My wife and I were arguing when a friend came over and had to introduce us to a comedian. I said yes, which didn’t go over well, but we let the friend in and watched the cut version of Dress to Kill from HBO.
Oh My God.
Possibly saved my marriage. We laughed so hard we forgot what we were fighting about!
We ended up getting all of his shows on VHS and then on DVD. We saw him in Chicago in '06 and loved the show! It was his Stripped tour and apparently I missed that the DVD came out because we have wanted to see it again for years.
And he’s been doing that at least since 1999’s Mystery Men, when as Disco Brother Tony P, he faced Janeane Garofalo and her bowling ball of death! It was an absolutely nothing part, but he gave it panache.
I’m in love with him, he makes me laugh more than any other person. I have tickets to see him on 11th May, which will be the 6th time, I think. My highlight is probably a couple of tours ago - we saw him at Wembley Arena, and he had a sign-language interpreter with him. He started to riff with her and I laughed till I cried and my stomach ached.
Plus, he’s really really hot. He looks better in a skirt than pretty much any man I could think of, and most women. I find him fascinating as a person, too, from what is publicly known. Can’t remember the name of the documentary he did a couple of years ago, and I’m way too lazy to google on this damn iPad, but it was really interesting. His ambition and drive were striking, I wonder what he’s like to be around!
Don’t touch my boyfriend, Eddie Izzard. We’re totally in love, except he doesn’t know I exist.
I know several someones that are cd. I always say, “Oh, are you an Eddie Izzard fan?” When they occasionally go, “Who?” I supply videos and books.
I saw him once in Las Vegas with my DAD, who laughed his ass off.
I lifted a quote from him. He was getting heckled, “ooh Eddie where’s your dress?” His response: I am a transvestite. I don’t have to dress like one to prove it.
I expect that the cross-dressing started early in his career, before he was known and when he needed some sort of gimmick to stand out. It’s probably hung on through tradition, but he doesn’t need it any more. My first exposure to him was an audio-only track, so I had no idea he was wearing a dress, and he was still absolutely hilarious.
My understanding is that he stays pretty much in male-normative clothing when performing or in public nowadays, but that it is not a show gimmick, and Eddie just likes wearing women’s clothes and makeup (and not as a sexual fetish, either).
