Eddie Izzard Uses Richard Pryor’s Stand-Up Technique In Her New Stage Show, “Great Expectations”

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  • Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
  • Emmy-winner and TONY-nominee Eddie Izzard tells Stephen about studying Richard Pryor for inspiration for her performance in her new one-person stage show, an adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, “Great Expectations,” which opens tomorrow at the Greenwich House Theater in New York City.
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  • @Tonyhouse1168
    @Tonyhouse1168 Год назад +1756

    Eddie’s Dressed To Kill and Glorious are two of the finest comedy specials I’ve ever seen in a long life filled with lots and lots of stand-up. Just a personal opinion.

  • @stoverboo
    @stoverboo Год назад +517

    I was in hospital for four days, following surgery, and the entire time I was too sick and exhausted to read the books I had brought with me. However, I had discovered Eddie Izzard a year or so before, and had watched and re-watched so many clips on RUclips, that I lay quietly in my bed, smiling, running those clips through my brain. Whenever I remember those days, I chiefly remember Cake or Death and Star Wars Cafeteria and James Bond Chuckling Like a Dog and Italians Riding Scooters. Eddie Izzard made those painful days bearable, and, in retrospect, funny.

    • @kaylinsmith6921
      @kaylinsmith6921 Год назад +23

      I just have to say, "Ciao."

    • @cassylow9418
      @cassylow9418 Год назад +5

      A hoocha hoocha hoocha .... lobster 🦞🦀🦞🦀🦞 🤣😜

    • @eggandchips4t
      @eggandchips4t Год назад +9

      And ''all covered in BEES!!' And ''if bees make honey do spiders make gravy?''! Love Eddie ❤️

    • @mustardistasty
      @mustardistasty Год назад

      I DO NOT NEED A TRAY TO KILL YOU

    • @Bookworm8793
      @Bookworm8793 Год назад +19

      I have never in my life seen my uncle laugh harder than he did during Death Star Canteen when Vader says, "This is not a game of who the fuck are you."
      Eddie's standup has gotten me through plenty of dark times and hard nights, and I so admire everything she does.

  • @aaronpeart
    @aaronpeart Год назад +815

    8 minutes is not enough, such a talented and compassionate person

    • @dolores2716
      @dolores2716 Год назад +25

      I could listen to her talk about anything all day long.

    • @erincassidy-cernanec9755
      @erincassidy-cernanec9755 Год назад +9

      I agree. 8 mins is too short. I can listen to Eddie for hours!

    • @madboyrex
      @madboyrex Год назад +4

      Yes!! More Izzard, please Late Night

    • @tinkywinky56
      @tinkywinky56 Год назад +1

      @MsMissy hey TERF 👋 hope you enjoy being a shill for the christofascist industrial complex

    • @rexboston
      @rexboston Год назад +9

      @@dolores2716 it is a HIM

  • @charlenemack7040
    @charlenemack7040 Год назад +25

    I haven’t seen Eddie izzard in a long long time quite a change. But I loved him back then, and I can love her now.💗💗💗

    • @maryscottoconnor9711
      @maryscottoconnor9711 Год назад +2

      @beaudile7730
      Why are you so invested in how other people identify themselves?

    • @charlenemack7040
      @charlenemack7040 Год назад +1

      @@maryscottoconnor9711 I just like people and think they should be accepted for who they are we all should be. I’m very overweight not many people except that, even I still have a hard time with it. I think the world would be a lot better if people would just 🐝kinder to each other.

  • @erykaton170
    @erykaton170 Год назад +155

    Eddie just excels at everything. Marathon runner, acting, standup comedy, activism. Just incredibly impressive person.

    • @Avidcomp
      @Avidcomp 7 месяцев назад

      Crap at politics

    • @erykaton170
      @erykaton170 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@Avidcomp I'm not sure that's a negative. Lol

    • @Avidcomp
      @Avidcomp 7 месяцев назад

      @@erykaton170 Only if the idiots voted him in... but they didn't.

  • @michaeld1889
    @michaeld1889 Год назад +282

    Eddie Izzard's Dressed to Kill is still my favorite stand up special. I quote it literally almost every day. Love her.

    • @maidenlessjessofchaos4484
      @maidenlessjessofchaos4484 Год назад +12

      Cake or death!?

    • @maidenlessjessofchaos4484
      @maidenlessjessofchaos4484 Год назад +6

      I genuinely know what that feels like. I adapted a bit of her timing to make my own droll patter more lively. "You know they will
      ..
      .. beat you with sticks."

    • @michaeld1889
      @michaeld1889 Год назад +14

      But do you have a flag?

    • @michaeld1889
      @michaeld1889 Год назад +4

      @@maidenlessjessofchaos4484 I agree and so well said. That special came around in my early 20s and totally altered how I deliver a remark or observation.

    • @maidenlessjessofchaos4484
      @maidenlessjessofchaos4484 Год назад +13

      @michaeld1889 "Britain?" "Wot?" "What's that behind yout back?" " OH it's..India, and a... number of other countries" She's just a gem to comedy. Imitation really is the best form of flattery

  • @crptnite
    @crptnite Год назад +186

    We love you, Eddie!!! You've always been a source of inspiration. Thank you for all you do 💜🙏🏽🕊️

  • @kaylinsmith6921
    @kaylinsmith6921 Год назад +58

    One of my favorite college memories was quoting Death Star Canteen in my Cell and Molec lab class, and my professor stopping everything to pull up the video and having us watch the Lego dubbed version. Been a fan for a long time, and I sincerely hope she's able to break through into politics. I think she'll do well...and do good.

  • @merlapittman5034
    @merlapittman5034 Год назад +54

    I love Eddie Izzard - not only hilariously funny but also very intelligent and a caring person

    • @boywonder6659
      @boywonder6659 Год назад

      He’s mentally ill, you do know that don’t you?

