Eddie, Louis. Louis, Eddie.

We couldn’t decide whether to spotlight Eddie Izzard or Louis C.K., since both comedy titans touch down in the Valley this summer. So, we’re cramming them into one listing, and they’ll probably feel pretty awkward about it. Izzard, stand-up’s best-loved “executive transvestite,” dresses to the nines and pivots wildly from joke to surreal joke, free-associating with the panache of a flamboyant old salt who’s seen it all and hardly believes any of it. C.K., by contrast, is the rare celebrity who still manages, somehow, to pass as a droll everyman, and his shambling but incisive take-downs of humanity’s more hypocritical factions sometimes lean bizarre, but more often hit at our capacity to understand each other’s neuroses — if only we’d be patient and give it a try. Both jokesters, while worlds apart, are legends in their own right. Neither, frankly, need your hard-earned money. But if you dish it out, you’ll get it right back in belly laughs.

Eddie Izzard — Force Majeure: Tuesday, July 26 at 8 p.m. $51.50-$72.50. The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford. (860) 987-5900, bushnell.org.

Louis C.K.: Saturday, Aug. 6 at 8 p.m. $50. MassMutual Center, 1277 Main St., Springfield. (800) 745-3000, massmutualcenter.com.