Eddie Izzard now goes by the name Suzy

Apart from the whole trans thing, that interview makes Eddie sound like an idiot.

Has he always been this stupid?

considering the brit splits are just as crazy as the states right now. . .

it's possible but not for Labour.

r1 Yes.

He is such a bad actor. And aging poorly.

"Suzy"? How dreadful. She sounds like a chimpanzee on a tire swing. (© 1972 John Waters)

There are dozens of names that would suit her better. I think Diana would be a lovely fit. Or, frankly, keeping it Eddie seems like the prudent choice. If it's good enough for Miss Monsoon....

"I did drag first, then politics. Worked for me."

Same name as his dead ex-girlfriend. That's not at all weird.

r5 also, antiquated slang for a vagina.

[quote]Izzard says she has wanted the name “since I was ten”

At a certain age, you just gotta let your childhood fantasies go. Otherwise, you're just making people question your maturity levels. And now someone like that wants to shape the future of the country by becoming MP, that's just great.

r7 meh. people name children after recent dead... despite the taboo in many cultures.

It rubs the lotion on its skin…..

I don't see why people are getting het up. It's easy to just not watch anything he's in and it's unlikely you'll encounter him in your day to day life.

R12 Moronic newbie.

Mike Piazza, devout Catholic with wife and kids, is a good friend. Wonder what he thinks?

R8 Mama's suzy is dripping?

Have mercy, Eddie. I mean, Suzy.

R13 "Newbie" sounds like a term a school child would use. I see you logged your sock puppet accounts on to like your own post as well.

Does “Suzy’s” carpet match her drapes? And what type of equipment does “Suzy” have “down there?”

I don’t understand. Has he taken even the most cursory of glances at the world’s current heads of state? Does he expect to lose at the polls and then rejoice that at least he moved the ball down the field for men who like to swan around in female clothing and will live forever in the history books?

When a person is a comedian and they make jokes and we laugh, it’s great fun. When they **become** a joke it’s so painful.

Good on you Eddie/Suzy, you do you. I don't know them and I don't care what he/she wants to be called. DLers shouldn't care either...none of our business. Get on with your own lives...bitching about really important things.

Genuinely thought it was Denise Welch in the photo.

I don't see why this is any big deal. Not sure about her political aspirations but overall a funny person and have enjoyed their work.

Suzy can go fuck herself with a Belisha beacon if she thinks Jeremy Corbyn is an honourable man. What a bitch.

Eddie Izzard has transitioned… into Crissy Rock!

[quote] Mike Piazza, devout Catholic with wife and kids, is a good friend.

You forgot his most important attribute- Trump supporter.

I have no problem with Izzard changing her gender.

I am still trying to decide whether or not orange really [italic]is[/italic] her color, though--I actually think she pulls it off, though her ill-defined chin is a beauty problem.

You can't change your gender. You can only pretend.

He looks like he's morphing into Sharon Gless in that photo. Someone stop him !

Are Eddie/Suzy's tits real??

Suzy and Sam Smith both look like Pat Butcher.

Should have stopped at Executive Transvestite. But they didn’t have a flag, so here we are.

I thought he was gorgeous at that stage. He had presence, the colors worked for him, he was funny like crazy. I bought his memoir and have bonded with people by quoting from the “The monkey is on the brach” bit.

Rose Marie, you're alive! And identifying as a fish wife, I see.

Izzard was funny as as transvestite. As a trans woman he is sad and unattractive. Now pathetic.

Eddie looks like latter day Rachel Roberts...

Whatever, Suzy.

I have always liked Suzy. Wish her much success in whatever career she desires.

R12 Not for our little sunflowers here at the DL.

They have to rage and rage and rage every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year of every decade of every century about the evil

TRANS! TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANS TRANSES!!!!!!!

R38 sounds tense.

Am choosing to remember him only as the fabu Jerry Devine. He doesn't exist for me any more beyond that point.

Sozzy has a very thick neck.

It's the IBS, R39. Have some sympathy.

Pat Butcher was my first reaction too, R30. Autogynophilia strikes again. I just don’t see the point to all this effort people go to. How does wearing a woman’s dress and makeup solve any of life’s existential problems? How does it bring meaning to his life? It’s just like seeing a very, very old child dressing in his mother’s clothes and shoes. Whatever…

Well we all know a dolled up woman is the happiest thing on earth.

