Cake or Death?

If you saw that headline and cracked up, read no further. You already know all I am about to say. That's right...it's an Eddie Izzard post. He is one of the best undisovered English transvestite comics out there. Screw it, I'll say it: THE BEST undiscovered English transvestite comic. If you have not seen him before, start with "Dressed to Kill." It's brilliant humor, much of it dealing with politics and world history, which is just a little too smart for us Americans. And his fantastic accent makes it even better. Everything sounds more intelligent with a British accent. (He's also a very good actor - played the bad guy in Avengers and apparently is in Ocean's Twelve, though I haven't see that yet. And to go back to my earlier "undiscovered" reference...I suppose, since he's enormously sucessful, he's not technically "undiscovered," but I don't think enough people know about him.)

Stop what you are doing right now and go find an Eddie Izzard DVD (or tape, for you technophobes out there). You won't regret it. And if you do, and you feel that the hour you just spent watching the tape was wasted...well, I don't care. You've probably done worse things.

P.S. I was going to include my favorite lines from "Dressed to Kill," but the list just kept on growing and growing. You can check some out here.

Okay, actually, I have to include just one:

"The National Rifle Association says that, 'Guns don't kill people, uh, people do.' But I think, I think the gun helps. You know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, 'Bang!' That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that. "

Fine, one more, and that's it, I promise:

"We stole countries! That's how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Just sail halfway around the world, stick a flag in. 'I claim India for Britain.' And they're going, 'You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us.' 'Do you have a flag?' 'We don't need a bloody flag, this is our country, you bastard!' 'No flag, no country! You can't have one. That's the rules... that... I've just made up! And I'm backing it up with this gun... that was lent from the National Rifle Association.' "