And I know the main routes, the freeways that you would say, the interstate highways of my comedy. IZZARD: I would say that but only in a conversational way. And you're telling me that you walk on stage and you're only - you're not quite sure what you're going to say? So you have, like I said, been touring the world, doing your comedy for years. SAGAL: Really? So, I mean, I'm always amazed to hear this. It sort of comes out - most of it comes out on stage, actually. IZZARD: I sit down with a computer and it just churns out stuff for me. SAGAL: Really? So is that how you develop your comedy, with that kind of scientific rigor? There's a certain mathematical equation that goes with comedy. But I think Mozart's music is very mathematical. IZZARD: Yes, well, comedy is very mathematical. SAGAL: Yeah, because you loved things like math and sports and stuff. That's when I actively started trying to be funny in class. But, no, I wasn't funny until I was 16, 17. And if you get to a point where you're interesting, you've just put layers of interestingness over the boringness. I think I'm naturally boring, which maybe all people are. But it was a little bit surprising because, unlike most comedians, certainly most extraordinarily successful comedians, you don't describe yourself as being very funny growing up. Very good to be with your crazy, crazy audience. DON'T TELL ME.ĮDDIE IZZARD: Thank you very much. He has written a new memoir about his remarkable life. He is certainly the only one, as far as we know, who has done stand-up in more than 40 countries and in four different languages and, as far as we know, is the only comic to describe himself as a, quote, "action transvestite." Eddie Izzard might be the most famous comedian alive. And now the game where we talk to people who have come a long way, and then they wonder why they stopped by here.
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