Eddie Izzard "Sexy Tunes" Sketch From "Definite Article"

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  • Опубликовано: 31 дек 2024

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  • @jackmill99
    @jackmill99 11 лет назад +168

    The legend of Mrs Badcrumble.

  • @kasudano9969
    @kasudano9969 4 года назад +72

    An amazing comedian
    A fantastic actor
    The 140 people who disliked this played tuba

  • @amberclingan8285
    @amberclingan8285 7 лет назад +177

    "Alright, I'll learn the violin but you won't like it! I will make a bad noise!!"- never gets too old. I still laugh my head off!!!

    • @glamourchick21
      @glamourchick21 5 лет назад +1

      I played the violin in middle school. My younger cousin took it up not long after. But she actually stuck with it. I have always been a much better singer than I was with any instrument not attached to my body.

    • @dianewinters8628
      @dianewinters8628 Год назад +1

      I gave up flute and joined choir when it came around too.

  • @Karolina-jo8yd
    @Karolina-jo8yd 3 года назад +13

    Eddie looks fucking stunning here

  • @wildlark
    @wildlark 8 лет назад +285

    "The school band will now murder Oh Come All Ye Faithful" I lost it :D

  • @fergieson32
    @fergieson32 5 лет назад +142

    "I have to watch telly and drive cars now, it's the pressure of being an adult"
    Dead 💀😂

  • @AtlasBlizzard
    @AtlasBlizzard 9 лет назад +157

    "Piano, piano!"
    "It's not a fucking piano! It's a clarin-art! You weird-talking person."
    Never gets old.

  • @rossradtke
    @rossradtke 7 лет назад +90

    conductor: ... Go!
    students: 🎼📯🎶🎷🎻🎵🎺🐹🔺️🥁🎶
    no conducting, just "go"
    funniest part, hands down.

    • @kimifur
      @kimifur 5 лет назад +5

      I LOVE how you got the hamster cheeks in!

    • @FireWalkWithMe91
      @FireWalkWithMe91 2 года назад +1

      I love this entire bit, but the "...GO!!" makes me absolutely lose it every time

  • @UncleHappy5
    @UncleHappy5 6 лет назад +56

    "Yeeayeeeeaahyeeeyeeeeeaaah fahkin' ell." --Violin

  • @gpgara
    @gpgara 8 лет назад +131

    As a violinist, I can definitely attest to the horrendous noise that I was making when I was first learning. "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star" still gives me and my parents nightmares.
    Eddie is absolutely hilarious. Possibly the greatest stand-up comedian of all time.

    • @Rain-Man915
      @Rain-Man915 8 лет назад +6

      giligara30492 i know this is late, but PROBABLY? He is the best!

    • @suzannahstan
      @suzannahstan 5 лет назад +2

      giligara30492 He is the Definite Article! A gift from James Mason’s voice!!

    • @qwertyu30
      @qwertyu30 3 года назад

      I started playing the violin in 4th grade and as you know we were instructed to practice. It wasn't until years later my sister told me she hated the sound of it!😀

  • @kennyhagan5781
    @kennyhagan5781 3 года назад +16

    How on Earth could anyone be so uptight as to not love this? This is great stuff!

  • @jdmagpie
    @jdmagpie 5 лет назад +51

    As a former oboe player in school I nearly died from the blowing into a weasel part 🤣🤣🤣💀

  • @NatashaZooks
    @NatashaZooks 6 лет назад +136

    it really shows his brilliance that every comment here is about a different joke

  • @huntonpeck
    @huntonpeck 5 лет назад +206

    I like how Eddie pronounces "sexy tunes" like it's a brand name, as in; "101 Songs for the Weasel, by Edna Badcrumble, published by SEXITUNES © Inc."

  • @ycAuntieLala
    @ycAuntieLala 5 лет назад +45

    Clarinet section 🖐 hands.
    “The song has been arranged with no real care.” Always funny

  • @andy4an
    @andy4an 11 лет назад +66

    all these years later, I still come back to THIS clip when I need to laugh.