    • @eoghan-1778
      @eoghan-1778 Год назад

      @@boywonder6659 I’m a psychiatrist, and I’d wager there’s more illness involved in ejaculating your bigotry into the comments of a feelgood interview clip than in living your truth 👍

    • @u4riahsc
      @u4riahsc 3 месяца назад

      She would have been a fantastic history professor.

  • @hawkweb9063
    @hawkweb9063 Год назад +19

    Eddie izzard is and has always been one of my most adored humans, philanthropic, hard working, hilarious, intelligent, so much love for her. Had huuuge crush when I was in my twenties. Now just total admiration x

  • @foxbat1766
    @foxbat1766 Год назад +28

    "Tea and Cake, OR DEATH!" 🤣

    • @kerrymoya6560
      @kerrymoya6560 5 месяцев назад

      Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!🤗🤗😍😍😁😁😁

  • @UtenaXenite
    @UtenaXenite Год назад +189

    Eddie just articulated exactly my driving force in life- to get/keep myself together so I can reach out and help others. So proud of her for lighting the way for so many!!

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +8

      HIM

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +6

      He's a DUDE, can't you tell?

    • @johnlittle3430
      @johnlittle3430 Год назад +6

      @@frontenac5083 Not anymore! Something changed! Something ineffable, something completely personal, and something that science and objective reality have nothing to do with! What a time to be alive.

    • @kidlitfanful
      @kidlitfanful Год назад +9

      @@frontenac5083 I can tell what pronouns this LADY uses, why can't you!

    • @kidlitfanful
      @kidlitfanful Год назад +8

      @@frontenac5083 HER!

  • @nancymcmonarch
    @nancymcmonarch Год назад +48

    Didn't even realize it until now, but Eddie Izzard was exactly what was missing in my life today. 🤗 Looking fabulous, too!

    • @TNT-km2eg
      @TNT-km2eg Год назад

      There's a lot missing in your "life"

    • @nancymcmonarch
      @nancymcmonarch Год назад

      @@TNT-km2eg 😄 Who shat in your sherbet?

    • @TNT-km2eg
      @TNT-km2eg Год назад

      @@nancymcmonarch
      What an educated, polite , ladylike , fulminant person (?) you are

  • @courtneysmith6082
    @courtneysmith6082 Год назад +297

    DRESSED TO KILL is THE comedy special of ALL TIME. Period, the end. My entire family quotes it constantly “like you do”

    • @anabarbulescu4043
      @anabarbulescu4043 Год назад +18

      To this day I can't accept a piece of cake like a normal person.
      them: cake? ^.^
      me: or death...... O.O
      Them: --_--

    • @churrothiev8387
      @churrothiev8387 Год назад +1

      Lol so much wisdom on that "like you do". Effing nerd

    • @defiantgardener
      @defiantgardener Год назад +4

      yes! the most quotable ever! love!

    • @stanleyhape8427
      @stanleyhape8427 Год назад +3

      @@anabarbulescu4043 cake please😃

    • @stephanieharchar5463
      @stephanieharchar5463 Год назад +5

      Well we ran out of cake..

  • @laughingalltheway8399
    @laughingalltheway8399 Год назад +21

    Eddie Izzard is such a wonderful human being. I could listen to her speak forever.

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад

      "Human being". Lol.
      The new phrase cherished by the woketards.
      He's a man.
      How hard is it to say?

    • @davidgraham8058
      @davidgraham8058 Год назад

      Her?

    • @oxymoron02
      @oxymoron02 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@davidgraham8058 Yes.
      I hope this answer helped.

    • @u4riahsc
      @u4riahsc 3 месяца назад

      She is so intelligent and such a wonderful person.

  • @devikwolf
    @devikwolf Год назад +131

    We love you Eddie!!!! Absolute comedy legend and social icon!!

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +3

      Really?
      In your narrow bubble, maybe...

    • @davidgraham8058
      @davidgraham8058 Год назад +2

      She’s the greatest woman ever. There’s never been a woman so womanly. It takes a man to be a real woman. 😂😂😂😂

    • @PADS62
      @PADS62 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@davidgraham8058 👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @hughbarton5743
    @hughbarton5743 Год назад +162

    Two brilliant humans talking directly??? What else could you ask for? I could watch hours of Stephen and Eddie, without ever feeling I wasted a precious second of my life.
    Thank you both so much!

    • @churrothiev8387
      @churrothiev8387 Год назад +3

      Brilliant? Gullible. They're both in their bubbles. You can't expect better from people in the media. The amount of time Stephen pretends to fan girl about space science is ridiculous. Keeps interviewing bad-math Neil Tyson

    • @tonymontana6550
      @tonymontana6550 Год назад +3

      BRILLIANT??? 🤣🤣🤣

    • @lizardchild2004
      @lizardchild2004 Год назад +8

      @@churrothiev8387 You don't have to watch their videos you know...

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +2

      "Humans"? Lol!
      What about, "two men", woke degenerate?

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +1

      @@lizardchild2004 We don't watch their videos, you know.
      Joke making fun of the woke mob in the comments.

  • @alisonmadden6522
    @alisonmadden6522 Год назад +36

    Yay good for Eddie - 20 years ago when my son was seven we discovered the Star Wars Death star lunch room skit and oh my god did we watch that hundreds of times, what a great person

    • @stanleyhape8427
      @stanleyhape8427 Год назад +2

      Lol the first time i saw it. I was so overwhelmed with the awesomeness .i had to watch it multiple times just to take it all in , followed by hundreds more .😃😃😃😃

  • @jdj830
    @jdj830 Год назад +221

    The amount of material they covered in eight minutes is more than you can find in most hour-long interviews

    • @MISNM0
      @MISNM0 Год назад +5

      Fr fr

    • @maryk3458
      @maryk3458 Год назад +10

      Talked soooo fast, but I loved the segment. Very interesting character.

