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Eddie Izzard interview - one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read

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SmugglersHaunt · 26/04/2023 18:11

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/26/suzy-eddie-izzard-dickens-great-expectations-hamlet

Uses she/her throughout, ‘one woman show’ etc etc - calling anyone who disagrees that TWAW ‘fascists’.

Every time I think I’m inured to this rubbish I read or see something that makes me despair. What a pathetic, preening liar he is.

‘I’m going for it like crazy’: Eddie Izzard on her one-woman, 19-role Great Expectations

After 30 years, the standup star is now finally winning acting plaudits, for a ‘tour de force’ take on Dickens with sharper punchlines – and Hamlet is next

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/26/suzy-eddie-izzard-dickens-great-expectations-hamlet

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AgathaX · 26/04/2023 19:43

Fuck, just when I think he can't get any more deluded and, frankly, revolting, he actually goes and bloody manages it.

Twat.

Keepthetowel · 26/04/2023 19:35

I don’t click on Guardian links, I don’t want to give them the traffic

bringbacktheladiesloos · 26/04/2023 19:31

At the end of the interview he says he'll feel they've won once trans is basically boring. When people don't bat an eyelid. BUT he already had that.

None of us gave a fig when he said ' this isn't a woman's dress, it's my dress', or when he wore heels and lipstick. It was bloody fine. We all kind of forgot about it and liked his candour.

However, insisting on being recognised AS a woman is different altogether.
It feels like being trans wasn't getting him quite enough attention. He knows that insisting on the pronouns whenever he feels in girl mode gets him attention.
Trans women especially don't want to go unnoticed. The attentionseekingness of it all absolutely reeks.

Pink phone. Blood red claws and lips. Very few actual women walk around looking like this. It's definitely for attention when a man does it.

Makes me puke.

Littlesprouts · 26/04/2023 19:26

I couldn't finish reading that. It was if the journo was actually trying to shoehorn in as many extra female pronouns as possible.

For Izzard to dive straight into calling anyone not pandering to it all fascist and right wing is the trans version of the script. Offensive and stupid.

NotRightNowNo · 26/04/2023 19:24

Entitled and deluded. What an arse. I despair of the Gruniad. They are printing lies and taking their readers for fools and propogating misogyny

Dedodee · 26/04/2023 19:18

If you knew Suzy, like I know Suzy.
Oh, oh, oh what a ?

AnythingToSay · 26/04/2023 19:15

One woman show... 🙄

Where's the woman?

Clymene · 26/04/2023 19:14

This is hilarious:

Article: What does the artist formerly known as Eddie Izzardd*, who recently announced she was adding “Suzy” to her name, wish to be called in print? “I think stay with ‘Eddie’ because that’s my public name,” she says when we meet at her manager’s office in London. “And I am gender-fluid. I don’t want to lose Eddie. What I don’t want is ‘Suzy Eddie’.

Photo credit: Suzy Eddie Izzard GrinGrinGrinGrin

JaffaCake70 · 26/04/2023 19:14

PinkFootstool · 26/04/2023 18:43

Have you seen the video ads for that show? Clips of it in practice basically - and absolutely excruciatingly dreadful.

Such a shame, I loved the 90's stand up shows. "Are you happy with your wash" had me howling.

Death Star Canteen.. Hilarious 😂

SmugglersHaunt · 26/04/2023 19:11

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WickedSerious · 26/04/2023 19:00

Could he be any more ridiculous?

Ohyoudodoyou · 26/04/2023 18:49

MistyGreenAndBlue · 26/04/2023 18:42

I read up to "fear of literature" and gave up 😂
What a load of old cock!

It's a wonder he hasn't done a big documentary on it, Storyville like.
Standing outside libraries and breaking into cold sweats, palpitations at the sight of a Waterstones sort of thing.
A breakout and migraine at the Sunday Times best sellers list.

JellySaurus · 26/04/2023 18:46

It's not just that he's a prat, as that the Guardian's an even bigger prat for pandering to him.

Ohyoudodoyou · 26/04/2023 18:46

This is madness, the absolute bullshitteryof the man. I've never liked him, decades ago I had a visceral reaction to him. Lots of women I knew used to say they found him attractive. Never found him funny either.
Think it's safe to say I'd rather gouge my own eyes out than see this!

PinkFootstool · 26/04/2023 18:43

Have you seen the video ads for that show? Clips of it in practice basically - and absolutely excruciatingly dreadful.

Such a shame, I loved the 90's stand up shows. "Are you happy with your wash" had me howling.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 26/04/2023 18:42

I read up to "fear of literature" and gave up 😂
What a load of old cock!

ZuttZeVootEeeVo · 26/04/2023 18:34

The Suzy news broke last month but Izzard adopted the name nearly a year ago, and will soon have it added to her passport. For now, she’s been using it on Deliveroo.

Lol

'I'm Suzy Eddie Izzard:' Legendary Comedian Announces New Name

She's wanted to be Suzy since the age of 10.

https://www.out.com/celebs/suzy-eddie-izzard

bellac11 · 26/04/2023 18:32

I saw the headline and didnt go any further. Offensive.

Wishitsnows · 26/04/2023 18:32

The picture looks like Gordon Ramsey has lost a lot of weight.

nilsmousehammer · 26/04/2023 18:28

That pose in the picture is really rather unfortunate.

HermioneKipper · 26/04/2023 18:15

I can’t bear him.

Quelle surprise the guardian are lapping it up

Flowerly · 26/04/2023 18:12

Every time I think I’m inured to this rubbish I read or see something that makes me despair. What a pathetic, preening liar he is.

With you all the way. The Grauniad love this kind of male-woman though don't they?