    • @suecastillo4056
      @suecastillo4056 6 лет назад +1

      He's the best! I do the same... When I really want a good laugh😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😆❤️

    • @shantivadevagamer8145
      @shantivadevagamer8145 4 года назад

      Yup... Any of Eddie’s stuff

  • @keeperofthecheese
    @keeperofthecheese 10 лет назад +39

    This show was eddie on his absolute TOP form :D
    Still great too.

  • @studioedin5288
    @studioedin5288 9 лет назад +26

    God I love the old specials one of the best comedians ever (in my miiiind)

  • @AAwildeone
    @AAwildeone 4 года назад +14

    Wow this was great, haven't seen Eddie in awhile. Dressed To Kill one of my fave stand up specials if all time! Just beyond smart!

  • @maddiebarraclough7812
    @maddiebarraclough7812 9 лет назад +382

    As a small child, I actually chose the tuba. Because it was three times my size and everyone thought it was hilarious- joke's on them, because no one plays it particularly well and because I can get a clean note out, I'm in about a million orchestras.

    • @TheFunnygym
      @TheFunnygym 8 лет назад +10

      That's awesome :D

    • @peterjoyfilms
      @peterjoyfilms 7 лет назад +3

      Maddie Barraclough But u don't get to play the interesting bits

    • @Hellwyck
      @Hellwyck 7 лет назад +6

      No, the only bass instrument to play interesting bits is the drums.

    • @incognitomode2956
      @incognitomode2956 6 лет назад +2

      Not quite. It's just the old lady I imagined when Eddie started talking about Mrs. Badcrumble! She's got a tartan dress and a blue jumper & wields a clarinet.

    • @babsgillam8729
      @babsgillam8729 6 лет назад

      Maddie Barraclough -q

  • @MsMarebears
    @MsMarebears 13 лет назад +17

    He is so damned adorable.

  • @ruivog
    @ruivog 5 лет назад +3

    He knows. Fantastic Artist. He always knows what is seriously joking about. I play the clarinet. That's exactly as he says it is.

  • @itsacarolbthing5221
    @itsacarolbthing5221 4 года назад +16

    No matter how many times I see this, and I could recite Definite Artic!e word for word, it still makes me laugh. Every now and then, I will say 'weasel, weasel, weasel' for no reason. Try it, it's deeply amusing. You're welcome.

  • @m.louish.9880
    @m.louish.9880 4 года назад +6

    I love Eddie! Still one of the best comedians EVER.

  • @muskatDR
    @muskatDR 8 лет назад +54

    For some reason my whole class "learned" the play the recorder
    The sounds were something out of a feverdream

    • @nowvoyagerNE
      @nowvoyagerNE 5 лет назад +1

      the reason you never grasped: ALL kids in public schools learn to play an instrument by starting with the recorder. (duh!)

    • @themaggattack
      @themaggattack 4 года назад

      @@nowvoyagerNEAll kids learn on recorders... But WHYYYYY???? GOD, WHHYYYYY???

    • @nowvoyagerNE
      @nowvoyagerNE 4 года назад +1

      @@themaggattack : my, you ARE stupid. because *real* instruments are expensive.

  • @deepalmer3960
    @deepalmer3960 5 лет назад +7

    I’m glad i get to see all him live on all his tours! He is funny af! Never a dull moment,

  • @jofoster9086
    @jofoster9086 10 лет назад +14

    Gotta love me some Eddie Izzard

  • @helenight
    @helenight 9 лет назад +50

    "True story" Eddie said it first!

  • @BluePiggy
    @BluePiggy 9 лет назад +124

    I thought I was going to come apart at the seams when he said "It's like trying to blow into a weasel." I believe the blast of laughter I let out may have registered on the Richter scale.

    • @burrenmagpie5756
      @burrenmagpie5756 4 года назад +1

      Lee Brown I laughed so hard a little pee came out!

  • @themaggattack
    @themaggattack 6 лет назад +42

    "Oh. My. GOD. We have spawned the devil." 😂😂😂

  • @hansijawns
    @hansijawns 6 лет назад +76

    "The cello, slightly bigger, with the spike at the bottom that kills you", this might honestly be my favourite joke of all time...

