Eddie Izzard: Secret Policeman's Ball 2008

[@theBoonarmies]

"And this bit of material doesn't work with Lions" absolutely legendary writing.

[@CyclesandThings]

Good to see old Eddie Izzard segments on here. Still looks great for 2008.

[@JacksieBloke]

Eddie Izzard is a comedy genius and a true gent,hope he does a live tour soon!

[@lukoradulic5340]

I love how he got on, didn't know where to start. So he just went from the beginning. Brilliant!

[@lacarolish]

I love this man. Just love him. And he makes me laugh, thank you Eddie Izzard!

[@kuteelagirl1]

Eddie is just a precious, PRECIOUS man...missing him here Stateside. THANK YOU for posting this.....

[@GlitterTrauma88]

Actually hold me over a pond. Hold me over a pond. I want to see what I look like. Brilliant

[@hehehecw]

Bless your heart. I didn't think I'd be able to see any of this. So great to see him close up doing that material. Big thanks.

[@davidbishop1978]

Thanks for posting this!! This man cracks me up! His comedy style and delivery made him stand out, even in the show's impressive line up. Favourite bit: the bible interview with the squirrel......

[@Joshua-nt5nh]

Literally tears from laughing at his “it was a nightmare” parts. I’ve loved this dude since I first heard him in 2005.

[@DragosMostenescu]

THIS is what I call clever, smart comedy!

[@TaloolahCorso]

he's freaking amazing

[@q7winq7]

"The Truth" is incidental to the function of comedy, and frequently the contrast is the tactic that makes much of comedy - funny. Eddie is a master of this tactic. Well done sir - and where's your dress?

[@magicman9218]

He stopped doing it when it wasn't considered edgy anymore. Now it's more taboo to be a normal straight dude

[@olgac.9636]

Magic man he didn’t stop lol

[@trilliarobinson7862]

Pretty hunky when in blokey mode, though. I believe he is now Susie/Eddie ?

[@q7winq7]

@@trilliarobinson7862 4-23-2023 - - - - I saw him on a late night comedy show a few weeks ago. He was dressed as a girl - so - who knows what's going on?

[@trilliarobinson7862]

@@q7winq7 As I understand it, he has said he is now in girl-mode, and identifies as Susie. However, he's also Eddie ...

[@nietsualb]

Asus Bsus Csus Dsus Esus Fsus Gsus He's brilliant.

[@getthefffffoffme]

Gsus4

[@josh2Sides2]

Covered in bees

[@NostalgiaKing]

"It was a fuckin' nightmare, man! You write that down in the Bible! "Fuckin' nightmare!" Mr. Squirrel said so!" Hilarious!

[@ulisesbarbosajr6930]

Eddie is a genius

[@travelmouse]

Aw such fond memories of the Stripped show in New York! Fantabulous! Eddie , you're the mostest!

[@rayreineu]

"Help me! Help me! 's a fuckin' bison!" I love this man's comedy.

[@davidhunt7025]

hey man! yh he is doing a tour near the end of the year! the tours called "Stripped" and the tickets are on sale now! ive got mine already for the 18th November woohoo!

[@Russman7777]

Finally someone submitted this, thankyou!

[@Choonzord]

Asus, Besus, Ceesus, Deesus, Eesus, Efsus, Jesus. GENIUS.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

That's absolutely not genius. If you think it is you're just dumb

[@CherryTripping]

I cant get over how much love this guy is gettin, even the negative comments arent exactly scathing or anythin... and its so true, hes awesome and sexy in a the ladies stuff!

[@19Jetta]

We owe so much to Jeff...

[@cybele0]

doncha just *love* his smile? i really like it when he sort of laughs at his own jokes. to see how much he is enjoying himself makes it even more fun, i think. anyway, thanks for sharing.

[@dhawkeye4439]

“sorry, I was dead at the time” would still work

[@niklandia]

'it was nightmare, man..write it down into the Bible, man' lmao he is the best

[@demirg1421]

Wow, Eddie killed it here

[@dragonfly3691]

Thank you for posting this

[@jeffchancellor7384]

I would love to see him as JAMES BOND! Everyone uses a script but him he adlibs everything. It would be awesome

[@proxymannen3256]

Stone age must have been new age at the time....

[@nyakwarObat]

proxy mannen yep..

[@dogestdoge7097]

Oh you’ve got a stone? How very modern of you, Jeffrey.

[@StarboyXL9]

These damn hippies, walking around with their stones all the time, killing animals so efficiently!

[@WonkyDoodle]

best act of the whole show..hands down

[@bicyclist2]

I love it! Thanks.

[@SpectralKnight]

To be fair an entire valley flooding would be seen as the end of the world for a pre technology society where normal people didn't really leave their local area.

