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No one but madcap stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard can spin comic gold out of papal history, monkeys with guns, Jesus preaching to the dinosaurs, and cafeteria food on the Death Star. Circle, taken from... read more read more... his stand-up tour in 2000, doesn't have the astonishingly seamless free-associative flow of Glorious or Dress to Kill, his previous specials--which is to say, he's only intermittently brilliant, instead of supernaturally nonstop brilliant. We'll take what we can get, because Izzard can slip in surprisingly stinging commentary about international politics and religion, yet his impish smile suggests that he's only pointing out the obvious. He tosses out an idea and then plays with it like a cat plays with a mouse, flipping it around, teasing it out, pouncing, and then letting it go, only to sneak back up on it just when you'd forgetten it was there. Cheeky, subversive, and very, very funny. --Bret Fetzer

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Unrated, 2 hr. 20 min.

Directed by: Anastasia Pappas

Release Date: January 1, 2000

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DVD Release Date: September 23, 2003

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  • February 19, 2008
    Really funny and literate comedy. This might come off as pretentious if Izzard wasn't in drag. The Death Star bit was the best part for me not to mention the tiny references that tended to fall to the wayside. There were definitely some parts for which I was waiting to see the en... read mored, but Izzard's jabs at American culture made up for them.
  • November 20, 2007
    See: my review for Dress to Kill.
  • January 6, 2007
    Not quite on the same level as his earlier stuff, but still plenty of surrealist humour to enjoy.
  • September 26, 2006
    This is byfar my least favorite of Izzard's standup pieces I've seen so far.
  • November 3, 2007
    disappointing, because I saw the show a different night, and if that were released, it would be five stars easy.
  • July 14, 2006
    My expectations for this were high, and it didn't quite meet the standards of his earlier stuff. Still damn funny, though.

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