Eddie Izzard Stripped DVD

One of Britian’s favourite comedians Eddie Izzard has just released a new live DVD from his recent UK tour.  Stripped was recorded in London at the Lyric Theatre.

The Stripped tour broke box office records, selling out a five-week residency in London’s West End in less than 48 hours with tickets alledgedly exchanging hands for thousands of pounds.

The UK tour came hot on the heels of an American sell-out tour, which played across 34 US cities – including three packed-out nights at New York’s legendary Radio City Music Hall.

Stripped Live sees Eddie Izzard in his free flow stand-up mode, appearing to perform without a precise script as he ad-lib’s his way through the history of the world and mankind with reference points from Wikipedia.

The Stripped tour continues throughout the UK and Europe so if you haven’t got tickets then this DVD is the next best thing.

Eddie Izzard has been hailed as one of the foremost stand-ups of his generation. He takes ideas and situations and extrapolates them into bizarre, absurd and surreal comic narratives. Since his first stage appearance on London’s West End in 1993 there have been a succession of sell-outs and critically acclaimed international tours. Eddie’s musings have earned him countless awards including two Emmy’s.

Eddie recently took a few weeks off and ran 1200 miles around the UK for Sport Relief – that’s a staggering 43 marathons in 51 days!

Eddie Izzard Stripped DVD was released on Monday 23rd November.

This year’s Red Nose Day is on Friday 13th March 2009 and Comic Relief are asking people to Do Something Funny for Money!

Now Music (the company behind the Now That’s What I Call Music series) and Comic Relief are teaming up for the first time ever for this great cause that each year brings the best of british comedy together for one day of fundraising.

Now That’s What I Call Comedy is a great DVD that brings you the best and most comprehensive collection of comedy sketches from recent years.

The side-splitting Now That’s What I Call Comedy DVD is on sale from 2nd March.

Now That’s What I Call Comedy includes clips and sketches from The Mighty Boosh, Little Britain USA, Gavin & Stacey, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Russell Brand’s Ponderland, Amy Winehouse’s infamous Never Mind The Buzzcocks appearance, and Sacha Baron Cohen aka Ali G as Bruno the Austrian fashion reporter.

It also includes clips of live stand-up routines of the best of British comedy from the likes of Bill Bailey, Alan Carr, Lenny Henry, Sean Lock, Jo Brand, Lee Evans, and Jimmy Carr that are guaranteed to have you rolling on the floor with laughter!

Comic Relief itself is at the heart of the DVD and some classic Comic Relief Specials such as The Vicar Of Dibley featuring Sting, Mr Bean’s wedding, and the hilariously memorable Ricky Gervais in Kenya for Comic Relief 2007 are all included.

Comic Relief spends all the money raised giving extremely poor and disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa a helping hand to turn their lives around. Do your bit this Red Nose Day by grabbing a copy of NOW That’s What I Call Comedy!

Now That’s What I Call Comedy DVD

1. CATHERINE TATE – Lauren & Tony Blair (Comic Relief 2007)
2. GAVIN & STACEY – Bowling
3. PETER KAY’S – Britain’s Got An Extra Pop Factor…And Then
Some – Man I Feel Like a Woman
4. MICHAEL McINTYRE – LIVE & LAUGHING – Accents
5. LITTLE BRITAIN USA – Lou & Andy go to Church
6. FRANK SKINNER – STAND-UP – Osama Song
7. THAT MITCHELL & WEBB LOOK – Who Let The Dogs Out?
8. SEAN LOCK – LIVE – The Environment
9. HARRY HILL’S TV BURP – Eastenders (Comic Relief 2007)
10. RUSSELL HOWARD LIVE – Nans & Newspapers
11. QI – The Acropolis
12. RICKY GERVAIS & FRIENDS – Ricky in Kenya (Comic Relief 2007)
13. ALAN CARR – TOOTH FAIRY LIVE – Football
14. THE PETER SERAFINOWICZ SHOW – Darth Vader in Love
15. BILL BAILEY – TINSELWORM – Fur
16. WE CAN BE HEROES: FINDING THE AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR
Ja’mie King
17. LEE EVANS – BIG – LIVE AT THE 02 Self-Service Checkouts
18. MOCK THE WEEK – Commercials That Never Made it To Air
19. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS – Part-Time Model
20. RUSSELL BRAND’S PONDERLAND – Budgie
21. LENNY HENRY – LIVE AT THE APOLLO – Growing Up in Dudley
22. THE THICK OF IT – Shadow Minister Receives a Makeover
23. STAR STORIES – TAKE THAT – Duet
24. LEE MACK LIVE – Glasses
25. THE IT CROWD – Friendface
26. JO BRAND – LIVE AT THE APOLLO – Teenagers
27. THE ARMSTRONG & MILLER SHOW – Predictive Text
28. NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS – Amy & Penny
29. THE MIGHTY BOOSH – The Power of the Crimp
30. JACK DEE – LIVE AGAIN – Bumble Bee
31. MR BEAN – Mr Bean’s Wedding (Comic Relief 2007)
32. JIMMY CARR IN CONCERT – A Few Quick Ones
33. HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU – Brian Blessed
34. SACHA BARON COHEN – BRUNO – Daytona Beach
35. DARA O’BRIAIN – TALKS FUNNY – Magician
36. HARRY & PAUL Dragon’s Den – Augcember
37. THE VICAR OF DIBLEY – Wife Swap (Comic Relief 2007)

BONUS MATERIAL – Teaser for Comic Relief Single 2009

Mike Reid - The Guvnor's Last Stand - Live

Mike Reid – The Guvnor’s Last Stand – Live – DVD

Mike Reid is best known to many as Frank Butcher in the BBC tv soap, Eastenders. But older readers may remember Reid presenting the children’s tv show Runaround or for the one-hit wonder UK Top 10 single in 1975 – Ugly Duckling.

But before he reinvented himself as Pat Butcher’s husband, he was best known as a successful stand-up comedian in the 1970s.  He appeared in the original 1970’s tv show, The Comedians along with the likes of Frank Carson and Bernard Manning.

The Guvnor’s Last Stand showcases Mike Reid’s last stand-up shows in November 2006. For the first-time on DVD this release is a compilation of the best of two live shows + bonus material from a show in Chatham in Kent – all from November 2006.

The DVD is a good testament of the kind of adult stand-up comedy that Mike Reid should be remembered for.  His cockney accent and gravel-voiced belly-laugh jokes about his ugly wife, getting drunk and reflections on life had me laughing out loud.

These live recordings include his very last stand up performance before his untimely death in July 2007 while on holiday in Marbella of a suspected heart attack.

Mike Reid – The Guvnor’s Last Stand – Live shows a master comedian on stage at the Cliff Pavillion in Southend in 2006 and the last ever recorded footage at Bury Cottage, Stanstead in November 2006.

Mike Reid – The Guvnor’s Last Stand – Live is out now.

Released by Anchor Bay, approx. 68 minutes long.