  • @100crisps
    @100crisps 13 лет назад +25

    "WE WILL SHAG HIM AS SOON AS WE KNOW HOW!" lol XD

  • @jennykatz8058
    @jennykatz8058 10 лет назад +100

    I feel you, I had the same experience, but with an oboe
    Starting out, it's like a dying duck that sits on a fire alarm

    • @kimifur
      @kimifur 5 лет назад +2

      Weasel! Weasel!

  • @foxibot
    @foxibot 5 лет назад +3

    I am like EDDIE and still a hopeless child in spirit.

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube 6 лет назад +18

    very funny bit. especially for anyone who's played an instrument, eddie gets it perfectly.

  • @jcortese3300
    @jcortese3300 7 лет назад +11

    "Entire school band in fifteen seconds" may be his best bit. :-)

  • @fraulein8975
    @fraulein8975 9 лет назад +15

    The kettle drums part is priceless haha

  • @Maerahn
    @Maerahn 7 лет назад +3

    All of it is sheer brilliance, but that part about the Third Part being 'all the notes left over' is SO true!

  • @u4riahsc
    @u4riahsc 2 года назад +3

    When I was in high school we had a bagpipe band and my neighbor tried learning. It was a hideous noise for a few months, but he eventually got the hang of it.

  • @dafyddwynrichards1600
    @dafyddwynrichards1600 6 лет назад +3

    Love Eddie Izzard, still the best

  • @olivercuenca4109
    @olivercuenca4109 10 лет назад +28

    As a tuba player, I can vouch for this. On the other hand, I can play a mean rendition of "The Professionals".

  • @michellegordon456
    @michellegordon456 5 лет назад +6

    I was 3rd clarinet too playing three notes 😊

  • @brianskinner5711
    @brianskinner5711 5 лет назад +1

    My sides are so sore-what a hoot!

  • @sasha1suz
    @sasha1suz 4 года назад +1

    No matter how many times I watch his routines, he always cracks me up!

  • @alfieuk2635
    @alfieuk2635 5 лет назад +9

    "It's piaaaaaaano. It's piaaaaaaano"
    "Its not a fkn piaaaaaaano its a Clarrrrinarrrt"
    As someone who learnt four instruments and hated all of it not being very good at any of them and part of a choir for 9 years as I grew up, this is possibly my favourite comedy sketch. Ever.
    PS. "Weasel Weasel!"

  • @NatashaZooks
    @NatashaZooks 6 лет назад +5

    "piano! piano!" "it's not a fucking piarno, it's a clarinart!" brilliant

  • @ImAFutureGuitarHero
    @ImAFutureGuitarHero 10 лет назад +37

    1:33 Practising:
    YEEEEHYEEEEHYEEEEHYEEEEHYEEEEOHBLOODYHELL

  • @carolined668
    @carolined668 6 лет назад +4

    Genius love him he makes me laugh like im goin to pass out !!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @jameslorman33
    @jameslorman33 4 года назад

    I literally lol every time I see this bit....the kettle drum part is priceless !! I fricken love Eddie !

  • @sharonwright9621
    @sharonwright9621 8 лет назад +23

    my boys are hoping to get to play instruments next year this is all I could think about lol hehehehehe

  • @lsletsoflangerhans782
    @lsletsoflangerhans782 2 года назад +1

    "IT'S NOT A FUCKING PIANO. IT'S A CLAURINAUT!"
    😭😭😭😂😂😂

  • @hsin-yichow5594
    @hsin-yichow5594 3 года назад +1

    have been binge watching your clips for days, thank you for making us laugh with the most intelligent material, cheeks hurt from laughing-----free facelift 🤣🤣🤣 no doubt my favorite commedian/historian/language teacher 👍 one can't top this whole package 0:36 LOLS

  • @denisemcdougal6445
    @denisemcdougal6445 4 года назад +3

    I love him, so cute and funny

  • @Nerdicaful
    @Nerdicaful 9 лет назад +24

    It's a clariNOT!

