Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-11-23
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 104 minutes

Synopsis
Comedian Eddie Izzard performs his surreal show STRIPPED.

Customer Reviews

Watched the Show Live. It was AWESOME, & so FUNNY
I watched this show Live in Nottingham and Sheffield (although this was filmed at the London show) With a few brilliant differences here and there (Eddie murders flies will be the Sheffield Headline LOL) the core material was the same. And it was truly awesome. I haven't laughed so hard since he released his Sexie DVD, and this show was even better, miles better. Eddie proves once again that he is a true king of comedy. He covered the 4.5billion year history of the world, in such a way that history became exciting and funny. Its hard to pick out any one thing from his show, from Cows in cars, to the none existant Giraffe alarm call. Its all surreal comedy at a level that surpasses genius.

Get this DVD you'll watch it over and over and over and just end up laughing even harder every time. If you only buy one comedy DVD in your life, make sure its this one. Eddie Izzard is truly totally amazing

Confused
Like many of the other reviewers here I too had seen in London Eddie perform live around the time this was filmed. I had seen (as remarkable as it will sound) very little of his work prior to the live event. I was hugely and pleasantly surprised at how wonderful his flavor of stand up is. On the night I spent about two hours laughing my self silly, to say the show was a hit for me would be a huge understatement.

We decided to purchase this DVD as for the next year we were quoting and still laughing at bits of the show and expected to relive all the bits we might have forgotten.... Then we played the DVD, so much was missing from what we saw, not just entire gags but entire sections. We laughed of course when we were watching it (not as much as we did the first time but that's comedy eh?) but when it ended we sat there and spent ten minutes saying how about the bit when? or what happened to?

So all of this is not relevant if you are going to buy this having not seen the live show but if you have you might be wondering when some of the very funny stuff went. I have watched since then most of Izzard's earlier stand up and while this is very funny its not as good (in the DVD form) as say Dressed to Kill. I do wonder if I had not seen it live if I might have ended up enjoying this more?

So not a full review from me but a slight warning for those that were lucky enough to see this live late last year in the small venue in the West End or on tour that it might not be quite what you were expecting.

Funny at times, but largely underwhelming.
I saw the live show of this, and it was really funny and enjoyable. I was expecting more or less the same on the DVD. Whilst at times, it is genuinely funny, I can honestly say that there were probably only about 5 or 6 times when I found myself laughing out loud. The rest of the time, I only really smiled a bit. The audience seems to have been the same, in that there are more polite laughs and chuckles, than real roaring laughter. I think Eddie is brilliant, but sadly he seems to have tailed off down the years. As the show progresses on the DVD, I find myself almost reaching for the fast-forward button, which I'd not normally expect with a stand-up show. With Stripped, Eddie has a habit of resurrecting jokes from earlier in the act, that, in all honesty, weren't really that funny in the first place. Also, he really only has limited himself to covering ancient history and animals, and it would be nice to see some current stuff in the mix aswell. At times, he sometimes drags out a joke long after it's shelf-life has expired. That said, I still think the bloke's great!