    • @forallthestupidshit3550
      @forallthestupidshit3550 Год назад +18

      To be able to casually refer to tragedies that motivated life changes in a conversation that was still funny and informative is truly inspiring.

    • @rachaelstaes3500
      @rachaelstaes3500 Год назад

      It was so refreshing to listen to a faster spoken conversation with sustenance bc I have trouble focusing, so I was actually able to pay attention and be intrigued. It made my brain happy lol.

  • @maungl
    @maungl Год назад +10

    How have I missed out on Eddie Izzard all these years?! What a wonderful human!! 💜

    • @Snaakie83
      @Snaakie83 Год назад

      Very intelligent, very worldly, very energetic, very exceptional.
      Overall a very complete artist.

  • @diogenes5654
    @diogenes5654 Год назад +7

    I love Eddie; talent, intelligence, determination, comedy, and compassion: what a mix

  • @freda2758
    @freda2758 Год назад +78

    Here's what I love about Eddie: There is no pause between mentioning her many accolades and achievements. There are seldom any pauses for breath.
    She's not interested in waited for any confirmation from the audience. That they're there is simply a matter of happenchance. She simply states her case, very matter of factly, and moves on to the next subject.
    I have always loved that about her. Definitely on my list of people I would be delighted to meet.

    • @tpierce104
      @tpierce104 Год назад +2

      Truly a phenomenal human being.

    • @TACALACA
      @TACALACA Год назад

      *happenstance

    • @pirobot668beta
      @pirobot668beta Год назад

      She's not doing any of this for recognition or gain, she's doing it because it directly benefits someone else.

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 Год назад +1

      he

  • @freda2758
    @freda2758 Год назад +24

    I have always had the most respect for Eddie. Awesome human being.

  • @lcflngn
    @lcflngn Год назад +52

    Love Eddie SO much. Trailblazer, icon, and at bottom just a lovely wonderful person. Always rooting for her.

  • @HarrisBanneck
    @HarrisBanneck Год назад +28

    Saw her perform her “Wunderbar” show in San Francisco back in 2019. One of the most fun experiences I ever had and so incredible to see a legendary comedian performing live.

    • @bobtheskutterbot
      @bobtheskutterbot Год назад +2

      I was there too. The audience even hissed just the same as in Dress to Kill.

    • @HarrisBanneck
      @HarrisBanneck Год назад

      @@bobtheskutterbot the audience didn’t hiss when I was there. I assumed it was because Izzard learned from Dress to Kill to not call San Francisco “Frisco”. But that’s still very funny. Gotta love the city of snakes.

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +4

      Saw who perform?
      This video is about a male former comedian...

    • @hopelessatusernames
      @hopelessatusernames Год назад +2

      Him

    • @nadiahassan5307
      @nadiahassan5307 Год назад +1

      @@frontenac5083 Better get your eyes checked

  • @fayeb.5855
    @fayeb.5855 Год назад +147

    “I don’t believe in the guy upstairs, I believe in us.” Well said Eddie. ❤️❤️

    • @moodyonroody5313
      @moodyonroody5313 Год назад +4

      He believes he's a woman tho - with no evidence.

    • @lemondrop7305
      @lemondrop7305 Год назад +4

      @@moodyonroody5313 ok why do you care so much 😂

    • @tamcon72
      @tamcon72 Год назад

      @@moodyonroody5313 Who is uprating your peevish baby garbage?

    • @christiansebastianlauritse2404
      @christiansebastianlauritse2404 5 месяцев назад

      @@moodyonroody5313No, Eddie is perfectly aware that her biology is male.
      Same as I’m sure you’re perfectly aware that you were not biologically created to wear jeans, but you choose to anyway.
      And she chooses to break from her biology in another way.
      This is not complicated.

  • @tiffdunh
    @tiffdunh Год назад +51

    I remember her “have you got a flag?” sketch, I still quote it today! Love you Eddie! ❤

    • @paddawan_
      @paddawan_ Год назад

      Love that sketch

    • @Bookworm8793
      @Bookworm8793 Год назад +5

      No flag, no country. That's the rules that I've just made up. And I'm backing it up with this gun, lent to me by the National Rifle Association.

    • @hopelessatusernames
      @hopelessatusernames Год назад +1

      His

    • @mattlittle3330
      @mattlittle3330 Год назад +1

      My wife and I's favorite!

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 Год назад

      his

  • @04beni04
    @04beni04 Год назад +49

    I cried, I laughed, I learned something. Stephen sets a high bar for celebrity interviews.

  • @NeilCrouse99
    @NeilCrouse99 Год назад +175

    No matter what you think of Eddie, she has led one of the most interesting, exciting and actively open-minded lives ever. Her soul was as active as possible and not a wasted adventure ..

    • @tinkywinky56
      @tinkywinky56 Год назад +19

      @MsMissy she not your business 😚

    • @Hiforest
      @Hiforest Год назад +11

      @MsMissy If you're ignorant, I guess. She's she - why do you think you get a say in it?

    • @johnmcgrath2985
      @johnmcgrath2985 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/u-6JEvq3eG8/видео.html

    • @montywalton7108
      @montywalton7108 Год назад +5

      She's still alive man!

    • @kobrowsky
      @kobrowsky Год назад +1

      @@montywalton7108 That's why present perfect continious. She HAS been.

  • @gennaroconnors9304
    @gennaroconnors9304 Год назад +9

    Izzard is so damn intelligent, funny, and such an awesome person. would be a way better world if there were more like Eddie Izzard.

  • @entropybentwhistle
    @entropybentwhistle Год назад +28

    Eddie Izzard still owes me a lung transplant for making me laugh so hard I had a major asthma attack (During “Dress To Kill”).