  • @AnnHattieAnn
    @AnnHattieAnn 12 лет назад +4

    Ten years old. Music lessons offered at my school. So, of course, I desperately wanted to play the violin (so romantic?? lol). My parents, both accomplished musicians themselves, said, "No, the violin is far too difficult. It's tenor sax or nothing."
    whut? nooo
    Well, that sax+case weighed more than I did. So, on "music days," my best friend and I used it as a "bench" while we waited for the school bus.
    Right up until I quit those lessons.
    Mmmhm...in the third torturous month.
    Ah, memories!

  • @chaneleroodt9438
    @chaneleroodt9438 5 лет назад +4

    I actually found my copy of A tune a day this week. 🤣😁😜

  • @tbilly6201
    @tbilly6201 4 года назад

    Eddie you’re the best! 💖 if I would have known you were on RUclips I’ve would have watched these over and over. I used to watch your stand up when it came out. So glad to enjoy again, it’s timeless!

    • @einundsiebenziger5488
      @einundsiebenziger5488 3 года назад +1

      ... you're* the best ...

    • @tbilly6201
      @tbilly6201 3 года назад

      @@einundsiebenziger5488 thanks for pointing out my bad grammar, (usually *) I’m pretty good at catching mistakes like that.

  • @Keirfey
    @Keirfey 2 года назад +1

    I wish I hadn't had to cut out when you visited Rapid City. It would have been lovely to have been able to participate in the Q&A afterwards. Great show ❤ I'm glad you stopped in our little corner of the prairies. 😛 I saw Dress to Kill back in the day, and I still find myself quoting it often. "Do you have a flag? ...CAKE OR DEATH. Well, I'll have the chicken, then." ❤

  • @strumdynasty3050
    @strumdynasty3050 3 года назад +3

    The tempani silencing is what got me xD

  • @NinjaFromMixedLand
    @NinjaFromMixedLand 5 лет назад

    When I was in middle school I found a couple of your videos! My friends and I would do the show at school and every where! Now I’m finding amazing ones still to this day lol greatness

  • @joymckenziewendt4013
    @joymckenziewendt4013 5 лет назад +1

    I love the clarinet

  • @farvista
    @farvista 5 лет назад +3

    My 5 siblings and I were ALL made to join the band. I met my husband in college band. So, as one does (muahahaha!), I made MY kids join band. I'd badly wanted to play French horn, but due to physical impediments, it wasn't allowed, so when the band director decided that my daughter was best suited to French horn, she was (naturally) very much against the idea.
    With her (in later years, very expensive) French horn, she earned a full ride college scholarship.

  • @djdecibelle7346
    @djdecibelle7346 9 лет назад +4

    kettle drum jump! and i DIED of laughter

  • @bicyclist2
    @bicyclist2 5 лет назад

    I love it. This is classic and very funny. Thanks.

  • @Paul_G.
    @Paul_G. 2 месяца назад

    "I have bought a hammer," and "like trying to blow into a weasel" remain common quotes in my household to this day. 😁

  • @michelleparker1796
    @michelleparker1796 6 лет назад +3

    I died at 6:00
    "Piarno, Piarno"
    "It's not a fuckin Piarno, its a Clarin-art!"

  • @elderdragonIce
    @elderdragonIce 13 лет назад +2

    "Who chooses to play the tuba?" I did..... and I love it!

  • @Gratitudejoy21
    @Gratitudejoy21 6 лет назад

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Eddy..., my FAVOURITE for ever!!!! Eva, Belgium

  • @jackbrady666
    @jackbrady666 4 года назад +1

    My school band were actually good. We went on foreign tours to a different country every 2 years. And we played some large venues like the Dixieland festival, I think it was that one, in Germany.

  • @deborahmulkey1627
    @deborahmulkey1627 2 года назад +4

    It strikes me that Eddie is some kind of a British Robin Williams. 😂

  • @RockinAtheist
    @RockinAtheist 7 лет назад +2

    Brilliant!

  • @n3uro42
    @n3uro42 12 лет назад +57

    Stop practicing, I have a bought a hammer!

  • @OszvaldJuhasz
    @OszvaldJuhasz 2 года назад

    brilliant

  • @Nautilus1972
    @Nautilus1972 5 лет назад

    enjoying his autobiography very much .... amazing bloke/lady. Whatever mode he's in.

