Deathstar Canteen

[Keef]

Brillaint. And I ain't Keef, I've hijaked his account. I am FEAR. FEAR me. I am drunk

[Annasfield]

Ha ha. Thought Keef was having sleepless nights due to his new arrival.

[RosieH]

Beautiful

[Keef]

Just seen this, didn't realise Mr n'boozing had started a thread, I must have been equally drunk. CPT wifi rocks ;-)

[zephyr]

Happy Starwars Day. May the fourth be with you!

[charliecharlie]

absolutely bloody brilliant... Eddie Izzard, I just love love love you...

100000 out of 10

http://images1.makefive.com/images/200820/bc5c8d3517a7bc84.jpg

person who is not Keef... welcome to our planet

[????]

I saw Eddie Izzard upstairs at the EDT.....yonks ago

[charliecharlie]

wow, in a small venue Quids... bet he was brilliant, like a diamond in the rough, or should that be like a rough diamond?

ps. who is the keef interloper?

[Keef]

So did I quids!!! It was approx 1995, I was only about 17. They used to get big acts there doing warm up shows. In fact ED Comedy (as it was then) still does up at the hob. Izzard though is probably far too big a star these days!

Still like him, but think his comedy peak was "Dress to kill", and that was over 10 years ago now!

Cake or death?

[Brendan]

charliecharlie Wrote:

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> ps. who is the keef interloper?

He's a young fellow who normally posts on here as one Fear 'n Boozin'.

[charliecharlie]

http://www.double8tickets.com/search.php

wann'a go? long way ahead I know and

02 = big venue, but he was so great last time... I'd risk it

xxcc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAOLOGGftTY&feature=related

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[Keef]

Saw him at Wembley arena a few years back, wasn't bad. Don't think you'll ever see him in a small venue anymore, unless it's unannounced and you get lucky.

[jumpinjackflash]

nothing to say on this thread..but just wanted to have my usernameas last poster on the first six consecutive threads!!

sorry

[giggirl]

Keef Wrote:

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>.....Izzard though is

> probably far too big a star these days!

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Actually Keeeff, you couldn't be more wrong. Eddie does tiny warm-up gigs all the time. He does them quietly though so unless you know they're happening you'll never hear anything about them because warm-ups don't get reviewed. Last week he played the Pleasance in Islington, which is really small, and he played Liverpool Uni, also last week. ?10 a ticket.

http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/node/613

His warm-up venue for the last tour was mostly the Soho Theatre but last year he did a couple of nights at the Arts Theatre near Leicester Square. These are both tiny venues and he only charges ?10 a ticket.

The problem is that the gigs sell out so very fast that I don't even get the chance to post on the forum. I'm a huge Eddie fan and always go to warm-ups whenever possible. I'll make a real effort to post something here about the next one but it is difficult and I don't want to piss forumites off by posting about something that's already sold out.

Ricky Gervais is also doing warm-ups at the moment - he's using the Bloomsbury Theatre, the Shaw (I think) and also some gaff in Finchley. I've been to a couple but I've never found Ricky's work in progress that funny to be honest.

Anyway, death or cake right back at you.

[charliecharlie]

[quote name=Ricky Gervais is also doing warm-ups at the moment - he's using the Bloomsbury Theatre' date=' the Shaw (I think) and also some gaff in Finchley. I've been to a couple but I've never found Ricky's work in progress that funny to be honest.

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so right, giggirl, Izzard is in totally a different league,

Gervais... to much work makes a dull boy, still very Office-y, bit of a one trick pony IMO

how to you get to find out about the warm up shows, are you in the business?

any tips and or PM's welcome

xxcc

[giggirl]

Sorry Charlie but Eddie's warm ups sell out so fast he doesn't even post info on his own website. Next time he does something I'll try to buy extra seats if I can and offer them for sale on the forum. They are really brilliant and he's so much more relaxed than he is when doing a "proper" show. I guess he thinks that for ?10 everyone is happy. It is actually quite funny (in a perverse way) when he does something that falls flat.

I expect to see him do a handful of warm-ups in the regions but come late summer I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't set up shop somewhere like Soho or the Arts for anything up to two weeks to finalise the material for the tour. Soho is also used by, amongst others, Russell Brand and Omid Djalili for warm ups. Russell Howard is currently in "warm-up residency" at the Soho; Monday nights ?10. All good fun.

http://www.sohotheatre.com/p16.html

[Moos]

I would LOVE to see him live! He's a comedy god.

Er - cake, please.

[Huggers]

Eddie Izzard has performed secretly at Downstairs at the Kings Head, Crouch End in the last few months.

[Jah Lush]

???? Wrote:

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> I saw Eddie Izzard upstairs at the EDT.....yonks

> ago

Yeah! Me too.

[Keef]

Er - cake, please.

VERY WELL!!!!! Give her cake!

Going to run out of cake at this rate, we only had 3 pieces and we didn't expect such a rush!

[TillieTrotter]

Class(tu)

[giggirl]

If anyone is interested in seeing Ricky Gervais do a warm up, I think he's got one coming up in Finchley later this month - 26th I think. Here's a link to the venue - phone them up and see if they can confirm when the tickets go on sale. Bear in mind that the staff may not know about it yet but I think it will happen. Tickets will fly out the door of course so phone asap if you're interested.

http://www.artsdepot.co.uk/search.php?date=2009-5-26&day=26&month=5&year=2009

These gigs are now confirmed and on sale at 9am here

http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e|artist=RICKY+GERVAIS+-+WORK+IN+PROGRESS&n|artist=null&resultsperpage=20&filler3=id1beatthetouts