Eddie Izzard was the first comedian I ever knew about. I watched... I think it was Circle or Glorious, when I was 6yrs old, and he's had a place in my heart ever since. I love him in every drama/comedy I've seen him in from Live At The Ambassador's to Treasure Island....
I truly Take off my hat to you , good sir Izzard, you are a remarkable human being who has over come an adverse ,divided , world and United them in laughter and humility. Thank you..
Eddie, just do more recorded stuff for us thanks! RU-vid guys need to convince you to put all your stuff on the web. I appreciate the work you put into making your genius shows, English is good enough, please use your energy to do more shows in English, as many as possible. Movies and TV stuff also. Release!
Eddie is a study in revelatory courage and tenacity. I “share” his interviews to my email sometimes to study what he says more closely. His sexual proclivity is irrelevant to me. It’s his constant exploration of the human condition and his willingness to discuss it publicly that is so rare. We can employ his type of self- awareness if we’re open to challenge ourselves to become our best selves❣️
Yay! Couldn`t agree more. I`ve been promoting his mayoral campaign, which hasn`t actually started yet, for a while. I`m not from London, don`t live in London, don`t even live in the UK now. But yeah, EDDIE for mayor! Prime Minister even!
Eddie is brilliant, so funny and polite. Just saw him at USC last Friday. Caught his show at Shoreline this year and a few other appearances plus Day in the Death of Joe Egg in NYC. He's simply amazing.
Eddie is so right about casting/reviewing. No one thought Jack Nicholson could be a straight actor for some time and even now he is still typecasted in "manic" roles, despite proving critics wrong time and time again. Personally, I think an actor needs a refined and defined comic edge to really sell a dramatic role. No one is 100% serious about everything all the time.
"Bastard Son of Monty Python" should be the title of his autobiography.... (and as I understand it, the Pythons actually do have a pretty high opinion of him)
You have an inquisitive mind and you have a talent for argumentation, so I'm confident that with the right direction and drive you will continue to grow smarter. I wish you the best of luck.
Such a great comedian, I really love his shows :) I love his style and personality xD I hope that some day he'll make some show in italian :D He is right about barriers breaking, I learnt english here on the internet, and I love british and american comedy, and I think that it's great to be able to understand the language of so many people :)
I am a woman who has had a few transvestite lovers. It's not that difficult and peoples sexual choices are personal, interesting but none of us have a right to judge. E. I. is intelligent and very funny. He draws us all together and what else can we ask for from anyone performing publicly?
Oh my god, just listening to him talk! :D Those trains of thoughts. He's even worse and better like this, just talking and getting on these random tangents. It's like a roller coaster of ideas. Oooh, the classroom one is a really good one! Seriously, because it's true, all those "historical" people were just people, just like anybody else. And often you do know people like them from your own life. Or at least from TV.
Such a great interview. Thank you so much for posting it! He is so right on about trying to hard and and getting over the humiliation and shame when learning something new. Really great stuff. Had to link it to him on twitter and post a comment here. Thanks again.
What's he talking about?? He played Dr. Hattarras, a professor on United States of Tara with Toni Collette all through season 3. Was amazing. Love his acting as much as his comedy.
I saw you in the Munsters pilot for the TV series Mockingbird Lane I think is what it was called you were hilarious , i was so hoping it was going to take off unfortunately it didn't which sucks we've seen you in dramas and of course your stand up and have thoroughly enjoyed most everything you've done keep it up you're fun to watch
3) The only advice I can give, based on my own life experience, is to try to understand the predetermination of your own perception. By understanding the inherent bias in your own thinking (we all have this) you are able to understand the world better, because you begin to see some of the ways in which you filter the external environment and the ways in which your perception is but a colored vision of an objective reality. This was one of the reasons I recommended the social psychology book.
2) A) Our genetics and B) our epigenetics (the effect of environmental stimuli on the expression of certain genes as we go through life, specifically during the formative years before we reach the age of 24). The often used counter argument (which, admittedly, is something of a platitude) is: 'when did you did you decide do be a heterosexual?'. The point therein is that such aspects of our personality and personal preferences are expressions of deep-rooted constructs that make up our 'self'.