  • @preferreduser6601
    @preferreduser6601 6 лет назад

    I played the clarinet as a kid as well and I do completely and utterly agree.

  • @sk8rpunkbarbie
    @sk8rpunkbarbie 6 лет назад +8

    we must dance provocatively ha ha

  • @rachell4417
    @rachell4417 3 года назад

    Great stuff

  • @Rozemarijn97
    @Rozemarijn97 6 лет назад

    Eddie Izzard is brilliant

  • @simonrolph3882
    @simonrolph3882 3 года назад

    I can relate to this....first recorder, then violin and at the end french horn. I was shit with all of them. But I turned out to be a fantastic engineer. So really happy.

  • @hiroki_rinn
    @hiroki_rinn 5 лет назад

    I picked up playing flute in high school and still play many moons later. And this bit had me just dying! 🤣🤣🤣⚰️

  • @bravehearticus
    @bravehearticus 4 года назад +2

    I can concur as a child forced to learn clarinet because my eldest sister couldn't as my parents couldn't afford the lessons at the time for her.
    I wanted to learn tap dancing

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt Год назад +7

    I remember buying this on VHS when it came out. The box had a lovely velvety bit on the cover for where her jacket was. It felt really cool and groovy buying stand up by someone that (at that time) still identified as male (lesbian) but wore clothes made for women. I'm not tv but I loved that fact that she brought all that front and centre. She was so androgynous which is so attractive in a person. It gave the confidence and dont give a fuckety fuck to wear nail polish in public. I still enjoy that it confuses people (I'm a he/him).

  • @pip5528
    @pip5528 4 года назад +2

    "Stop practicing! You sound crap! I bought a hammer! You may borrow it if you wish!" I'm dead!

  • @DrewRadley
    @DrewRadley 11 лет назад +11

    Anybody else want a pair of those boots?

  • @oliviahancock2274
    @oliviahancock2274 5 лет назад

    His clarinet noises are so wonderful haha

  • @lonnwy
    @lonnwy 4 года назад +5

    I went to the same primary school as Eddie izzard and I think that we all came out slightly odd, xx

  • @pauledwards8275
    @pauledwards8275 10 лет назад

    Thank You. Pleased to meet you.

  • @43Aquaman
    @43Aquaman 5 лет назад

    Love that jacket.

  • @emnamjen1029
    @emnamjen1029 5 лет назад +1

    Funny af 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love it, very oryginal personality and great sense of humour. ❤👏🏼👏🏼

  • @kiltedcampers
    @kiltedcampers 5 лет назад +1

    I have my tickets Eddie.

  • @andrewbesso4257
    @andrewbesso4257 3 года назад +2

    There are two instruments worse than a clarionet: two clarionets." (sic)
    - Ambrose Bierce

  • @GilraenLuinwe
    @GilraenLuinwe 13 лет назад +4

    'it's not a piar-no it's a clar-in-art!' HAHA

  • @cbalmori
    @cbalmori 6 лет назад +1

    Genius

  • @TWNTYKNOTS
    @TWNTYKNOTS Год назад

    "Piano piano"
    "It's not a piano...it's a clarinart...you weird talking person..."
    I lost it!

  • @vrutty
    @vrutty 13 лет назад

    This is amazing.

  • @sparkytheboomboom
    @sparkytheboomboom 11 лет назад +4

    I CHOSE TO PLAY THE TUBA. OMG XD
    I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN HE SAID THAT. XDDDD

  • @nedrynthecheeto66
    @nedrynthecheeto66 9 лет назад +5

    The timpani bit... That was so accurate...

  • @ANTINUTZI
    @ANTINUTZI 4 года назад +2

    .... I used a #2 reed. Played at the 1964 World's Fair. Have recovered.

  • @simonsimon325
    @simonsimon325 2 года назад

    I love the bit where he says the only way to make it fun was to blow it really loud. You just know Eddie really did that.

  • @tiapanda8824
    @tiapanda8824 9 лет назад +1

    I played The Drums and guitar when I was a young lass Matey's