The Newest, Yorkiest Night ever

What, Amy is updating again already? Can this be true? Yes, astonished internet reader, it IS true! Tell your friends. 

So what's prompting my break with lazy tradition? Oh, nothing much... only CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS! The one thing that everyone I talk to from back home always asks is "have you seen any famous people?" Normally my response is "Yeah, I've seen this (geeky theatre reference) and that (geeky theatre reference). Oh, and (geeky theatre reference) was starring in that one show, how cool is that?!" Normal people's response to my response is usually "Oh... that's cool." 

But not today, my friends. So, back up to Monday night. I'm just hanging out with Sam doing nothing special when my old pal Jenny Patell (btw, I owe you so huge, Jenny) drops a mysterious email in my lap. It is a link to a mysterious website, and nothing else. Not even a hello. So, I click the link, and what do I find? For no discernible reason, the 45 Bleecker Street theatre is hosting a 25 dollar show by.... drumroll.... EDDIE IZZARD!

We're going to take a quick break from my scintillating tale because I realized that many of my readers are of the family and, um, kinda old variety. Sorry y'all. So they may not know the glory of Izzard. Basically Eddie is is a british comedic icon. He's huge. He's a transvestite. It's hard to explain. I have friends (Abby and Leslie, don't deny it) who can have entire conversations in Izzardisms. Let me find an appropriate video clip, hang on.... 

ok, flash back to real time where I just spent a half hour laughing my head off at Eddie Izzard clips. Woops. So I just picked a little one that I really like. Plus it's a little more PG-13 than his other stuff:

So yeah, it was huge that he was playing in New York at all, let alone at a tiny little Greenwich theatre, for such a tiny price. Later we came to find out that this idea was kind of a lark between Izzard and another comedian, Mike Birbiglia, who has a show at that theatre every week. Izzard came to see the show and do a chat with Birbiglia afterwards, and they wondered what would happen if he were to do a show at 10 at night on a wednesday and advertise it solely via Twitter (which must have been how Jenny found it). The answer is massive, massive crowds. But we already had our tickets reserved, heh heh heh!

And who would be hanging out in the crowd just like any other normal type person? Kevin Spacey, boo ya! It was quite funny, Sam and I are standing there and he whispers to me "man, that guy up there is a real kevin spacey doppelganger." to which I reply "it can't be kevin spacey, he has too much hair!" And of course, it really was Kevin Spacey. Doh. He eventually worked his way up right by us at the main doors, and stood right in front of me. I touched his jacket.... on accident. I smelled his cologne (very old spicey. in fact, it probably was just old spice). Then he uses the awesome power of celebrity to get in to the ticket desk ahead of us, which prompted the british guy behind me to say "hey, where does that wanker think he's going?!" to which I replied "Um, it's Kevin Spacey." to which HE replied "Oh bloody hell! woops." And everyone laughed and we all became fast friends. 

And so the show begins. Oh. my. lord. I have never seen anything so monstrously entertaining, so gloriously hilarious, so... so... so... FREAKIN' AWESOME in my entire life. The best moment of the show was Izzard was riffing on people Twittering and getting up to go to the bathroom during his shows, when Kevin Spacey just jumps up from his seat, and walks onstage past Izzard backstage. The crowd goes wild, of course. Then he comes back onstage with his I-phone and stands there and twitters "On stage with Eddie the caveman Izzard" and then goes to sit back down again. I could go on and on and on about every funny moment, but I won't because eventually you'll be able to buy it on DVD or see it in a great big arena with everyone else, and I want you all to be surprised. And I'm greedy. 

So the show ends, and to kind of pump up his show Mike Birbiglia comes onstage to do a little bit of an interview with Izzard. So he's asking a question and says "... so yeah, the show's great, and all of a sudden that guy from K-Pax is running onstage (big laugh) naw, it's ok man, everybody makes bad movies (crowd goes "ooooooooooh")." Izzard: "Any response, Kevin?" (big laugh).  Spacey, from the crowd "Screw You, man!" (HUGE laugh). 

And so a glorious evening came to an end. As we were filing out, all the celebrity types went to hang out onstage, including Jane Kracinski of 30 Rock who had apparently been in the audience as well. And Eddie Izzard pours them all some wine into little dixie cups. And I said to myself, someday, Amy. Someday. 

Ok, I'm now going to be late to my already half day of work, I hope you can all appreciate this. The sacrifices I make!

Love to all