In my experience of living in Tours a couple of years back, my two French housemates - in their early 20s - were watching Friends and The X-Files dubbed into French, but to be fair that was only a sample size of two. In any case it is very encouraging to hear that a preference for subtitles might be on the rise.
Just guessing, but it may be because of the rise of social media and possibly also English music (although I assume that's not so much the case as that was available for quite some time now). Anyway, something that breaks the sociocultural barrier but also something that diminishes the desire to protect the language (which I'm noticing a lot here in the Netherlands. People don't really care about the language or the value it holds (although I think that's partially because of our culture and history, that being of trade and having to deal with bigger nations around us). Soo.. that may not be the case in France. - edit -To put a bit of a disclaimer on this, there's obviously a great good in being able to understand one another it's just that I love all languages, including my own and I think I'm just a bit disappointed with it being regarded as being less than it is.
And I think he's absolutely right about language. Being a language nerd, I know very well that my biggest problem with learning a new language is always simply letting go of the anxiety over mistakes. I really suck at it so far but at least I know what to fix... I HAVE actually considered trying alcohol but I'm kind of nervous about that because I don't really drink much at all and I don't know how it'd affect me.
Wow, I couldn't agree more about the universality of humour. I do think there are tendencies that differ from culture to culture, but there's always something unifying underneath it all. And I've found that people tend to be the same in every country, too: you can find the same types everywhere. There are only superficial differencies which you notice first but which fade away once you get to know the culture better.
Alright, fair enough. My apologies for not being sufficiently clear and succinct in answering your question. I think the reason why I did not answer the 'why?' aspect of your question as to Eddie's cross-dressing is because it could be seen as asking 'why are you straight?' (assuming you are). Such aspects of our sexuality are not, as some would have us belief, 'lifestyle choices' or choices of any other order. They result from the way your brain works, which could be seen as the result of
@mymovienerd I myself found it really interesting, and dude, for a start he has a wife, and all the professional interviewers had to start somewhere. This is only his second interview (as far as I know) and considering he's got Eddy here AND the Lonely Islands under his belt, he's not doing to bad lol.
Very interesting how he now wants to make shows in all these dif languages. Also the last min where he mentions how french people are now convering from dub to sub is really great news. Should happen in moreeuropean countries, namely Germany and Italy.
5) You question why can be answered from a natural or a normative perspective. The natural approach is that cross-dressing is the result of someone's genetic and epi-genetic make-up (where make-up is a fitting choice of words..), which puts the behavior beyond the individuals realm of conscious choice and therefore responsibility. From a normative stance point we can say that cross-dressing is only 'abnormal' because of the current norms held in society. Such norms may be the result of
The documentary about Eddie Izzard is called "Believe". It's a great insight into how driven he is. Kind of like "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop", but with more Englishness and crossdressing.
Don't mean to nitpick - but Eddie was in Ocean's 12 & 13, NOT in Ocean's Eleven. Otherwise, fantastic interview, got to admire those who are self-starters on questions!
8) Some resources which I found useful in shaping my thinking: -Dr Miles Hewstone (2012) 'An Introduction to Social Psychology' - Douglas Walton (2005) 'Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation (Critical Reasoning and Argumentation)' -Athene's Theory of Everything (on YT) +Contains many more references
At 45:00, she seems to be trying VERY hard to put Eddie into a particular category. Defining him in a particular way. Deciding for herself that he belongs in THAT pigeonhole and not another one. Which is the exact opposite of what he had just said to her. Eddie defies being placed in a hole. He doesn't fit within whatever category you try to put him in. While she seems to be happy to talk to him, she also seems to really be struggling within her own mind to "define" him in such a way that makes sense to herself. Which Eddie had JUST SAID doesn't work when people try to nail him down to one category or another. Maybe it's my contrary nature, but I find her mental struggles at that point to be extremely funny...
+KOakaKO So many of today's kiddies need to keep people in their respective lanes. Hence "Gay" has been turned into LGBTQA....and growing. First they want to know how you identify before they know how to interact with you. No wonder so many comedians have all sworn off playing gigs at Colleges.
