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Definite Article is the title of British comedian Eddie Izzard's 1996 performance released on VHS. It was recorded on different nights at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Both recordings cover topics such as The Italian Job, Pavlov's dogs and European languages.
At the beginning of the show, Eddie arrives on stage through a huge book which opens to reveal him sitting at the top of a staircase. The backdrop then closes and from then on the background changes at various intervals with words from selected literature projected onto the pages of the huge book. The chosen selections are:
Jon Stewart, University of Sheffield, Monty Python, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand
Isle of Man, India, Canada, European Union, British Overseas Territories
United Kingdom, City of London, Paris, Greater London, Australia
Grammatical number, Grammatical gender, Slavic languages, Bulgarian language, Middle ages
Macedonian language, International Phonetic Alphabet, Bulgarian language, South Slavic languages, Grammatical gender
Bulgaria, Macedonian language, Turkish language, Serbia, Indo-European languages