Show 306 - *Eddie Izzard - LIVE*
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Eddie Izzard is one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time, as well as being a gifted actor, marathon runner and campaigner... but there's at least one other major ambition still burning: to get elected to the House of Commons. In this hilarious, emotional and deeply personal interview, Eddie talks about everything from the death of loved ones to serving on Labour's NEC in the Corbyn years. Possessed with amazing stamina and drive, Eddie plans to change Britain for the better by getting elected in 2024. Plus it wouldn't be an interview with Eddie Izzard without some exceptional routines on all manner of subjects including Jesus, Abraham Lincoln and fat tigers.
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20 March: Krishnan Guru-Murthy
3 April: Ruth Davidson
17 April: Jess Phillips
22 May: David Blunkett
5 June: Philip Hammond
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Political Party. Today's guest is Eddie Ezzard, one of the greatest |
| 0:14.6 | stand-up comedians of all time and aspiring MP before I come on to this fascinating, amazing, |
| 0:20.9 | hilarious interview. I can announce some future guests. Quite a few actually, so the show |
| 0:26.1 | is now booked until mid-June and the next five guests. My God, what an amazing, you know what, |
| 0:32.4 | obviously each individual will be amazing. But when I just think about this as a run, it's so |
| 0:37.0 | exciting because people from different political parties, different areas of politics, different |
| 0:41.8 | stages of career. So this is like, if you could pick the best five guests you could have to have |
| 0:47.3 | all these different perspectives. I don't think you could book this better. So here we go. |
| 0:51.4 | Monday the 20th of March, my guest is Christian and Guru Murthy from Channel 4 News, one of the most |
| 0:56.8 | gifted news broadcasters in this country. And someone just, oh, I mean, it's still so young, but with |
| 1:03.1 | years and years of experience of covering news and politics, live news, election nights, that will |
| 1:08.6 | be incredible. And I very rarely see Christian and interviewed. So that is a real gem. On Monday the |
| 1:14.5 | 3rd of April, again, talk about a rare appearance. Ruth Davidson, the former leader of the Scottish |
| 1:19.2 | Conservatives is in London very rare to get an interview with Ruth outside of Scotland, |
| 1:24.8 | very rare to get her live. That will be amazing. She's now in the Lords, but obviously politics in |
| 1:29.4 | Scotland is changing so quickly with the resignation of Nicholas Sturgeon and will have just |
| 1:34.7 | have had announced the new leader of the SMP and the new First Minister of Scotland. So that will be |
| 1:39.6 | a phenomenal person to be talking to. Obviously Ruth went up against Nicholas Sturgeon and in a way |
| 1:44.7 | personally revived the Conservatives in Scotland in the period that she was leading them. So that will |
| 1:50.7 | be, I mean, that is like pure chance of that timing. On Monday the 17th of April, I guess we'll |
| 1:56.4 | be Jess Phillips. I mean, my god, an absolute political mega star, always hilarious, always brilliant. |
| 2:04.2 | Whenever Jess is on the show, it always one of the funniest nights, that will be magnificent. |
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