To die for

I'm not sure why Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill was in our queue. I've barely heard of him. Now that I've seen this film of his stand-up act, I know:

• He wears makeup and women's clothes (though he fancies girls)
• He's British
• He can't do imitations, except James Mason
• He's hilarious

His chief weapon is surprise. He starts out relatively sane, lets his story go way, way out into the beyond, and long after you have lost any hope of figuring it out, comes back to his point. When the audience laughs at one of these jokes, he congratulates them: "Well remembered."

Maybe not life-changing, but certainly sidesplitting - not to mention cross-dressing. I'm glad I rented it.