    • @christineadams3454
      @christineadams3454 Год назад +2

      OMG, I hear you. I wheezed through all three hours, laughing so hard my diaphragm froze up and I literally could not catch a breath.

  • @lw3269
    @lw3269 Год назад +63

    Eddie is such a gem. A master of smart humor.

  • @TheMarizanebogdan
    @TheMarizanebogdan Год назад +10

    What an outstanding interview!! Such a pleasure to hear someone so smart like Eddie.

  • @ruzica1974
    @ruzica1974 Год назад +15

    By far the best contemporary comedian! As someone already mentioned, 8 minutes is ridiculously short for such a grandeur!

    • @murphydp
      @murphydp Год назад +1

      I had to check that my RUclips wasn't on double- speed they were talking so fast to make the most of the time! I wish she'd been the main guest.

  • @bartman64
    @bartman64 Год назад +19

    My only experience I have with Great Expectations is from the South Park episode. I can’t wait to see how Eddie does the robot monkeys

  • @robduncan2816
    @robduncan2816 Год назад +7

    Eddie doesnt try to be anything other than Eddie, not labeled, not unlabeled, not gay, not straight, not man, not woman, just unapologetically, Eddie. i can totally support that. its so damn refreshing!

    • @PADS62
      @PADS62 11 месяцев назад +1

      Your comment should have Thousands of likes!
      Eloquently said. Thank you. 😊

  • @florian2442
    @florian2442 Год назад +279

    As a 90s kid, my first introduction to Eddie Izzard was short youtube videos combining her stand up that someone "dubbed" with lego motion-pictures. It was hilarious and my parents cracked up too when I showed them. Truly brilliant stand-up

    • @larkmars8182
      @larkmars8182 Год назад +2

      Yt was founded in 2006 bud

    • @avelord6135
      @avelord6135 Год назад +24

      @@larkmars8182 He didn't say he saw it in the 90's, he said "as a 90's kid".......read twice before comenting bud 😀

    • @shabadoo572
      @shabadoo572 Год назад +13

      This one is wet. this one is wet. Did you dry these in a rainforest ?

    • @j.demarco8937
      @j.demarco8937 Год назад

      You watched RUclips in the 90s...?

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Год назад +5

      Ah, good old Mr Stephens.

  • @mita6010
    @mita6010 Год назад +8

    Eddie Izzard is not only outrageously funny as a stand up, but is a terrific actor and a compassionate soul.

  • @angelaweibel4660
    @angelaweibel4660 Год назад +73

    What a fantastic and superbly funny person, Eddie is. What an international treasure!

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +1

      "Person"?
      Lol!
      Give me a break, woketard!

    • @johnlewis9158
      @johnlewis9158 Год назад

      Yea and the sooner they bury him with the rest of the treasure the better

    • @lemondrop7305
      @lemondrop7305 Год назад

      @@johnlewis9158 who is going to bury them?

    • @davidspears700
      @davidspears700 Год назад

      @@johnlewis9158 Get a life

    • @TNT-km2eg
      @TNT-km2eg Год назад

      John Lewis
      Yeah , he should have died long ago and stay in good memory

  • @Xena3
    @Xena3 Год назад +40

    Eddie just keeps it real and fabulous. Thank you!

  • @mustardistasty
    @mustardistasty Год назад +36

    One of the only comedians whose old work is still hilarious. Aged like a fine wine

  • @maryh4124
    @maryh4124 Год назад +7

    Loved her immensely since I first watched Dress to Kill every time it was on Comedy Central in the late 90's. Favorite Comedian of all time. ❤

  • @plumafina
    @plumafina Год назад +46

    What a transition! I fell in love with this person since the first time I witnessed one of hir specials. Brilliant, a brilliant, loving, caring person. I hug you my dear!

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Год назад +1

      'hir'
      That isn't how Izzard chooses to be described.

    • @plumafina
      @plumafina Год назад

      @@Tao_Tology HOW THEN?

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Год назад

      @@plumafina Tantrums are for kids. Lose the all caps

    • @VinceValentine
      @VinceValentine Год назад +3

      @@plumafina It's right there in the video title, you know

    • @plumafina
      @plumafina Год назад

      @@VinceValentine Thanks. I had not read the video title. I only recognized her and watched the video.

  • @janetttyminski7295
    @janetttyminski7295 Год назад +8

    What a pleasure to read all the positive comments about Eddie. She radiates goodness.

  • @calichristmas
    @calichristmas Год назад +160

    It’s so refreshing to hear from someone who’s had struggles with their sexual identity and determined to be positive & proactive, using comedy. Good for her!

    • @aliciacordero8399
      @aliciacordero8399 Год назад +17

      If I may offer a nitpick, gender identity*
      But I agree, good for her!

    • @maryk3458
      @maryk3458 Год назад +4

      "Her" identity, not their. Eddie (currently) uses She/Her.

    • @lavenderoh
      @lavenderoh Год назад +12

      @@maryk3458 their is always acceptable as it's neutral.

    • @mldrfan
      @mldrfan Год назад +5

      @@lavenderoh unless one is aware of the person’s preferred pronouns. And since Stephen introduced Eddie using “she,” and because her pronouns are now common knowledge, it is the respectful thing to do to refer to her with she/her.
      And if one was unaware of said preferred pronouns, the reply that shows you respect the use of preferred pronouns would be something like “noted, thanks for the correction,” rather than arguing why you chose to use the term you used.

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Год назад +14

      @@maryk3458 (sigh) You can always, still, refer to a person as 'them', regardless of their gender identity.
      It's a third person pronoun.

