death, please

[rosaw]

Last night Eddie Izzard performed at the Wiltern and I was there! It was cool -- the Wiltern is a great venue. And Eddie was pretty damned funny, as usual. But he didn't love this audience. Which was really tragic because that was the audience I happened to be in. There was much "ow!" yelling from a section in the front -- very loud and distracting when he was talking. And he hated it. He tried to joke people in to stopping ("ow sounds like you're getting bitten by tigers") and then tried more threatening jokes about it ("ow. Those tigers are making me think I need an assault rifle") before he finally just seemed put out by how rude the audience was. I was pretty sad and very embarrassed about the whole thing, though honestly I didn't make a single inappropriate sound (I feel like I should send him a fan apology letter "It wasn't me, I swear, please come back to LA"). "Ow" is not in my audience noise vocabulary, I'm much more of a "whoo" girl and after he asked people to knock it off, I only clapped at appropriate points. Which is not to say that it wasn't fun, but the audience's bad manners did put a bit of a cramp in the evening for him and, since this really is about me, for me, too. Maybe especially for me, since he will be funny other places, other places with more polite audiences.

It was nice to have Dressed to Kill to watch today. I hope there will be a dvd of Sexie, because parts of it were laugh-until-you-can't-breathe funny. He didn't have much to say about Shrub (sadly) or the Fab 5 has sherrold reported here. However, even without presidential jokes he was fabulous, darilings, just fabulous.

I'd see him again, though maybe not in LA.