[@3027085]

The Giraffes are playing Charades and the word is Tiger! TIE-ger! Now I get it! Eddie is awesome for pulling of jokes like this!

[@olgac.9636]

Doktor Pantaleon why charades?

[@richard6440]

@@olgac.9636 because they cant talk. They could play dominoes, but by the time the other giraffes have worked out that it is a tiger, the tiger would have eaten them :)

[@tekqist28]

eddie is wonderful love him especially in drag

[@mushroomfat]

he still rules over 20 years later

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Nah. Lee Evans is much funnier

[@MeAnnaIs]

Brilliant! Absolutly brilliant!

[@ChadRosas]

He is The Best !!

[@Hakkai87]

"Just two tigers so far.....and a leopard made it as well!" LOL

[@kitskivich]

"Mr. Squirrel said so."

[@前橋みき]

Best in the business!

[@thecapeman]

Me too! Gonna be great!

[@PlayNiceFolks]

No one goes "uuummm" better than Eddie

[@sherimcdaniel3491]

Gee, if I'd known Britain's policemen got Eddie's comedy in 2008, I would have had a sex change, moved there and become a policeman! Brilliant!! "How can I be sure? Try it!"

[@GuitarBeast-xp8dp]

I love being a "Jeff" watching Eddie Izzard. I am Jeff Vader!

[@Dysii-x7c]

and then waited a fucking forever.. I just love that sentence :D

[@djdudekill]

this is a early version of Eddie Izzard Stripped, for anyone interested.

[@OOG_IMP]

This is like a speed gig. I've seen some videos where he was explaining that tie-grr part for like 7 minutes

[@ParkParks93]

He's such a visual comedian...I LOVE HIMM! I can't stand crap stand up comedians ie. Jimmy Carr who just fire out jokes one after the other when they are in no way related to each other =L

[@Pamathey]

So, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yes.

[@alysononoahu8702]

Sooo handsome...

[@PDeRop]

Men went hunting. Women gathered berries and plants. Which basically meant people ate A LOT of berries and plants and men bought a fish in the store and made up stories about catching it :) times haven't changed :)

[@VintageVera1]

heehee

[@nyakwarObat]

GBatT you now hunting money to go supermarket and buy shit you used to make on your own and order takeaway for your lazy bum can't even cook wife, never mind being able to identify a berry beyond the packaged in plastic at the supermarket. You got to be on the clowning mode with that times haven't changed statement

[@Yakoable]

Yes I believe he was joking, chill mate

[@MegaRchan]

Yeeah...T_T He looked really good in them.....he had style, stills does, but still....T_T LOVE YOU EDDIE!!!! :)

[@singleplayermoments]

A lot of charactors Eddie acts out are called Jeff. :P

[@josh2Sides2]

He secretly wanted to be called Jeff as a kid and not Eddie. Though his middle name is John

[@abena7590]

Briljant lovin it!

[@Primalxbeast]

Eddie saying she would be a hunter... Well considering the fact that early hominids hunted by running their prey to exhaustion, I think she would be good at it. She has a crazy habit of running a marathon a day for around a month at a time.

[@PureLouBurn]

LMAO I now love eddie :D

Just brillant ! A 10 on the LMAO Scale. Scientifically approuved.

[@IoEstasCedonta]

"Giraffe. If you see me running, try to keep up."

[@IAmThePumaMan]

According to Eddie the decision to dress like a man was influenced by the fact it was difficult to get acting jobs in the U.S. Kinda sad, but it's the truth. Being an "Executive Transvestite" would limit his options in mainstream Hollywood.

[@Jahkayhla]

All faiths pose a greater threat. Those that believe in something are more prone to be violent than those that believe in nothing.

[@WickerwomanBrickparachute]

Love The Izz.

[@mousers42]

Eddie Izzard for GOD!

[@AgentLane13]

"Genesislover" could very well refer to the band Genesis. Cool your jets.

[@KroMeCJar]

Yeah they are awesome

[@chicvivace]

i read an interview from when he was doing his "stripped" tour here in the us - roughly what i remember reading was: the reason he's dressing in 'boy' clothes lately is because he hates to be put in a 'box', and people had started associating him only with transvesticism....but either way, i agree with gazz84 - "eddie is eddie no matter what he wears!"

[@Uinb]

"Well that worked...." rofl. Yeh, weird seeing him dressed like that and having a beard.

[@glebber8709]

omg. loveeee eddie!!! anyone know where i could find all of secret policeman's ball for this yr?