  • @70foolio
    @70foolio Год назад +8

    Eddie is so beautiful and kind and we need more people like her.
    Very talented and I love her outlook on life, keep on being amazing.
    I love you. ❤️

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 Год назад

      him

    • @christiansebastianlauritse2404
      @christiansebastianlauritse2404 5 месяцев назад

      @@jonhohensee3258I cannot believe you care enough to comment this.
      Sure, if your comment was meant to spread you and make Eddie feel good - take all the time you need - but you act took time out of your day to make someone sad…
      That’s just vile.

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 5 месяцев назад

      @@christiansebastianlauritse2404 Eddie is a man.

    • @christiansebastianlauritse2404
      @christiansebastianlauritse2404 5 месяцев назад

      @@jonhohensee3258 You are mindnumpingly unintelligent…

  • @navpot_monkey
    @navpot_monkey Год назад +10

    One person show of great expectations is just WILD!! Only Eddie could do it. What a power house!

    • @murphydp
      @murphydp Год назад

      I want to see this so bad! Great Expectations was one of my favourite books, and I would love to see how Eddie does a one-person show of it. Although I think it'd be hard not to be expecting her to make absurdist comedy out of all of the dialogue ...

  • @niamhperreault4844
    @niamhperreault4844 Год назад +56

    I grew up watching Eddie back home , I studied french and she impressed the bejaysus out of me doing stand up in French at a time where I could barely conduct a basic conversation, comedy in a non native language shows some SERIOUS chops. She is a National treasure!

  • @ellenspear50
    @ellenspear50 Год назад +11

    Izzard's look here strongly reminds me of Tony Curtis in Some Like it Hot.

  • @margagomezcomedy
    @margagomezcomedy Год назад +73

    Gotta Flex - I saw Eddie perform live in the East Village in 1996. Amazing then and now.

    • @sibylsaint
      @sibylsaint Год назад +7

      Damn, that's quite a flex.

    • @sunbunnow
      @sunbunnow Год назад +9

      Well, I’ll flex too. Lol
      I saw her in 2002 and got to meet and take a picture with her. Lol

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Год назад +6

      Pah.
      I still have my original Definite Article VHS tape.
      And, yes, it has the fuzzy felt jacket on the cover.

    • @margagomezcomedy
      @margagomezcomedy Год назад +2

      @@sunbunnow I'm Jelly

    • @margagomezcomedy
      @margagomezcomedy Год назад +3

      @@Tao_Tology But do you have a VCR?😉

  • @SummerDream222
    @SummerDream222 Год назад +13

    What an inspiring human. Wow

  • @darkzomb
    @darkzomb Год назад +103

    I love her. She was one of my first queer exposures, and her humor has always been intelligent, relying on the absurdiy of human beings rather than insulting people. She needs to be everywhere

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +4

      Who do you love?
      Who are you talking about?

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +5

      @Louis Kirkwood Who is "she"?
      You comment on the wrong video me think!

    • @CrzyDemona
      @CrzyDemona Год назад

      @Louis Kirkwood Frontenac is just a troll. They have nothing better to do with their life than go through videos trying to make fun of "The Libs". Just report them as harassment and block.

    • @GreyDancer42
      @GreyDancer42 Год назад +9

      @@frontenac5083 My condolences to your family.

    • @garyg68
      @garyg68 Год назад

      @@frontenac5083 Me think you think you're funny when you're just a small minded fool!

  • @jules3085
    @jules3085 Год назад +8

    I want an extended interview! Incredible individual ❤

  • @whatiwasgoingtosay
    @whatiwasgoingtosay Год назад +7

    I need to see Eddie live again. Best comedian ever!

  • @garyproffitt5941
    @garyproffitt5941 Год назад +1

    Very bright Eddie Izzard with so much joy and entertaining new and old critics and so thoughtful and very clever through and through.

  • @rjcarter2904
    @rjcarter2904 Год назад +85

    She is an amazing person. Brilliant, thoughtful, funny, and an incredibly talented performer.

    • @daniellamcgee4251
      @daniellamcgee4251 Год назад +16

      @@lolcopeharder8135 You seem confused about the concept of gender. Fortunately, Eddie isn't. That's why you can learn from her. :-)

    • @Hankblue
      @Hankblue Год назад +12

      @@daniellamcgee4251 He identified as an 'executive transvestite' up until about 3 minutes ago and his name is Eddie, so I'm gonna go with he lol. The fact that he's trying to be trendy and relatable as a politician is just fluff.

    • @DonoVideoProductions
      @DonoVideoProductions Год назад +13

      @@Hankblue And why does it matter to you how she identifies? Do people not get to grow and change? Make discoveries about themselves? It makes you feel good to judge and shame them? You need to grow and change yourself.

    • @Hankblue
      @Hankblue Год назад +7

      @@DonoVideoProductions Why does it matter to you what pronoun I use? I'm not judging anyone, do you hear me saying Eddie needs to 'grow and change himself'? No, that's you judging. I'm simply responding to the person who said anyone using 'he' must be confused.
      It's great that you discover yourself. I made a discovery about the way I relate to people, and it involves using pronouns for them that make sense to me. It makes you feel good to judge me for it?

    • @kaylinsmith6921
      @kaylinsmith6921 Год назад +12

      @@Hankblue Your opinion of someone's pronouns is irrelevant. You don't get to decide them for someone else. Eddie has been very clear in the past decade of her shift from "transvestite" to "transwoman." You would know that if you actually followed her career, but you don't. You just want to spew vitriol at transpeople because you believe it's an attention grab. It's who she is. And if you can't respect that, at least be decent enough to just keep your thoughts in your own brain. Nobody else wants to hear/read them.

  • @peppy_pepper_player823
    @peppy_pepper_player823 Год назад +9

    LOVE Eddie Izzard! LOVE LOVE!

