Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard

Executive Transvestite

It may seem strange, but my favorite comedian is a transvestite. Yeah, it's not drag queen, no; gay men have got that covered. This is male tomboy, and people do get that mixed up, they put transvestite there - no no no no! Little bit of a crowbar separation, thank you! And gay men, I think, would agree. It's male lesbian, that's really where it is, ok? Because... it's true! 'Cause most transvestites fancy girls, fancy women. He is British and he is fantastic.

I first saw Eddie in a show called Dress to Kill where he goes through history, because he's from Europe, where the history comes from. He also discusses how he handled his make up when he was younger:

I used to keep my makeup in a squirrel hole, up the tree. The squirrel would keep makeup on one side, and he'd keep nuts on the other side. And sometimes I'd get up that tree, and that squirrel would be covered in makeup! ( mimes squirrel putting on makeup ) "La la, la la... Oh! ( mimes squirrel eating ) What?! Fuck off!" He seemed to say. And squirrels always eat nuts with two hands, always two hands, and occasionally, they stop and go ( gasps ), as if they're going, "Did I leave the gas on? No! I'm a fucking squirrel!" And occasionally they go, "Fucking nuts! Fed up with them always. I long for a grapefruit."

Last September, I saw Eddie in concert. He was fan-tab-ulous! We waited after the show and I got his autograph! I love being able to say that I touched Eddie!

Praise for Eddie Izzard

"Eddie Izzard is the best-kept secret in comedy... He has the capacity to make the audience laugh without even saying anything... but when he does start talking, he breathes new life into the over-used word, inspired." James Rampton, The Daily Telegraph

"A human search engine... the funniest boy on the block... a ticklingly entertaining comic with an actor's sense of word and movement, adept at creating little worlds in instant one-man plays." The New York Times

"Izzard's strength lies not just in the all out absurdity of his imagination, but in the mastery with which he structures and patterns his material... Eddie Izzard, to adapt one of his own jokes, is a fool to be suffered most gladly." Financial Times