Eddie (Suzy) Izzard & Josh in London!

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Education, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.5 • 905 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

One of the most successful comedy performers on the planet, Eddie Izzard (who now goes by Suzy) has spent more than thirty years touring groundbreaking shows at sold-out venues like the Hollywood Bowl, Madison Square Garden, the Sydney Opera House, London's O2 Arena and Radio City Music Hall. They've won two Emmys, performed stand-up specials in multiple languages, run dozens of marathons for charity, and even stood for parliament and for the mayoralty of London. In the US, they starred in television shows like The Riches, United States of Tara and Hannibal. Their film roles include Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen and Valkyrie. Izzard was on Uncomfortable Conversations briefly in 2021, in the persona of Eddie. Now living full-time as Suzy - and on the eve of a global tour of a one-person production of Hamlet(!) and a new stand-up special - it's time for Szeps and Izzard to finally connect in the flesh. Uncomfortable Conversations is chuffed to be a new Spotify Partner show, and even more grateful to the amazing folks at Spotify for welcoming us to their schmancy studios in London, where Izzard - recovering from a leg injury - hobbled in to discuss humour, wisdom, passion, gender, performativity and ambition. Tickets to Izzard's Sydney shows are available here [https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/theatre/izzard-hamlet]. Our thanks again to Spotify and the team at the Sydney Opera House for making this conversation possible.

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0:00.0	Gahey humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. And boy, is this an entertaining
0:09.7	chat with one of the biggest British comedy stars in the world. Eddie Isard, who now goes by
0:15.6	Susie Eddie Isard, has been doing major stand-up specials smash hits all over the globe for more than 30 years.
0:24.0	On television, they've starred in American television shows like The Riches, the United States of Tara,
0:29.2	Hannibal. Their film credits include Oceans 12, Oceans 13, Valkyrie.
0:34.5	They've won two Emmy Awards for the stand-up special Dress to Kill and all sorts of
0:39.9	other incredible things in a very successful life, like running 43 marathons in 51 days and then
0:49.0	27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa in honor of Nelson Mandela raising money for charity, over a million
0:55.5	pounds for charity in that case.
0:57.5	They've performed stand-up in a variety of different languages in Arabic, in French, in German,
1:03.2	in Russian, in Spanish, as well as in English.
1:06.2	They're a Labour Party activist, a long-time Labor supporter, and actually stood for
1:10.4	Parliament and ran for the London mayoral election and has ideas about the possibility of going back into politics in the future as well.
1:18.3	Their latest project, a one-man adaptation of Hamlet, which will be touring Australia after extended runs in New York and Chicago and London.
1:27.6	I was recently in London,
1:29.4	so I had the pleasure of sitting down with the one and only Susie Eddie Isard.
1:41.1	What happened to your leg?
1:42.6	You came hobbling up here like a poor...
1:44.3	I bont my leg.
1:46.4	No, I wanged my leg.
1:48.0	I really did wang.
1:49.2	Do you think of any other synonyms?
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