[@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681]

Having read a lot about history, this really surprised me. They tell about the evolution of the stone spears and axes, but they dont tell the simple thing. How did humans hunt buffalo when they didnt have stone tools? Well they didnt. They didnt eat much meat. They might catch a rat, or a turtle maybe. A sheep would be already too big and powerful to kill. What would you do, wrestle it down and bite with your useless human teeth? A ram? Noooooooooo WAY! And then there is this one guy who is told how its impossible to hunt a woolly mammoth, and he picks up a rock, a long branch, and tears a handful of his own hair. "Hold my handful of pond water..." People coul get maybe a kilo of meat a month, and that was really trying. After stone tools it was, you see five tons of mammoth and go "heat up the barbie, honey, I will be right back."

[@pendlera2959]

You can totally kill a sheep or ram barehanded, especially working as a group. You can use persistence hunting and wait for it to collapse of exhaustion (there are still tribes that do this), like so: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o16unXagopeMh9E Alternatively, you can ambush it as a group, some distracting it in front while the rest grab its legs/knock it over, then strangle it. Also, think about the kinds of animals kids catch: lizards, snakes, frogs, crayfish, baby birds, etc. Not to mention insects and worms. Heck, I've caught a fish bare handed before and I am NOT an experienced hunter/fisher. I'm pretty sure humans were eating meat on a regular basis before the stone age, provided the definition of "meat" doesn't just refer to muscle tissue from mammals and birds the way it does in modern times.

[@lloroshastar6347]

They were just more creative, they did things like run circles around the animals until the animal got dizzy and would fall over, then they captured it with a net made from seaweed. They would also trick animals using mime, hypnotism and live reality TV.

[@richard6440]

@@lloroshastar6347 and live reality TV. roflmao :)

[@Biglix-lilbrush]

its the amnesty international sigh thats what the secret policemens ball is about

[@RottenRroses]

He killed!

[@jackkones73]

Most english speaking christian fundamentalists reside in the us, fair assumption. and I wasnt rude at all.

[@neovid13]

this guy, makes religion, SO MUCH EFFING BETTER TO LISTEN TO

[@DefiniteArticle12]

fuck yeah

[@MothaLuva]

If Jesus was Joshua, then the sons of God would be Ashua, Boshua, Coshua, Doshua…

[@dr.leftfield9566]

It's early stuff but" unrepeatable" is funny you must see it.

[@tomitstube]

lol, "it was a nightmare man, a fucking nightmare in there, fucking stripy bastards, they ate everyone man." apparently the squirrel was a 50's jazz playing beatnik.

[@ElizaMogha]

he looks fantastic in man clothes!! absolutely gorgeous!!

[@nyakwarObat]

Ellie Meli i know what you had in your mind when you wrote that 😉

[@deborahduthie4519]

Before the Stone Age, there was the Stick Age, before that....😆

[@daneb.mcfadhen9896]

The thing is, the laughter might not happen. He'll pontificate (perhaps on the spot) and we will be analyzing. And? ... oh that's brilliant!

[@kadajjWJM]

Yeah! That was hilarious!

[@spankyscfw]

"the many kids of god" is hilarious

[@ChristianBrinsxox]

It was a quote

[@tomitstube]

epic of gligamesh came before noah. but do we ever say that? that the noah story was lifted from a sumarian legend?

[@roganzar]

tomitstube Gilgamesh and all those Sumerian tales are amazing.

[@StarboyXL9]

Of course Noah put 2 of every animal on the boat... what else do you think happened to Unicorns?

[@richard6440]

Of course Noah was real , just like the unicorns :)

[@pinkbubblesnake]

1:We look fantastic 2:two emotions, fear because it is a TIGER!! and suprise ...because it is a TIGER !! and there are no tigers in africa 3:F*CKING NIGHTMARE MAN

[@icegirld]

"..it was a fucking nightmare man...write that down in the bible " XD the man is a genius

[@mandeville7474]

Yes

[@josh2Sides2]

Giant Squid diary; Day One... Seem to be running out of... Ink

[@DontLookNowItsRob]

I'm a straight dude, but I still noticed that he looks handsome when not in drag (Not that he is unattractive in drag.)

[@ruby12325]

if a giraffe saw a tiger it would experience two emotions, fear because it is a TIGER! and suprise ...because it is a TIGER !! and there are no tigers in africa" absolutley hilarious

[@neos1234125]

He is very attractive with the facial hair

[@deborahduthie4519]

Two sheep in the Bible refers to two Ram sheep and their six Ewes per Ram. That’s how sheep were counted.

[@Ida667]

I didnt recognize him at first xD

[@thefinewino]

Sometimes he's in boy mode, other times he's in girl mode. Apparently he's in girl mode less these days, which I think he said was a strategy for being taken seriously by western media (because he's breaking into it). But he still does girl mode, so he says.

[@Zephyrdia]

The squirrel is David Spade?

[@ruivog]

Nr 1.

[@MADAMEOCTA07]

fckin nightmare man ... fuckin nightmare! haha

[@skt8r24]

holy crap hes dressing normal now

[@madeiramagic]

Hold me over a pond...lol