***** - Yeah, I agree. The more kids supposedly "learn" at most colleges today, the more they seem to pull back into ignorant definitions - deciding for some reason that THEY are able to specifically explain things that they just don't know anything about. Then again, the 'arrogant sophomore' phenomenon has been a fact of life for as long as there have been colleges. I guess it's just a part of human nature. Students, in my opinion, tend not to realize how much they really DON'T know about the world until their 3rd year...
I can see why you'd say that. In a general sense I believe that there is more strength in trying to understand someone else's point of view, rather than projecting our own. As a rule of thumb, in my book at least, interest in others is generally better than asking other to be interested in you, either directly or implicitly. Explaining something is difficult to understand ('(...) I still find myself going "What the hell!?"') can, because of its wording, be construed for a normative judgement,
3) Where our 'self' is a momentary expression of our (sub)conscious values and beliefs, that reach well beyond our conscious mind. In its simplest form I would answer your question of 'why is he a transvestite?' by saying: because it expresses the person he feels he naturally is and because he is brave enough to align his outward actions with being his intuitively felt 'self'. Being yourself is never easy, and those who have the strength to align their natural and social persona, in my opinion
Eddie is briliant. The only thing I didn't like about this interview is that he's done his show in french, this past summer, in Montral. Had I konwned, I would have gone ('cuz my girlfriend can't follow him in english). That made me mad to learn that. :O))
But anyway, yeah, languages aren't as hard as they seem. Often the problem is how you try to learn them. We're naturally inclined to communicate and we should try and learn languages as naturally as possible: the best way is by talking and hearing others talk. Watching movies and TV with subtitles is actually a decent start. The point is to trick your brain into realizing that this is something that it actually wants to learn. Make it hear the language in different contexts so it'll get curious.
4) Deserve our respect. All the more when their persona does not overlap with society's current 'norm' or range of acceptable behavior around the societal average (which is what norms essentially are). I realize that last bit is more of a normative statement than a clear answer towards understanding why, I hope you'll find it useful nonetheless. Does that answer your question or at least provide you with a useful insight into my perspective on how the situation could be seen? In summary,
Mandarin is... an interesting language. There are some really hard bits like the pronunciation and the writing (though for the writing my suggestion is: just start with the super easy ones and learn one per day and it'll be much easier than you think) but it's also in other ways a really easy language. You'd be surprised. The grammar is very simple and the words are short. The actually tricky parts are when you get to the stylistics but by then you should already speak it pretty well.
Neuro-chemically this response is the same as being physically threatened. It impedes rational thought and disallows us to see the bigger picture, be empathic or think objectively: i.e. it creates tunnel vision. I would invite you to read up on some social psychology and try to apply to proven ways for improving decision-making. These include: -Trying your best to argue for the opposite point of view; -Asking someone who is competent in this field; -Reframing the question.
That depends on what "here" is. If "here" is the conversation I started with my comment, then the fact that cross-dressing does nothing for me and does something for Eddie is not only relevant, it's of the essence. See, if you tell me to just have empathy, I can act like I do, but even if I want to show true empathy I won't be able to truly until I actually understand.
6) Insufficient understanding of the neuro-physiological underpinnings of sexual preferences or social normative relics, left within our society through religious norms and values that formed an important source, wanted or not, for society's thinking about 'right vs wrong' over the past few millennia. With that, we can see that we have an opportunity here to expand both our personal thinking and society's development, by enhancing our level of tolerance towards society's outliers.
I find it interesting that folks in US speak in a very vague manner. Lots of "like", "thing", "stuff", "you know", "whatever", "kind of". And these are google artists and engineers, maybe that is their secret weapon
i liked your comment and caught myself being surprised at your nickname. this is because of horrible prejudice on my part and i swear i'll try to never be surprised at ANYTHING EVER AGAIN
I saw BELIEVE & it made me sad for him though. his "desperation for love" and "proving to his mother" - just made me feel like he'll always be single, & never be loved or accepted because he'd hold someone back in fear of rejection & therefore cause rejection (unfortunately) as a result...
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