  • @kaitlinsullivan3134
    @kaitlinsullivan3134 Год назад +78

    It was one thing to hear the "cake or death" bit imitated by your friends when you were growing up, and a whole other when you got to see the legend herself perform it on Dressed to Kill. She's such an icon!

    • @dynamo_spade
      @dynamo_spade Год назад +1

      ✌🏻 second that 🤙🏻
      i can never get tired of rewatching that special over and over 🤗
      it was brilliant how s/he handled the crowd hissing 🐍 when he called it frisco 😝
      apparently , , _friscians_ call it *the city* 🤪
      10 years back, the whole show was available on youtube . alas , now you can only find it in fragments here 😥
      🙏🏻 does anyone know where i can find the whole show complete ❔

    • @julius_the_python
      @julius_the_python Год назад +2

      HIMself.

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +3

      He is a man.
      Are you blind?

    • @laurelgardner
      @laurelgardner Год назад +2

      @@frontenac5083 lol fugoff

    • @foxycinnamon7307
      @foxycinnamon7307 Год назад

      @@dynamo_spade Amazon Prime Video

  • @jndancer
    @jndancer Год назад +3

    How amazing! I love Eddie. Also love the fact that Charles Dickens, in later years, would tour doing readings of his novels. So it's great to see it still happening!

  • @Freeden
    @Freeden Год назад +4

    Eddie is always a delight to listen to. I wish this interview were longer and I wish Eddie success in getting into politics. The world needs more people who try to do the right thing like he does.

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 Год назад +29

    Eddie is one of the most intelligent, hilarious and unique comedians I've ever seen. Watch "Cake or Death." For a sample from Dressed to Kill, then watch it all! One of a kind like Mitch Hedberg.

    • @judeirwin2222
      @judeirwin2222 Год назад +1

      No. He cannot be the "most unique". There are no degrees of comparison for
      uniqueness. You are or are not unique. Unique means one of a kind. How could you be more one of a kind than someone else?

    • @KatieGray1
      @KatieGray1 Год назад +2

      @@judeirwin2222 If you think about it man, we're all like one of a kind. Seriously though, yes not everyone is aware of how you can't claim something is unique and also one of two things. Education isn't equal everywhere, but I often think that criticism is better directed at making sure we value educators properly (by paying them what they're worth) and not at individual people who don't know what they don't know. After all, none of us really do.

  • @lisaspikes4291
    @lisaspikes4291 Год назад +3

    I’ve always loved Eddie Izzard. What a great person! 💖💖💖

  • @iamqotl
    @iamqotl Год назад +75

    I saw Eddie 20 years ago and her intellect and quick wit was astounding. What a talent.

    • @sunbunnow
      @sunbunnow Год назад +3

      I saw her 20 years ago too! And got the pleasure of meeting and taking a picture with her.

    • @shabadoo572
      @shabadoo572 Год назад +14

      @@drhgllg919 her. Eddie has always been trans and reffered to their ambiguous gender their whole career. If they wish to now be identified as her/she then identify her as such.
      To deliberately use the opposite of what she prefers is ignorance or malice and possibly both.

    • @nagoranerides3150
      @nagoranerides3150 Год назад +2

      @@shabadoo572 His. Eddie is a bloke. He might be struggling with that but I can assure you that he has absolutely no idea what it means to be a woman and pretending he does is an insult to them. Being a woman is not a fucking suit you put on and take off when you feel like it.
      He's still very funny, though.

    • @kaylinsmith6921
      @kaylinsmith6921 Год назад +20

      @@nagoranerides3150 Ciswoman here, and I am happy to have Eddie counted among women. Because transwomen are women. Your transphobia is apparent. Don't use "fighting for women" as your excuse. You do way more harm than good, for all of us.

    • @nagoranerides3150
      @nagoranerides3150 Год назад +5

      ​@@kaylinsmith6921 Eddie can say what he likes but hes not a trans-woman. He's a bloke in a dress.
      Are *you* a bloke in a dress? Do you think Eddie has any idea what your life as a girl and a woman has been like? Of course not. He's deluding himself.
      I can understand the idea of not being happy with how you are, but going from that to deciding that you must therefore be a thing that you have never experienced being is a leap far past the bounds of reason. Why is being a woman a solution? Why doesn't he self-identify as a giraffe? The King of Belgium? What more does he know about being a woman than being those things?
      More to the point - why should I play along with his silly game?

  • @kymbartley8104
    @kymbartley8104 Год назад +12

    I love Eddie Izzard. Amazing entertainer!

  • @chrysshart
    @chrysshart Год назад +31

    I love Eddie so much. She has been such an inspiration and comfort to me all my life and I can never get enough of her comedy. Cake or Death is one of my tests for friendship!

    • @hopelessatusernames
      @hopelessatusernames Год назад +3

      He

    • @aphelion4616
      @aphelion4616 Год назад +2

      @@hopelessatusernames Nope, the OP used the proper pronoun. Have a wonderful day!!

    • @davidgraham8058
      @davidgraham8058 Год назад

      @@aphelion4616He’s a man. It’s a biological reality. You cannot change your sex.

    • @aphelion4616
      @aphelion4616 Год назад +1

      @@davidgraham8058 We are not speaking of biological sex here. We are speaking about gender identity Eddie has been out as a Trans woman her entire career. So, please, take several seats.

    • @davidgraham8058
      @davidgraham8058 Год назад

      @@aphelion4616 But pronouns refer to biological sex. They don’t have anything to do with ‘gender identity’ or ‘gender roles’. A man in a dress is still a man.
      And he hasn’t been out as a trans woman his entire career. He only decided this very recently but he actually describes himself as ‘sometimes male, sometimes female’. It’s nonsense.

  • @jlcutright0723
    @jlcutright0723 Год назад +24

    From the first time I laid eyes upon and then listened to Eddie Izzard, I have loved her. She continues to radiate positivity and humor into the world while encouraging us to think about the world we live in. What a wonderful human being!

