Multilingual comedian Eddie Izzard on making people laugh in another language,human sacrifice, and why comedy will never be the same againIt’s ironic that when I meet Eddie Izzard to talk to him about his linguistic skills, and he is struggling to string a sentence together.
He is “frazzled” after flying in the night before from the US. His sentences crescendo,fizzle out, and pick up again in a completely different space. Izzard struggles to reply directly to questions - arriving at answers via a stream of references and stories that dip into the surreal, or reach back through history,touch on the personal and, very often, and the political. But he always answers thoughtfully. He bounces between conversation and performance,and slips into sketches in French and German, undeterred by the fact I can’t understand anything he is saying.
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Source: theguardian.com