Eddie Izzard is the comedy & movie legend from Bexhill. Here he talks bi-lingual swears, bees, badgers & the Hollywood Bowl with Victoria Nangle before heading off to the outdoor comedy festival Laughs In The Park. Phew!
Victoria Nangle: Hello Eddie. Are you in France at the moment?
Eddie Izzard: I am, I’m in Paris‚ someone’s got to be. I’m doing my gigs in France, did you know that?
VN: I did because I saw that you’re going to be doing your gigs in English and in French in Montreal…
EI: Yes, there’s going to be one day where I’m going to start off with the English show‚ I think its eight o’clock the English show and then ten o’clock doing the French show.
VN: Do you ever flit between the two and sometimes there’s an English catchphrase that comes out in a French show?
EI: No, sometimes people come up with this word ‘Frainglais’ but I wanna just stay off that because it sounds like you just can’t do it. I’ve been quite persistent in getting French for everything.
VN: Not even by accident?
EI: Oh, well that will be the first time, but we will see… I probably will be more confused in the English, actually I don’t know. I’ve talked English for so long that, like when I’m talking to you now, I don’t sort of have a problem where I go “ooh‚ how do you say ‚’cat’?”. Sometimes you do forget the words, forget the word for something, but I have said ‘abso-f***ing-lument’, and the French just love that! [laughs] That’s just it‚ ‘abso-f***ing-lument’. It’s the only power, if you’ve got ‘f***ing’ in the middle of a French word they dig it a whole bunch. Read the rest of this article »
