Eddie Izzard at Brighton Centre

Before battling the wind and rain for the cross-dressing comedian that is Eddie Izzard, we had a quick tapas meal at La Bodega on Church Street. I didn't enjoy it too much personally as we've been spoilt by Hove's Latino through the range of choice but everyone else liked it. If you've been to Pompoko you'll understand the minimum décor to expect as well which made shuffling around tapas plates and multiple bottles around the table challenging for four people.

The evening's tickets were bought way back in February for Kerry's birthday (April). The seats themselves were the last row in the highest balcony next to the disabled section. At least we had the row to ourselves and had a great view of the stalls and impressive stage. Its possibly the biggest comedy event we've been to with a set looking like an ancient pyramid and an animated cell window showing the sun passing then an eye peering in changing into what felt like travelling through space.

Eddie (@eddieizzard) had been hitting the Twitter headlines recently with his marathon running across the UK and used a Twitterfeed of those sending him a message projected onto two massive screens that flanked the stage. It was a nice feature with international followers joining in and Kerry and I managed to Tweet in time, though the mobilephone photos to prove it are a little blurry. The background image was actually the audience being filmed by two cameras switching from embarrassed individuals to hand dancing nutters.

Mr Izzard came out to a blaze of lights and got to work on his set based on how humans came to evolve, religion and language. Someone described watching his performance as having to strap yourself in for the flow of imagination and humour. With only seeing some clips on TV, the performance certainly had imagination and his dinosaur raptor raised a few smiles and giggles with the character later returning in other scenarios. Maybe it was the remoteness of our seats having to rely on the huge display screens took away the atmosphere (the previous night's antics also caused some drowsiness) but the second half was certainly a better experience. The appendix joke really got me plus his come-backs whenever the audience groaned at his cheesy punchlines were well-timed and rehearsed (friends seeing him on the Sunday night had the very same experience).

The whole performance was nearly 2 hours, which is quite good value for a comedian and by the end of it I wanted to hear more. Would I see him again? I think there's other comedians and theatre with fresher ideas and routines out there that would be more worthy to see first. Save your money for Spymonkey's Moby Dick  or their next stage project I'd say.