Can the surreal comedy superstar parlay comedy chops into political power? Izzard certainly wouldn't be the first standup to pivot from telling jokes to canvassing for votes From Eddie Izzard's comedy we expect the incongruous. But was anything ever odder in the 61-year-old's standup than the climax to her 2019 show Wunderbar: "My last tour before politics," she said then. I remember my mounting alarm as the jokes fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM on November 14, 2023