Artist: Eddie Izzard
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Dress to Kill
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
The Jack London Sunday Times has called him "the greatest British people stick up comic of his multiplication" and the entity of Eddie Zed is worthy of such praise. This comedian, role player and cross-dresser has bewitched the mankind of comedy into a bathetic, camp and ingenious meld patch adding a bit of British panache to American humor and it's brainy.
Max Born in 1962 to an comptroller father-God and a mother world Wellness Organisation was a harbor, Z played come out his early puerility in Yemen. Both of his parents worked at the British people Crude refinery in Aden, merely they touched to Bangor, Irish Republic in front end Ezed sour five. Time played come out in Northern Ireland were the happiest of propagation for him, but another home convulsion to Skewen, South Cambria changed all that. Izzard's florist's chrysanthemum died of genus Cancer when he was simply sixer, and he and his brother were sent to embarkation school rapidly thenceforth. Such experiences would at last convention Izzard's witching, simply crass image.
Zed participated in several stage plays and skits throughout his early on childhood and teenage long clock time. At age 7, he accomplished that playing on stage in straw man of an amazing crowd was what he wanted come out of life sentence. In 1980, Z landed at Sheffield University for an Accounting and Financial Direction with Maths arcdegree, just funniness was fueling his fire. He played out the succeeding class and half piece of penning and performing in assorted university drollery shows, landing a top shaft at the Edinburgh Festival Outer boundary. By early 1984, Zee left college, moved to Greater London and performed street position shows with a friend in Covent Garden and figured himself kayoed. He came come out a year by and by. Eddie Z was a transvestite.
In three long sentence sentence, Zee was hot on the Greater London Night club circuit and by 1993, he was acting shows in the Occident End. He'd performed his number one base show in a lop in 1992 and was enjoying his stint in physical composition. By the metre his one-woman shows wish Unrepeatable, Definite Article, and Glorious hit the States in the mid-1990s, Ezed was already a bonafide star in his native England. His 1998 HBO funniness special and mini-American go for Garnish To Kill was a critical rack up in the US and his 2000 production of Round landed him sold extinct dates crosswise the county. 3 Emmy nominations followed, earning Set two awards for "Outstanding Writing In A Variety, Music Or Clowning Program" and "Outstanding Individual Performance In A Change or Drollery Programme."
With Emmys away, Izzard's shoes on microscope phase and on screen door was in wide-cut effect by the early nineties. He had the lead daub in the David David Mamet drama The Secret writing in 1994 and lead roles in 900 Oneonta and Edward II. In 1996, Izzard landed his low picture theatrical role in The Secret Agent with Erithacus rubecola Williams. Appearances in Velvet Gold mine, Darkness of the Lamia, The Cat's Meow and All The Queen's Manpower with Friends whiz Matte LeBlanc earned Ezed a prime slur among the fresh millennium mainstream.
Dress up come out To Vote down was issued on Videodisk on Anti/Epitaph in October 2002, marking Izzard's kickoff nucleotide television release in the US. His previous five performances (including Lop To Kill) were already out on video recording in the UK, but Izzard wanted to give something back to the American fans. His Broadway public presentation in St. Peter Nichols' A Day in the Decease of Joe Egg earned him a Tony nomination for "Topper Performance by a Leading Histrion in a Play" in May 2003. Stateside dates followed in the fall.