He makes one hideous lookin' broad.

His expression and his eyes almost remind me of Elliot Page—they’ve convinced themselves pretending to be the opposite sex is the solution to all their problems, but it’s forced and they have this look of disappointment because, at some level, they know that they’re still exactly the same person they were before they changed their name and pronouns. It’s pretty sad.

Will he write a book though to lecture us about the nature of womanhood?

Pet theory...

Taking aside the creepy sexual fet!sh element (that I'm sure is there in spades, regrettably), from his written and performed material one gets the impression it's always bothered Eddie that he's not naturally beautiful or glamorous or gamine, as a woman or a man. Personally, I wouldn't call him ugly, and he has had snatched moments of cheeky gimlet-eyed jolie-laide or interesting attractiveness over the years, but never much more than that (and so what? Dowdy regular people live entire lives that way).

Apparently, being funny and charismatic and (formerly) intelligent then getting put on stage and becoming famous and well-rewarded across years for that simply wasn't enough for someone so special and important. No, he has to coercively pressure people into noticing and praising the way he looks, as well, perhaps to satisfy some old pain or hunger or perceived lack. It could be his own wildly-creative and active mind has somehow spun clever justifications for this behaviour, not seeing the plain truth for what it is.

So imo it's Ego and miserable illness as well as perving, maybe even more so. It has to be something overwhelming and self-centred and mentally unhinged like that, for an otherwise smart perceptive savvy man formerly sympathetic to womens' plight to do this. At least, I hope so, because if he's just been AGP this entire time and nothing more, that's sadder than anything.

Presumably Fat Putrid Fuck was already taken Eddie?

“Eddie” was interesting and funny because he was confident and didn’t give a shit what anyone thinks about him.

“Suzy” is uncomfortable to watch because she wears her insecurities on her sleeve and is desperate to be liked.

He looks like Pink

He looka lika linebacker!

He has the full support of the People's Front of Judea. or is it the Judean People's Front.

I'm getting Rachel Roberts vibes...

r35 - Didn't see yours, Rick. Brilliant minds...lol.

Not sure why everyone got upset at Kiwi Farms because a lot of these remarks would be right at home there.

R55, Doris-LaChat... right? It's that plump Cheshire cat look!

umm...no to all this.

Putting the obvious fuckery aside, as a Western Brit this rhetoric annoys me no end:

[quote] Despite missing out on selection in Sheffield, Izzard still wants to be an MP in the North of England. “I’d still love to be an MP for Sheffield, anywhere up North,” she said, “if there is a North/South divide - I wanna fight for the North.”

Sorry, do people like me and my family just not exist? Is it London/Essex/surrounding areas, then Manchester/Liverpool/surrounding areas, then...wasteland? The Mists of Avalon? What? Or do such people just think of us as dispensable carrot-munching plane-fearing Hobbit simpletons? Do you want everyone West of Birmingham to only have votes in the Senedd? (I mean, I wouldn't be opposed, I'm half-Welsh, but that's not common).

First order of business as MP - trans rights.

OMG, r57/Rick, we...are...not...alone.

Look At Me! Look At Me!

Attention starved.

Will he agree to have bottom surgery on camera for those clicks?

R59 Suzy Izzard seems to believe that old trope that North Englanders are more "working class", masculine and sexy than South Englanders.

(61) Doris, will there be a Rachel Roberts bio/pic starring Eddie Izzard as R.R.?

Judi Dench after a weekend bender.

r66- Who will play Rex?

This news story about this uninteresting comedian seems only to have been broadcast by the gay newspapers while being ignored by the mainstream newspapers.

R70

Uh, no. The original link in OP is not to a gay newspaper.

I loved that video of a few years ago when this comedian was walking the streets of Glasgow.

The crowd was getting vey pushy and angry.

^ Seven years ago.

Tottering in heels. Not coping. Lapsing into an American accent.

Tell me about it.

Eddie is an AGP.

R25. And Mike lives in Florida.

I've seen bulls that had more elegant necks than Miss Suzy Izzard.

