing (this whole discussion came from the fact that the performance before his called for a bouncy foam on the stage, so he was bouncing as he walked) and also why Europe should send some game show hosts to the moon.

The whole thing was about 2 hours and these were some hardcore Eddie fans. It was really cool to see because it was like reading the rough draft of your favorite author's next book AND getting to give him some feedback. Some of the bits needed to be trimmed, some of them he was clearly trying for the first time, others he was making up on the spot, and there were a few that you could tell he had been mulling over for awhile, trying to find a place to fit them into a show.

Eddie was also amused to discover that there was, in fact, a "Straw-henge", something he had done in his 'Dress to Kill' show as a joke.

FYI - Eddie Izzard is performing in NYC until March 8th so any of you nutty enough to do what I did can still see him! Otherwise, I'm betting after they finish shooting season 2 of Richers, he'll do another official tour.