Remember the date.\u00a0 Blog it.\u00a0 Post it.\u00a0 Tweet it.\u00a0 Put it on your calendar.\u00a0 Have it tattooed on a private and rarely seen organ.\u00a0 Tie a bit of string round the dog\u2019s bollocks to remind you.\u00a0 Leave small notes about the house saying \u201cToday is Dick Day.\u201d Call up your friends.\u00a0 Tell people at work.\u00a0 Email it to people you hardly know.\u00a0 Stop wedding guests in the street and tell them in verse.\u00a0 But do remember the date:<\/p>\n
November 13th<\/sup> is Dick Day.<\/p>\n On that day (or almost a day earlier in Australia) you can begin to download Dick exclusively from www.whataboutdick.com<\/a><\/p>\n Yes this once in a lunchtime offer to see Dick can be yours for only six bucks.\u00a0 Featuring one of the funniest casts ever assembled: \u00a0Russell Brand, Billy Connolly, Tim Curry, Eric Idle,\u00a0 Eddie Izzard, Jane Leeves, Jim Piddock, Tracey Ullman and Sophie Winkleman, talk about bang for your bucks.<\/p>\n Be the first on your block to download it.\u00a0 Plan a Dick party.\u00a0 Come in your pajamas.\u00a0 Or come in her pajamas. \u00a0\u00a0Either way don\u2019t miss this shameless display of public weirdness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ERIC IDLE\u2019S HILIARIOUS COMEDY EVENT <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWHAT ABOUT DICK?\u201d WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL DOWNLOAD TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Featuring an All-Star Cast of: <\/em><\/p>\n Russell Brand, Billy Connolly, Tim Curry, Eric Idle, <\/em><\/p>\n Eddie Izzard, Jane Leeves, Jim Piddock, Tracey Ullman and Sophie Winkleman<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cUtter madness, brilliant innovation, weirdly wonderful… and deeply moving.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 Huffington Post, Jay Weston <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n What is What About Dick?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 A bird?\u00a0 A plane?\u00a0 A superglue? A film for radio? \u00a0A play?\u00a0 A farce? An improv?\u00a0 An albatross?\u00a0 This weird hybrid, somewhere between Greek Tragedy and Professional Wrestling, is a comedy for comedians.\u00a0 It has been variously described as \u201cOscar Wilde on acid,\u201d \u201clike Downton Abbey and almost as funny,\u201d \u201clike E.M Forster on steroids\u201d and \u201ca cross between a budgerigar and an accountant.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>What About Dick?<\/strong> begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley (Eddie Izzard), and tells the story of the subsequent decline of the British Empire as seen through the eyes of a Piano. The Piano (Eric Idle)\u00a0narrates the tale of Dick (Russell Brand); his two cousins: Emma, (Jane Leeves) an emotionally retarded English girl; her kleptomaniac sister Helena (Sophie Winkleman) and their dipsomaniac Aunt Maggie (Tracey Ullman) who all live together in a large, rambling, Edwardian novel.\u00a0\u00a0 When the Reverend Whoopsie (Tim Curry) discovers a piano on a beach, a plot is set afoot that can be solved only by a private Dick, the incomprehensible Scottish sleuth Inspector McGuffin (Billy Connolly) who with the aid of Sergeant Ken Russell (Jim Piddock) finally reveals the identity of the Houndsditch Mutilator.<\/p>\n The show features eight new songs from Eric Idle and John Du Prez, the Grammy-award winning duo who brought you Spamalot <\/strong>and the comic Oratorio, Not The Messiah (He\u2019s a Very Naughty Boy<\/strong>)\u00a0including Arsetrology, Blow Me (a Kiss in the Moonlight) He\u2019s Different (not Gay) and The Lament of the Lonely Trout.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cA comic free-for-all.\u201d Tim Curry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge laugh.\u00a0 It could rip your lungs out.\u00a0 People could watch this and laugh too much and die, so that\u2019s, that\u2019s the danger.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually dangerous to watch this\u2026\u201d Eddie Izzard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>\u201cThese people are people that live for laughter!\u00a0 They\u2019re dangerous people to be around.\u00a0 They\u2019ll do anything!\u201d Russell Brand<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u201cMost of the audiences have no idea what it is\u2026 They know there\u2019s a vaguely suggestive title and they know the list of names and that\u2019s why they\u2019re in here!\u201d Billy Connolly<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>\u201cThe audience loves hearing those Python rhythms and that Python language\u2026 but we\u2019re adding ourselves to it too and going off in riffs of madness\u2026\u201d Tracey Ullman<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u201cGenuinely a spirit of anarchy.\u201d This cast is unique.\u00a0 You\u2019ll never see this cast together again doing something like this.\u201d Eric Idle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>\u201cEveryone who watches it gets free glue for life!\u201d Eddie Izzard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com\/whataboutdick<\/a>,<\/p>\n follow on Twitter at https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/whataboutdick<\/a><\/p>\n or add on Google+ at http:\/\/gplus.to\/WhatAboutDick<\/a>.<\/p>\n