Posted on February 7, 2020
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| Izzard is transgender and prefers either "he" or "she" pronouns. In the past, Izzard called himself a transvestite. He has said, "Women wear what they want, and so do I." |
The time I saw Izzard live, he was so completely generous to us, the audience, responding to the request that he stick around afterwards and answer questions. He stayed a long time and was sooooo interesting and wise and sweet.
Izzard is known for making us laugh in multiple languages. He does stand-up in English, French, German, and Spanish, and the languages he wants to start learning next are Russian and Arabic!
Izzard used to joke about the odd things about English - and about English speakers being so much more mono-lingual than most people in the world. (In other words, so many English speakers are not fluent in any other language; in contrast, MANY people around the world speak two or three or even more languages.) But then Izzard decided that he couldn't just joke about languages, he had to joke IN multiple languages. I once listened to a comedy routine from Izzard in French - and I understood almost all of it, even though I don't speak French even a little!
In addition to being a comedian, Izzard is an actor and writer. He's been in serious roles (such as in the TV show The Riches and the Ocean's 12 and 13 movies). He's done voices for animated movies (such as Abominable) and has of course acted in comedic roles (such as Absolutely Anything).
Eddie Izzard is also a political activist. He may quit comedy in order to run for office.When Izzard was in his late 40s, he did this really, really unlikely thing: even though he had never done any long-distance running before, for charity Izzard completed 43 marathons in 51 days!!! Crazy!
Check out some of Izzard's funny bits - acted out in LEGO!
Death Star Canteen Cake or Death?
Evil Giraffe
Do You Have a Flag? - warning: some mild cursing
Technology - warning: some mild cursing
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