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 Eddie Izzard
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Some great modern comedy about ancient subjects.
Izzard was born in Aden, Yemen, and is the youngest son of Harold John and Dorothy Ella Izzard, an English couple. In 1962, shortly before the Aden Emergency, the Izzards moved to Northern Ireland. He lived in Bangor, County Down until 1967, when the Northern Irish political situation worsened, and the family moved to Skewen, Wales, and then Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, where he studied at Eastbourne College. His mother died of cancer in March of 1968, which had a tremendous effect on the young Izzard.
Izzard found some degree of solace in comedy after the death of his mother. He drew particular comfort from the works of Monty Python, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, and the early Benny Hill. He began to toy with stand-up at the University of Sheffield and, after being ingloriously kicked off his accountancy degree course, he took his act into the streets. Having spent a great deal of the 1980s working as a street performer in Europe and the United States, Izzard moved his act into the stand-up comedy venues of Britain, first appearing at The Comedy Store in London in 1987. He refined his material throughout the '80s, and in the early '90s he finally began earning some measure of recognition, though not in the guise in which he would later become famous (i.e. performing in women's clothing).
He has often expressed his strong admiration for the late comedian Bill Hicks. He has also expressed interest in fatherhood, though marriage is "a definite maybe."
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