Eddie Izzard Reviews

Cheryl from Ft Worth, tx

SEEN SO MUCH BETTER

I love Eddie, seen him 6 times live, but this didn't do it for me. I managed to chuckle a few times. Didn't stay till it ended. Still a fan, but I might be done attending his live performances. Goes to show, he can't please everyone all the time. Upper seats in the house at Majestic.....prepare to sweat. Otherwise great venue.

SusanMJ from Los Angeles, California

SADLY DISAPPOINTED

Been an Eddie Izzard fan for years. Wunderbar does not live up to previous tours. It simply was not funny. Didn't flow. He seemed distracted, while unsuccessfully trying to tie things together. Numerous people were commenting they couldn't understand him frequently. To garbled, so we lost some of the content

C.Jones from Costa Mesa, California

EDDIE IZZARD, 2/21/18 COSTA MESA CA

I had such high hopes sitting in my very expensive 5th row center seats, and being a fan for years - quoting cake or death ad naseum to whoever would listen... So I’m heartbroken to say the Believe Me show on 2/21/18 at the Segerstrom Center, Costa Mesa CA, was the worst comedy performance I have eleven seen. Eddie Izzard was late, dresses like an Irvine soccer mom, and adlibbed the whole show, mostly at an incoherent mumbled. The routine was not funny, structured without comedic thought, and peppered with various thoughts on sexuality, politics, spiritual beliefs, and philanthropy that had little detail, continuity or depth. If he thought he could winging, or endless family pics and an interactive map was funny - he is dead wrong. This was the worst performance by a professional entertainer I have ever seen, and it pains me deeply to say that.

Tom Bass from Nashville, Tennessee

DEFLATED

I’m a huge fan but tonight I felt insulted and force fed sub-par insight on a shallow perspective pawned off as comedy. The brilliance has been left aside . No hall of fame plays tonight. Ryman Auditorium, VE DAY 2019.

Arthur from New York, New York

HIS RETIREMENT FROM COMEDY CAME EARLY

It had been 20 years since I had last seen Eddie Izzard live. Though I expected more this time around it felt like less. I chuckled twice in the entire duration of this show - Eddie seemed almost bored to have to be in New York. While one’s background can make for humor Izzard’s life stories didn’t seem particularly unique. His whole dialogue seemed to revolve around random occurrences that had no lesson other than that they happened to Eddie. It was charming to hear his multilingual dialogue but shouldn’t it have been for a bigger purpose than to try and impress the audience? There seemed no other reason to ramble on about earlier shows on his tour. Shouldn’t he just have focused on those who were paying to watch him on the night? Apparently, not. A political career in Britain’s Labour Party beckons, Eddie told us in what was the most interesting part of his show. Yes, Brexit is a shambles but Eddie seems to have some passion for politics. It came through. But nothing else did. Poor.

John Inglis from San Diego, California

HOW DO YOU RATE WHAT YOU CAN’T HEAR?

Honestly, I sat in a surreal world for the first half of this show. I felt really strangely awkward. I’m thinking “ am I going deaf?”. “Do I no longer understand people from where I come from?” “Has he forgotten that he should be talking to the back row not the front?” “Was there a last minute problem with the sound system that is causing him to use a hand held microphone?” “Why are some people laughing when I didn’t understand what was said?” I felt so bad for my wife who bought these tickets for us and didn’t seem to be enjoying this either. I decided to grin and bear it for her. At the intermission, she says “can you understand him?” I said, “sorry no.” She says I can’t hear 85% of what’s being said and I think the volume is probably fine but he mumbles a lot and doesn’t speak directly into the microphone.” And there you have it. As we left at the intermission to go home, we ride up the elevator with some people to the car. Topic of conversation? His constituents won’t be heard!

from San Francisco, California

WUNDER WHY?

I have never seen anyone funnier or with better material than Eddie Izzard in Dress to Kill. Yet, I have never seen him come near that in his subsequent performances. I literally walked out of Wunderbar after 10 min of his idiosyncrasies, that are hilarious in context and not when there is no real material. He did say he did the show mostly for himself. I guess it is true, but thousands of people came out, spent money, drove, parked and walked through the crappiest neighborhood in the City to see him and he did not deliver. He just wasn't funny. What a shame.

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