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Eddie Izzard STRIPPED!

The Crossdressing King Of Comedy Is ON TOUR!

One of the world’s most well known crossdressers, British actor and comedian Eddie Izzard is finally ‘hitting the road’ on a huge extended 4 month tour this summer across the U.S. entitled STRIPPED!

If you’ve never seen Eddie live, this might be your big chance to do so. He is Amazing! Check out his tour dates here. But… if you expect to see Eddie in full crossdressing mode, his femme side is temporarily back in the closet. With the success of 'The Riches', his FX Network television show in full swing, Mr. Izzard is currently bearded and looking more macho than his usual self. On the series, his character Wayne Molloy, is a bullshitting, upbeat antihero with an American accent. After stealing a dead man's identity and moving his family into the corpse's Louisiana mansion, their new motto is “The American Dream - we're going to steal it”. Or, as it says on the recently released Season One DVD cover, “It's a Wonderful Lie”.

As Quoted in The Sunday London Times, Eddie commented: “For years journalists had been asking me, what role are you looking for? And I never knew the answer. But I do now,” he says. “It was that one.”

A few years back I got to meet with Eddie and we talked on end about being transgendered. His views on crossdressing are plain and simple, and down to earth:

"I've always known that I was a transvestite. I fancy girls but I'm a wannabe lesbian. But I'm quite happy being a guy too. I don't do a big mental shift if I'm throwing on a dress. It's just a side of my sexuality, a side of my personality, a side of myself - and it's complicated. It's there all the time. I call it girl mode and boy mode. Like a superhero - like the Human Torch who can go, 'Flame on', and then he's in flames and then he goes 'Flame off', and he's not. In the same way, I can do 'Girl on' and 'Boy on'."

In a recent interview for the London Telegraph, Eddie commented that he was very worried that being a crossdresser would harm his chances for success in the United States.

"I was very worried. I played it with a softly-softly approach because I arrived in America wearing a dress and then I took it away. But when we pitched the idea of The Riches, the people at the network seemed to think it didn't matter. Perhaps it's slightly easier because I'm a straight transvestite. Everyone goes, 'You're such a bloke, for God's sake. What is this girly bit about?'

Being English, I noticed when I first came to America that if I was wearing a dress and asked for a cup of tea, people would say 'OK' and give me a cup, whereas if I came in apologizing for being a transvestite and asking timidly for a cup of tea, they'd say 'No'.

If you can be funny and offhand about it, then people tend to flow with you. I use comedy and everyday chit-chat to undermine the whoa-ness of it. I just say, 'Yes, I wear a dress, everybody wants to be a transvestite these days!"

There’s very few of us in the TG umbrella more forthright than Eddie Izzard, especially when it comes to breaking the ice in public while wearing a dress. So if you can, make his show a must see this year, and catch Eddie sans makeup and skirt. It will be an evening well spent!

You can also read more of an interview I did with Eddie right HERE!