Eddie Izzard......

viv1969 said:
Remote control lacking a channel change facility?
Brain lacking the capacity to use it?
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My brain can spot a narcissist wanting to give their career a shot in the arm, yours obviously can't. Izzard would probably eat a mile long row of s*** sandwiches in aid for Somali pirates if it got a round of applause. I'll donate money locally where I can see it making a difference, not to some charity showing kids suffering from war while they invest in BAE or some other highly dubious scheme.
 
Laudrup said:
My brain can spot a narcissist wanting to give their career a shot in the arm, yours obviously can't. Izzard would probably eat a mile long row of s*** sandwiches in aid for Somali pirates if it got a round of applause. I'll donate money locally where I can see it making a difference, not to some charity showing kids suffering from war while they invest in BAE or some other highly dubious scheme.
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Good for you!
I'll alert the media!
o_O
 
Laudrup said:
My brain can spot a narcissist wanting to give their career a shot in the arm, yours obviously can't. Izzard would probably eat a mile long row of s*** sandwiches in aid for Somali pirates if it got a round of applause. I'll donate money locally where I can see it making a difference, not to some charity showing kids suffering from war while they invest in BAE or some other highly dubious scheme.
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Eddie Izzard has done a number of events over several years for Comic/Sport relief so I suspect it is not to give his career a shot in the arm as you describe. Just because he isnt on the tv all the time doesnt mean he isnt successful. He seems to have a very successful stand up career.

You can donate whatever you like to whatever cause but I think it is low to slag someone off for helping to raise in excess of £1m irrespective of what you feel about the charity.
 
skiking said:
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You can donate whatever you like to whatever cause but I think it is low to slag someone off for helping to raise in excess of £1m irrespective of what you feel about the charity.
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For some people, it's about as nice as they get. But they'll not see any fault.
 
Comfortably Numb said:
I was a bit irritatated when BBC Breakfast had Kelly Holmes on.

She was whinging about how she, an ex Olympic champion, can possibly manage to run the London Marathon, whilst she chatted with Eddie who'd just finished his 27th! Talk about trying to build your part. :mad:
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Well, firstly, it's in everybody's interest to embiggen her effort. Eddie Izzard has raised a huge amount of money - but without the BBC he would have struggled to raise even a small fraction of that. Kelly Holmes on Breakfast TV saying it's going to be tough may well double the amount of money she's going to raise. Secondly, there's a difference between the expectations on an Olympic athlete running London and a comedian running on his own in South Africa. Despite being a completely different type of runner I suspect she'll get a decent time.

OrangeCanon said:
He does not look like he has the fitness to run one marathon never mind 27. Are some people just built (heart/lung performance) to run long distance?

I trained for 6 months to run my first half marathon and never made managed to go for the full!
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I really think it's more mental than physical. A couple of months ago I was running a laps race. For the first couple of laps I was running along a couple of guys I didn't know. One looked reasonably fit but the other frankly stuck me as a smoker who liked a pint or two :) I heard them discussing their strategy which was "one quickish lap and then just jog out the rest". After 2 laps of sticking with them I was burnt and dropped the pace. I finished in something like 4:10. They both crossed the line 40 minutes before me.
 
skiking said:
Eddie Izzard has done a number of events over several years for Comic/Sport relief so I suspect it is not to give his career a shot in the arm as you describe. Just because he isnt on the tv all the time doesnt mean he isnt successful. He seems to have a very successful stand up career.

You can donate whatever you like to whatever cause but I think it is low to slag someone off for helping to raise in excess of £1m irrespective of what you feel about the charity.
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Eddie Izzard wants to run for London mayor in 2020. Now what would-be politician worth their salt can't spot good PR for doing lets say, charity work? These freelancing luvvies aren't stupid, they can spot an opportunity and a way to keep the applause and jobs rolling in or use them to get to where they are really going.

As for the money raised, Camila Batmanghelidjh raised about £160+ million at her charity, is she worthy of praise?
 
Laudrup said:
Eddie Izzard wants to run for London mayor in 2020. Now what would-be politician worth their salt can't spot good PR for doing lets say, charity work? These freelancing luvvies aren't stupid, they can spot an opportunity and a way to keep the applause and jobs rolling in or use them to get to where they are really going.

As for the money raised, Camila Batmanghelidjh raised about £160+ million at her charity, is she worthy of praise?
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It must be terribly difficult finding clothes to fit over those chips on your shoulder. :rolleyes:
 
In addition to this years running, (and quite apart from the failed attempt in 2012), he also completed 43 marathons in 51 days (Sundays off) in 2009.
 
Laudrup said:
Eddie Izzard wants to run for London mayor in 2020. Now what would-be politician worth their salt can't spot good PR for doing lets say, charity work? These freelancing luvvies aren't stupid, they can spot an opportunity and a way to keep the applause and jobs rolling in or use them to get to where they are really going.

As for the money raised, Camila Batmanghelidjh raised about £160+ million at her charity, is she worthy of praise?
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FFS Words fail me!
 
