Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill

Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill (1999) is a British stand-up special filmed live in San Francisco — watch it online on iFILM. At 114 minutes, the show works through pagan and Christian religion, the engineering logic of Stonehenge, Henry VIII's ecclesiastical self-help project, the mechanics of Western empire, and what a European identity might actually mean.

Izzard builds each sequence as a chain of associations — history lesson slides into absurdist tangent, slides back into history, and somehow the structure holds. Regularly cited as one of the great English-language stand-up specials ever recorded. Stream Dress to Kill (1999) online on iFILM.