Bullnecks were sexy on Brando and Dylan Geick.

Not new Miss Suzy.

I avoid foul-mouthed 'slag comedians' like Billy Connelly who rely on jokes about alcoholism. So I've never seen Izzard.

Where can I see Izzard at their witty best?

R40, thanks for that memory *chef's kiss.

Honestly at first I thought it was Pauline from Eastenders in OP’s pic.

Suzy? I thought she went by Pink.

Eddie was an ugly man.

Suzy is an ugly woman.

She looks like a bi-polar lunch lady named Doris. Maybe Helen.

What is the point? Why is saying I’m a lady now, a rite of passage since 2015 or so?

It is screamingly, hopelessly contrived and hollow.

[quote] Genuinely thought it was Denise Welch in the photo.

That's funny - I thought it was Raquel Welch!

Square head, square head, square, square. Head!

[quote]Same name as his dead ex-girlfriend. That's not at all weird.

Skinwalking creep.

So he's gone Whole Life Transvestite....Ok....SUZY, ya old hag.

She shore is ugly.

She's a comedic genius. I'm more than happy to call her by whatever name she chooses. She's been politically active for many years, perhaps she will succeed in becoming an MP. I just hope that she doesn't give up comedy. I suppose she'd have to as an MP but it will take a while to win a seat.

Very good luck to her.

[quote] She's a comedic genius

Here?

He looks like a Suzy.

This bitch will cut you. She is a scary bitch.

Serving chubby Helen Mirren realness.

Well more real than Bruce Jenner and Dylan Mulvaney at least.

He has an unfortunate surname.

I suspect I would grow up to be bitter and twisted and self-destructive if I was forced to bear a surname which reminds people I meet of lizards and gizzards.

Eddie / Edie? Or Eddie/Evie? But Suzy? Nope. No one is a Suzy by choice. That's just too bananas.

Always interesting, always been a fan. All the best Eddie Suzy! Life is too short to spend it all on one identity.

R79 Eddie Izzard’s standup special Dress to Kill was really funny. He was an open transvestite then. His stand-up was mostly funny stories about history (Stonehenge is one I remember.) He wasn’t slagging off anyone or cursing much as I recall.

I will always think of “her” as Eddie not Suzy. I’ve lost all interest. Honestly I hope she is happy; I just don’t get it.

Quite a few Gender Kool-Aid drinkers in these comments.

Maybe after a stint as an MP, Charles can bump her upstairs to the Lords as a Baroness.

Who will fuck that ?

Wake up little tranny….wake up

He used to be really great.

I think she looks wonderful for her age. But I prefer to see her not as Suzy, but more as Ginny from billing.

We're just normal, decent people R100. We don't hate Trans and we're never going to hate them no matter what insane things you make up or claim. We don't think you're right about Trans. In fact, we think you're out of your mind and in need of psychiatric help.

Kool-aid drinking is not required to be a decent person.

R106 you think it's okay to give kids cross-sex hormones?

Normal, decent people of Datalounge.

Oscar Wilde said—

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that a mediocrity can pay to an originality.

R106 Spoken frautastically.

Yes I do, r106, I support gender-affirming care just like the vast number of medical and psychiatric professionals do.

The TERFs are attacking the fraus now? I had no idea.

The TERFs'll lose that one for sure.

I don't hate trans. I just have a hard time taking it seriously. But at 61 years old, Eddie/Suzy can do what she wants. Being delusional is not a crime.

I will say it's refreshing that she isn't uptight about which pronouns people use.

[quote]“And so I wrote a statement, ‘I prefer she/her, I don’t mind he/him. No one can make a mistake,” she added.

R111, "gender" isn't real. That's why it's impossible to "affirm" it.

So don't use these made up phrases like "gender-affirming care" that were designed to sound vague and not serious. These very serious procedures already have names. Just say mastectomy, castration, whatever.

Angelina Jolie had a mastectomy. Not gender-affirming care.

R113

I'm looking at that dress and thinking 'straining gusset'.

Why not Edina?

🎭 Suzy Q

Hey Suze, Whitney’s got a message for you:

Suzy, meet your new BFF Samantha "Sam" Smith.

Suzy got your number Suzy ain't your friend look who's going under with 7 inches in.

