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- Artist: Eddie Izzard
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- Release Date: February 11, 2003
- Type: Contains explicit content
- Genre: Comedy
Review
The aptly titled Glorious is the culmination of Eddie Izzard's four standup specials of the '90s, and although 1998's Dress to Kill is tough competition, it's the best of the lot. At least it's the best to hear on CD, since it's less reliant on body language than the more physical Dress to Kill. Glorious kicks right off with the Big Topics, starting with God's creation of the world and moving on to a story of Noah and the ark that beats Bill Cosby's better-known version by a country mile (not least because it points out that it was kind of silly for Noah to bring two of any animal that could, y'know, swim) before continuing on into a lengthy and hilarious retelling of the Trojan War culminating in the brilliant "A Huge Fuck-Off Horse." Consistently side-splitting and just about the smartest standup comedy ever performed (a working knowledge of European history and culture is required to catch some of the more subtle jokes), Glorious is Izzard's masterpiece. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Glorious | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (1:55) |
| In Bed With God | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (5:52) |
| Noah on Speed | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (2:24) |
| The Tyranny of Ducks | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (3:30) |
| The River Styx | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (2:16) |
| Mystic Hopscotch | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (1:31) |
| Fill Me With the Gobi Desert | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (2:44) |
| Six Million Dollar Queen | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (5:27) |
| Do You Think I'm Sexy | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (2:57) |
| Helen of Troy | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (0:29) |
| Achilles Footwear | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (4:18) |
| A Hugh Fuck-Off Horse | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (2:15) |
| A Play on Nativity | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (4:35) |
| Crazy St. Peter | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (0:51) |
| Swiss Protection | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (1:17) |
| The Nottingham Twang | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (2:18) |
| My Name Is Tracy | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (3:07) |
| Deus Ex Machina | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (4:27) |
| They Lie to Us | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (1:23) |
| Hell in a Shower | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (0:57) |
| The Flight of the Volkswagen | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (3:46) |
| Birdsuck | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (2:10) |
| I've Got a Bad Feeling | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (2:28) |
| Death by Chocolate | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (2:15) |
| Armageddon | Eddie Izzard | Eddie Izzard | (8:30) |
