Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story
2009 · 102 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 568 VOTES · DIR. Sarah Townsend
Overview
The story of one person's triumph over adversity: cameras followed the comedian on a very stressful comeback tour and caught the story behind some of her best loved material en route. Prior to her Sexie tour in 2003 and under extreme pressure to write, she delved into her own life for inspiration. So began an accidental voyage into her past that paralleled her world tour and culminated in a moment of revelation about the source of her relentless drive. Film contains exclusive never-before-seen footage including the famous 'wolves' material, Izzard's first student sketches and unicycle-riding as a street performer in Covent Garden. Hilarious and moving by turns, an inspiring tale of how tragedy can be turned to laughter.
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00:00:04 Eddie Izzard still letting down his fans, flogging old gags.
00:03:35 APPLAUSE
00:08:09 in the city of Aden.
00:12:53 On the day it happened, Dad came and took us home.
00:18:13 We were just going na na na na.
00:22:41 I had to chat up girls and I'd only tagged them before.
00:26:34 Perhaps it would be wise to go to our London studios.
00:30:39 and postering and designing things
00:34:13 They did leave a sentence that said
00:39:02 I could feel it. But as a double act, you're sitting
00:43:37 When I was a kid, I would spell phonetically
00:46:39 which were an unpaid five minutes. You would phone up and ask for one
00:50:12 And I thought, that's it. That's the thing I'm trying to get.
00:54:00 "I'll stay away from here until I'm good enough to blow the roof off."
00:57:41 and make up scenarios about people who were wandering around and poke
01:01:28 People thought I wasn't doing it out of principle, but I was
01:05:58 eyeshadow up to his eyebrows and a huge jumper with a belt, a skirt and really high patent shoes.
01:10:56 Cannot access printer.
01:14:52 "500 million of us."
01:19:40 I don't know why he didn't do it in English.
01:24:11 Oh, Bri!
01:28:11 And it just took a long time to get round to doing another show.
01:34:17 "By now you will know the result of the operation I had to find out what was wrong.
350:00:00 across the world.