As I said at the top of the show thread I don't think he's funny in the slightest.
I've seen him once and accidentally watched part of a show of his, sometime later ( I couldn't find the remote quickly enough :D )

But I still admire the feet feat even if there was no money raised.

Laudrup said:
Eddie Izzard wants to run for London mayor in 2020.
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Now that would be funny!
Laudrup said:
Camila Batmanghelidjh raised about £160+ million at her charity
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I had to google her TBH
 
And I think we all know what happened to her charity :(
 
IIRC, it was reputed to begin at home...
 
JonathanRyan said:
Well, firstly, it's in everybody's interest to embiggen her effort. Eddie Izzard has raised a huge amount of money - but without the BBC he would have struggled to raise even a small fraction of that. Kelly Holmes on Breakfast TV saying it's going to be tough may well double the amount of money she's going to raise. Secondly, there's a difference between the expectations on an Olympic athlete running London and a comedian running on his own in South Africa. Despite being a completely different type of runner I suspect she'll get a decent time.

I realise that she will be looking for a decent result, & that makes her preparation different. Also, I have no problem with her appearing on TV, to raise the profile of her event, but to pretend that she's embarking on some sort of earth shattering expedition was ridiculous IMO, & particularly ironic after discussing what Eddie had just done. She could have talked more about the cause & her connection with it, but seemed to want it to be all about her.

As far as his doing it just for PR? I would have thought anyone could think of an easier opportunity than running 700+ miles!
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Comfortably Numb said:
to pretend that she's embarking on some sort of earth shattering expedition was ridiculous
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And to pretend she wasn't would be pretty disrespectful to the thousands of people who have trained for months for this.

Tough one, huh?
 
Laudrup said:
My brain can spot a narcissist wanting to give their career a shot in the arm, yours obviously can't. Izzard would probably eat a mile long row of s*** sandwiches in aid for Somali pirates if it got a round of applause. I'll donate money locally where I can see it making a difference, not to some charity showing kids suffering from war while they invest in BAE or some other highly dubious scheme.
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50% of the money raised by Sport Relief goes to helping disadvantaged kids in the UK, it's not all about war torn countries etc.
 
JonathanRyan said:
I really think it's more mental than physical.
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Not necessarily, Look at this bloke,

Doesn't really give a true impression on his size but he has just broken the Deadlift World Record with 463Kg (1020lb)
This photo gives a better impression of his size,

And you may well be forgiven by thinking it is all about strength which isn't anything to do with fitness.
But I think the following video is even more impressive.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAStrDC0urQ
 
Yeah, I was meaning endurance fitness is more mental than physical. Strength is, you know, strength.
 
JonathanRyan said:
Yeah, I was meaning endurance fitness is more mental than physical. Strength is, you know, strength.
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But to gain that sort of strength takes endurance. High rep dealifts or squats with any sort of real weight on the build up to get that maximum one rep weight takes fitness too. A lot of people will struggle to squat their own body weight, even for 1 rep let alone have the endurance fitness to achieve 20 reps. But then again, once you have started the reps, if you tell yourself you will only manage 6 reps, you will only manage 6 even though physically you can manage more.
You only need to watch Worlds Strongest Man competitions (by coincidence, on now on Spike) to see how much fitness and endurance comes into it as well as mental strength.
Give me an endurance workout with weights every time. I hate Cardio, I get bored before anywhere near worn out or even remotely breathing heavy.
 
jakeblu said:
Interesting, but not surprising, in this social media world, celebrity is everything.

Perhaps Eddie could run a marathon with him, that would certainly lift his profile, and his donations.
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That's it though isn't it? The BBC gets behind Mr Izzard for his amazing challenge and he raises £x million. They don't get behind Alex Gatenby so he pulls in 77p per mile.

Who really raised the money? Who should we really praise for their amazing achievement? Eddie Izzard or the BBC? Does it really matter if it goes to a good cause? (Let's quietly forget that Panorama thing ;) )

I'm pretty sure the previous highest amount raised by somebody running a marathon in the UK was the woman who sadly died near the TV cameras.
 
JonathanRyan said:
That's it though isn't it? The BBC gets behind Mr Izzard for his amazing challenge and he raises £x million. They don't get behind Alex Gatenby so he pulls in 77p per mile.
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I'm not disagreeing with you, always has it been so, celebrities are the modern day ancient deities to be worshipped by the unwashed masses :).
JonathanRyan said:
Who really raised the money? Who should we really praise for their amazing achievement? Eddie Izzard or the BBC? Does it really matter if it goes to a good cause? (Let's quietly forget that Panorama thing ;) )
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I think thats belittling Mr Izzards achievements to be fair, yes he owes the success of the fundraising to the exposure from BBC but he still had run the marathons all by himself.
 
jakeblu said:
I think thats belittling Mr Izzards achievements to be fair, yes he owes the success of the fundraising to the exposure from BBC but he still had run the marathons all by himself.
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True that. But I reckon sometime in the first week I'd be going "hang on, I could have just sat in a bath of baked beans...."
 
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