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February 8, 2009
Eddie Izzard: Hollywood to House of Commons?
Having worked in stand-up, TV, theatre and films, the "transvestite with a career" comedian is considering turning to politics

Eddie Izzard sits astride a stool at the back of the Apple store on Regent Street, London. In front of him is a crowd of eager fans who have queued for hours for this iPod Q&A session, chaired by the compere of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Simon Amstell, and they are pushing him on the widest range of topics — from the second world war through the nature of rebellion to the timing of any possible economic turnaround.

Izzard seems unfazed by the German kid who hands him photos of family members in uniform, or by advice on investing in Anglo American, the mining conglomerate, until a girl asks him if hed prefer a screw-off head or teapot arms. He opts for the head, and she warns him people would run away with it, which he complains changes the question just a little, and then asks for a different questioner. He delivers his replies so affably and honestly — instead of searching for old semi-relevant routines to get quick laughs — that hes able to make the low quality of 1980s motorway service stations as casually acceptable as his argument that capitalism needs complete restructuring. Im a creativist, he tells the crowd. I want money so I can create things. I think thats always been the way. Thats what global trade has been about for thousands of years. Somewhere, the capitalists came along and wanted to create things just to make money. Then they started that entire bookmaker dealing that nobody understands. So no, I wouldnt say Im a capitalist.

These are difficult times, so maybe its only to be expected that worried people would offer up their woes to Izzard rather than ask him to repeat the old Death Star Canteen routine. He handles them well, but like a serious-minded entertainer, rather than a meet-the-people politico handling a town-hall meeting. Yet that, the politico, is the direction in which hes heading. After conquering street performing, stand-up, the stage, television and now the big screen, with a hefty role alongside Tom Cruise in Valkyrie, hes turning his attention to democracy.

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