The world of English comedian Eddie Izzard is, how shall we say, different. It’s a world where real men dress like real women. Izzard is a transvestite. It’s a world where practical ideas rule: why shoot clay pigeons while they are in the air, Izzard wants to know. “They’re much easier to hit once they fall to the ground.”
Izzard is a comedy phenomenon. Just ten years ago he was doing 20 minute sets at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Today he regularly sells out theatres in London and New York, has appeared in films and has an HBO special running, a considerable achievement for a comic whose jokes have no punch-lines and whose main riff is about the difference between being an executive transvestite and a military transvestite.
We’re having a well-rounded discussion with Eddie Izzard about the meaning of life and the perfect color of nail polish to wear while living it.
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)
Guests:
English comedian Eddie Izzard.