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +1

      Hmm...You're talking about a bloke in a dress.
      Maybe you're blind?

    • @hopelessatusernames
      @hopelessatusernames Год назад +3

      Him

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 Год назад

      him he

    • @bigbromiki1
      @bigbromiki1 Год назад

      he is funny

    • @oxymoron02
      @oxymoron02 11 месяцев назад

      To the above three: Suck it up, snowflakes. Falling apart at the seams over how someone else lives their life is the definition of a fragile little online snowflake.

  • @brunojohnson4026
    @brunojohnson4026 Год назад +13

    Huge fan of Eddie Izard! Love to see the positivity and wit she brings everywhere she goes

  • @ixchelssong
    @ixchelssong Год назад +7

    Just in case anyone thinks a one man or woman show isn't for them, I once saw a live Patrick Stewart reading A Christmas Carol. It was So Good! I became lost in the story and wished I could do it every year!

  • @carolgarcia1434
    @carolgarcia1434 Год назад +7

    He or she or anything else is darling to me. So, Eddie Izzard, is by far one of my favorite people.

    • @k8giggles
      @k8giggles Год назад +3

      She requested in 2020 people use she/her pronouns when referencing her

    • @carolgarcia1434
      @carolgarcia1434 Год назад

      @@k8giggles I'm sorry, for not knowing the preference. Thank you, I am still learning... I still Love Eddie Izzard and his name is so FN Awesome!!!

  • @musicgodess80s
    @musicgodess80s Год назад +19

    She is such a gift to the world!!!!
    So full of humanity and heart !!

    • @shannascott1556
      @shannascott1556 Год назад +1

      One of the best people born into our world!

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +3

      Who on earth are you talking about...?
      There's no girl in this video!
      WTF...!?

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 Год назад

      he

  • @perrinfan
    @perrinfan Год назад +7

    Eddie, thank you for showing the rest of us how to be authentic.

  • @BrenQ99
    @BrenQ99 Год назад +3

    I have admired Eddie forever. And even more so after watching this.

  • @CrzyDemona
    @CrzyDemona Год назад +10

    I absolutely love her. Her stand up is hilarious, her acting is amazing, and she is just a beautiful force for good. ❤❤❤ Thank you for having her on the show.

    • @tonymontana6550
      @tonymontana6550 Год назад +8

      Her??? Get a grip, you're falling off the edge

    • @frontenac5083
      @frontenac5083 Год назад +6

      You meant "him", surely. Slight typo in your comment, that happens.

    • @CrzyDemona
      @CrzyDemona Год назад

      @@frontenac5083 oh this is HILARIOUS. Are you just here to dick ride Tony Montana? That's so cute. You two make such a disgusting bigoted couple. Do your parents know you ride each other like this in public? Does your job? I would be a little worried that information could somehow get back to them through the internet.
      It's a slip up, it happens, but that's what you get for being a bigot in a world that is leaving your backwards thinking kind in the dust. Go back to Twitter where you can suck on Elon all day. 🤣

    • @hopelessatusernames
      @hopelessatusernames Год назад

      Man has a penis !

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 Год назад

      him

  • @AriJeru
    @AriJeru Год назад +5

    Love Eddie Izzard, what a life she’s been leading.

  • @AliAbbasi87
    @AliAbbasi87 Год назад +8

    one of the absolute best to ever do it

  • @unseeliesidhegoddess
    @unseeliesidhegoddess Год назад +20

    It warms my heart to see so many comments using her correct pronouns. She's such a phenomenal comedian, and for so many, she's the first trans woman they knew. Such a brilliant mind and such killer fashion sense as well.

    • @GCWeber
      @GCWeber Год назад +2

      Quick correction (well, less a correction more an expansion) in case you didn't know, she specifically identifies as genderfluid (she/her pronouns). Sorry if that's irrelevant (it probably is, it's just great to see a public figure who's openly genderfluid lol)

    • @unseeliesidhegoddess
      @unseeliesidhegoddess Год назад +5

      Oh definitely! I'm just glad there aren't tons of people insisting on calling her "him" or "a bloke in a dress" like happens so often online. There's so much transphobia out there lately. I appreciate that she's gender-fluid, open about it, and doesn't take it super personally when folks are unaware of that. We need more gender-fluid, gender-non-conforming, and non-binary representation, most definitely. Eddie is such a trailblazer all around.

    • @petrify4814
      @petrify4814 Год назад +2

      As a trans man, I was genuinely worried, even in Stephen's comments, that some people would use the wrong pronouns just because it is a more recent development that she started using female pronouns and they might just mess up accidentally, but I was overwhelmed with the love and support for her in this comments section.

    • @andrewbclinton
      @andrewbclinton Год назад

      he

    • @petrify4814
      @petrify4814 Год назад +2

      @@andrewbclinton she*

  • @rainecormier2935
    @rainecormier2935 Год назад +8

    "Cake or Death?"
    "Death..? Damnit no Cake! Cake!"

    • @kaylinsmith6921
      @kaylinsmith6921 Год назад +6

      Ah ah ah! You said death first! You said death first!

    • @rainecormier2935
      @rainecormier2935 Год назад +3

      "Ahh here's some cake. You're lucky we're the church of England"

  • @middle-aged-mom-discoversstuff
    @middle-aged-mom-discoversstuff Год назад +2

    I absolutely LOVE Eddie Izzard! Been a fan since Unrepeatable and Definite Article. Had a crush for at least as long!

  • @peachesandpoets
    @peachesandpoets Год назад +18

    I'm so proud of her.

