SUZY EDDIE IZZARD Did Sword Fighting In London

Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers

Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers

Personal Journals, Comedy Interviews, Film Interviews, Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week on the pod, Suzy Eddie Izzard joins Seth and Josh! She talks all about growing up in Aden, moving to Northern Ireland at a young age, attending boarding school as a child and what visits home were like, dropping out of university, building Edinburgh Fringe sketch shows, learning through London street performing and sword-fighting, plus her love of Monty Python. Plus, Suzy also chats about her incredibly impressive world tour of HAMLET! Support our sponsors: OlipopGet a free can of OLIPOP:Buy any 2 cans of Olipop in store, and we'll pay you back for oneWorks on any flavor, any retailer go to https://drinkolipop.com/TRIPSOLIPOP is sold online (drinkolipop.com + Amazon) and available in the soda aisle and with the chilled beverages at thousands of retailers nationwide, including Walmart and Target.ShiptDownload the app or order now at https://shipt.comDeleteMeGet 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://joindeleteme.com/ TRIPS and use promo code TRIPS at checkout. WildGrainWildgrain is offering our listeners $30 off your first box - PLUS free Croissants for life - when you go to https://Wildgrain.com/TRIPS to start your subscription today.Marley SpoonVisit https://marleySpoon.com/offer/trips for up to 25 FREE meals! That’s right… up to 25 FREE meals with Marley Spoon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Baji!
0:00.9	Hey, Sufi.
0:02.2	We got to see each other last week, which is so nice.
0:04.9	Very briefly.
0:06.0	Very briefly.
0:06.7	I saw you.
0:07.3	We literally basically just saw each other for the course of a podcast.
0:10.5	Yeah.
0:11.1	A little bit, you know, pregame.
0:14.4	Little green room, little green room action.
0:16.3	Yeah.
0:17.7	And a lot of fun.
0:19.1	I had a great time.
0:19.9	Yeah.
0:26.5	For anyone who is excited to listen to that, we interviewed McKenzie.
0:27.4	Yeah.
0:38.4	It was, I mean, I feel like the festival itself, which I love doing, that kind of got hit by that storm that hit the sort of East Coast.
0:43.0	There were a lot of grand plans for the sort of guests we might have.
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:49.8	And McKenzie, to her credit, suggested she's like, well, I could step in and I have some insights. Oh, I don't know if I knew that, which is great, because I felt a little like we'd put her on the spot.
1:12.1	So I'm glad that she actually had some enthusiasm for it. Yeah, I will say in terms of being put on the spot, which she thought she might be on this podcast someday, but she didn't think it would be a live recording with like, you know, 100 plus people watching us in a ballroom. So in the end, she kind of got burned super hard.
1:12.5	Yeah.
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