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Eddie Izzard Comedian

FINISHES JOKES TWO DAYS AFTER APPLAUSE

Live performance available from Thursday; tonight's show is Tuesday's, with tangents

Existence confidence provisional
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Eddie Izzard stands at a park-and-ride shelter in Oxford holding a tea cup, mid-gesture while explaining something at length to an empty bench, one foot slightly forward as if perpetually mid-stride.
Location
Pasillo 4 of a bus terminal in Mexico City, running two days behind
Currently
Doing Tuesday's gig on Thursday, tangents intact
Last confirmed sighting
Tuesday, finishing a joke that reaches Thursday at 9pm
Observations
Once finished a sentence so late that it arrived before its own punchline.

Eddie Izzard is now running exactly two days behind, like a recorded highlights programme. A joke started on Monday reaches the audience on Wednesday, usually via a bird, a flag and a man who sells bus tickets. The marathon, thankfully, is still counted in real time.

"I sell tickets at Gate 9 and I saw him run past on Tuesday," said Rosario, a bus ticket seller. "My colleague saw him run past on Thursday, so that's definitely the same run. He kept saying 'Do you have a flag?' and I said no, only timetables."

Eddie's own statement was passed on by a pigeon employed as a courier, arriving two days late and in French. It reads: "Yes, I'm fine, but now I must explain the flag, and then the tangent about the flag, and I'll be there shortly. Tell them I've started."

Guidance for the public

Please clap on Thursday for something that already happened on Tuesday.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 7 February 1962. Source: Wikidata

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