Friday night Stephanie & Rob, Tiffany & David, and Jason and I got to see my favorite comedian ever, Eddie Izzard. In case you don’t know Eddie is a (executive) transvestite comedian who talks about everything but mostly history and religion. He is currently staring in the Riches and has been in Velvet Goldmine, Mystery Men, Ocean’s Twelve & Thirteen, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Across the Universe, Prince Caspian and lots of others and is in the new animated film Igor (I can’t wait!)
Friday night Eddie didn’t dress in full high heels and makeup but kept to boots, a coat with tails and subdued makeup and the chosen topic was religion. I enjoyed his story of why Nashville was called Nashville “This town is nash, man!” and how the Ryman was built in the year 1585. Its a lot more fun to be able to be part of the interaction than to just view the dvd. He made a lot of good points about religion – i.e. its wrong to burn 50,000 women at the stake. I love Eddie’s impersonation of giraffes (no, not evil giraffes) and that he is a fan of mac “I’m sure the pc is a fine machine… its just not as sexy.”
I love Eddie and he is hysterical but towards the end my butt was winning the “More Eddie/I’m Done” battle. The balcony of the Ryman is a lot better than the floor as far as being able to see what is going on but at least when we went to see Bright Eyes there was a lot of standing. Remind me to bring a cushion next time I go to the Ryman.
Oh yeah…go Eddie! That was the BAUMB! I loved it! Would definitely suffer through the beating my ass took for the two+ hours we were there just to see him again! LOL! It was AWESOME!