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Eddie Izzard is touring this season, bringing his rambling monologues from the small screen role on "The Riches" to theaters across the country.
Izzard is a British television, film and stage actor. He had an interest in comedy at a very early age - after his mothers death, he was drawn to the works of Monty Python, Steve Martin and Richard Pryor, and he began performing stand-up shows after being kicked out of the University of Sheffield.
The comedian spent most of the 1980s working as a street performer, until 1987 when he started trying his luck at The Comedy Store. He gained more fame in the early 1990s, and he won a British Comedy Award for his standup work. He traveled England and was a success - he gained fame in the U.S. after his show "Dress to Kill" was shown on HBO in early 2000. He toured the U.S., and he scored two Emmy Award nominations.
His current television show, "The Riches," is a hit on the FX network with fellow Brit Minnie Driver. Izzard plays Wayne Malloy, the leader of a family that assumed the identity of a rich family that died in a car crash.
In addition to his stand-up and television, Izzard also has performed in "The Cryptogram" and "Edward II" in London, as well as "Lenny" and "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg." He scored a role in the film "Across the Universe," and was also featured in "Oceans Twelve" and "Oceans 13."
Izzard is known for his stream-of-consciousness variety of comedy. He doesnt work from a script, but instead often interrupts himself with other characters, new jokes, and big leaps in the subject matter. The funnyman is known for his ability to mimic and mime. Some of his voices included God, John F. Kennedy, Sean Connery and James Mason.
Izzard isnt known as a mean-spirited comic, as so many are. He looks to the creative possibilities to observing absurd situations in real time, and he turns attention to himself and his personality.
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