  • @shirinkester6856
    @shirinkester6856 Год назад +8

    Always love Eddie!!! ❤

  • @mogwai_
    @mogwai_ Год назад +4

    Eddie izzard is a hero of mine, I saw her perform live and she's incredible through and through

    • @mogwai_
      @mogwai_ Год назад +2

      @beaudile7730 literally says "her" in the video title

    • @lemondrop7305
      @lemondrop7305 Год назад

      @Beaudile stop caring. People say what they want 😂

  • @canderia
    @canderia Год назад +2

    One of the greatest things I've ever seen live is an Eddie Izzard stand up show.

  • @nickharvey7233
    @nickharvey7233 Год назад +1

    Bumped into Eddie on her bike (not literally) a couple months ago in Putney, London. Been a big fan since the early 90s. Had a quick chat - as I'd expected, an absolutely lovely, sincere person.

  • @fabmissb
    @fabmissb Год назад +8

    Once upon a time, HBO would give you a free weekend where you could watch unscrambled programming. And one fateful weekend in 1999, I saw “Dress to Kill,” and it changed my life. It never occurred to me that it was odd that she was a man wearing women’s clothes and makeup; she was so smart and funny that it never occurred to me that it even mattered.

  • @3CHONPRODUCTIONS
    @3CHONPRODUCTIONS Год назад +49

    Cake or death?

    • @GrandiaKnight
      @GrandiaKnight Год назад +9

      Cake please!

    • @khill8645
      @khill8645 Год назад +12

      @@GrandiaKnight We're gonna run out of cake at this rate

    • @CheMechanical
      @CheMechanical Год назад +1

      Death, please. No wait, I meant cake!

    • @SaintD382
      @SaintD382 Год назад +9

      Death...no, cake!

    • @martham9980
      @martham9980 Год назад +5

      This tray is wet…this tray is wet…

  • @thorunns.craftstudio
    @thorunns.craftstudio Год назад +2

    absolutely just adore eddie izzard!!! wish her nothing but the best!

  • @oaktjen
    @oaktjen Год назад +2

    Izzard is simply magical. Love love love

  • @kykwiltz402
    @kykwiltz402 Год назад +18

    I cannot like this enough! Eddie is one of my biggest faves!

  • @warrenfourie511
    @warrenfourie511 Год назад +3

    Saw her at RCMH around 2009. I have never laughed so hard in a theater or any kind before or since. A brilliant mind and gifted performer, but also by all accounts a kind and loving person. Great interview.

  • @tracybrown6821
    @tracybrown6821 Год назад +2

    Always loved Eddie's Work! But what a BEAUTIFUL human being 🥰🤗🥰. Inside and out!🇨🇦Loves 💞 and Shephen💞✌

  • @rachellec5703
    @rachellec5703 Год назад

    Absolutely love Eddie Izzard for decades now! Brilliant human!! Spectacular woman!

  • @mayge1234
    @mayge1234 Год назад +24

    Love her. I dont think anyone has ever made me laugh more. And she’s obviously brilliant. I hope she gets into parliament.

    • @tonymontana6550
      @tonymontana6550 Год назад

      Her??? What are you smoking?

    • @mayge1234
      @mayge1234 Год назад +4

      @@tonymontana6550 apparently not what you are seeing as you must have missed something.

    • @tonymontana6550
      @tonymontana6550 Год назад

      @@mayge1234 Stop abusing these people who have mental illness

    • @mayge1234
      @mayge1234 Год назад +4

      @@tonymontana6550 it must be difficult being so perfect. And being the authority on everything too!!!
      And I dont know about trans but Narcissistic Personality Disorder actually IS a mental illness.

    • @charlottetaylor4471
      @charlottetaylor4471 Год назад

      He didn't, thankfully. Eddie Izzard is a man. He's a narcissistic man with an ego so big his head might explode. A man who has a serious issue with women.

  • @collectmybrains
    @collectmybrains Год назад +4

    Eddie looks amazing. So glad she's still going strong. Always been a fan.

  • @rudranil06
    @rudranil06 Год назад +2

    Dress to Kill and Definite Article are one of best Stand Up shows ever! Just sheer hilarity and brilliance!

  • @clarytan
    @clarytan Год назад +2

    I love Eddie Izzard! Smart, insightful and downright hilarious! Love watching him live!

    • @user-pi5xo4og9d
      @user-pi5xo4og9d Год назад

      If you actually love someone you can use their right pronouns 🤷‍♀️ catch up, its not that hard.

  • @calleysharkus3540
    @calleysharkus3540 Год назад +5

    Dressed to kill is my favorite stand up special of all time. I loved her in the riches. She is a masterpiece.

  • @jwoodard29
    @jwoodard29 Год назад +7

    Eddie made a great performance on Hannibal.

  • @lindseymercuria3971
    @lindseymercuria3971 Год назад +1

    I love Eddie Izzard, her cedy, acting, art, and am thrilled to see her glowing and so natural.
    And damn, if I could get my lip liner that sharp ... damn.

  • @NancyWileyArt
    @NancyWileyArt Год назад +42

    I have always been a big fan of Eddie!! So happy to catch up on her recent adventures! ♥️💕

  • @TheJoker137
    @TheJoker137 Год назад +26

    Can you imagine how hilarious parliment will become with someone as witty as Eddie in the mix? Obviously she will do her job and serve her constituants but god damn, to see Eddie Izzard take on JRM. Please please please let it happen.

    • @RobS1972
      @RobS1972 Год назад +6

      You're going to have to imagine it as Eddie failed to become an MP last week

    • @TheJoker137
      @TheJoker137 Год назад +3

      @@RobS1972 She said she was going to keep running though.

    • @RobS1972
      @RobS1972 Год назад +3

      @@TheJoker137 Marathons probably

    • @clairescheepers
      @clairescheepers Год назад

      @@RobS1972 Tell us you didn't watch the whole clip without saying " I didn't watch the whole clip ;-) "