Is he still a lesbian or bi or gay?

r50 hits the nail squarely on the head.

Suzy has a lisp and a twisted mouth.

Good for Eddie/Suzy. Congrats

R123 Until his next name acting role comes along.

*male not name

[quote] You can't change your gender. You can only pretend.

No, you mean there you can change your sex, not your gender. Your sex is your biological fact of who you are, and comes down to your chromosomes (XX or XY... or rarely, XXY). Your gender is the social construction of whether you are male or female.

History shows us there are many people who were biologically one sex, but who were able to pass as a different gender, so they were in fact literally able to change their gender since they changed how people perceived them (which is what gender, rather than sex, means). One of the most famous was the jazz bandleader Billy Tipton, but also check out the wikipedia pages for Thomas(ine) Hall, Charley Parkhurst, Joseph Lobdell...

No... I mean you cannot change your gender, sex, whatever you want to call it. Those people did not change their gender, they dressed up and *pretended* they were the opposite sex. I've dressed up as Snoopy for Halloween. It doesn't make me a dog.

Goodness me, what a chassis!

She makes for one of the strangest looking women I have ever seen in my life.

I don't know about that, R127, you sure seem like a low-down dog to me.

I walked into a bad joke? Who cares? I'm still right.

He has a history of telling people that he shows his cock in women’s toilets. This is a complete fetish for him. Even the tits are fake. Eddie is a very, very sick man.

Is Suzy a fan of The Little Mermaid?

When there’s money to be earned from acting Eddie is always in boy mode. He’s not that deluded.

My what a handsome woman

If I was trans I think I’d call myself Frederica Bimmell.

Why do so many trannies use the names of dead people they were in a relationship with? There's another guy who took the name of his dead wife and wears her clothes and shit.

R137 because it’s a creepy fetish. They want to wear women’s skin. Buffalo bills.

Gross.

I used to love Eddie's comedy, he was hilarious. The last live show I saw was back in 2012, Force Majeure was awful. I don't know if comedy has been a priority since or if the focus has all been on politics.

Genius.

Genius.

She’s a pretty lady now. Everybody repeat after me. She’s a pretty lady now.

Genius.

Genius.

Genius.

LOL r136!

[quote] There's another guy who took the name of his dead wife and wears her clothes and shit.

So he's a coprophiliac as well as a transvestite.

Unfunny cunt.

The genius is a pretty lady now. The genius is a pretty lady now.

In boy clothes he looks like a rapist.

In girl clothes he looks like a fat pervert.

He’s not trans as he goes out in men’s clothing sans makeup. He wears fake tits too.

No doubt in my mind they are a DLer.

Nicola Sturgeon's replacement has been found.

R152, yes, he's like that Canadian teacher who wore huge prosthetic breasts in front of his class but was then caught dressing like a man when he wasn't teaching school kids.

R126, so then if Rachel Dolezal hadn't been outed as white she would have been considered to be a black person because she successfully passed?

R156 She was. Until she wasn’t.

R155 Idiots like that are why Republicans are winning the culture wars.

R126, and what about the transgenders who don't successfully pass? That means they haven't actually changed genders, right?

R159 Do any of them pass? Apart from some lady boys.

R80 Velvet Goldmine is delightful trash, and I will adore it forever, even if creepy straight pervs were cast in it.

"Autogynophilia strikes again."

You realize that 93% of natal women have some from of autogynephilia, and that 28% have an intense form of it?

I'm guessing "no" since is the same tired argument ignorant "straight pride" types use without knowing anything about...well, anything.

And if you have a dick and you enjoy jacking off. Guess what you've got?

R162 ...natal women....

You must be a freak, r163.

I'm literally quoting from a medical journal.

But I guess science is the bane of your existence since your micropenis diagnosis.

It's unbelievable how all these medical journals have been captured by this gender trend. It's all about the $$$ now.

R126, if Billy ever had any intimate relationships with anyone how could she have passed as a man as she had a vagina?

So it seems that some may have passed with strangers but not with those who knew them best. That's not changing gender.

Let's be honest that's ugly

She is now to only be known by Suzzard .

We're done here.

Suzy Izzard?

Too may "z"s. I'd change it.

Whoever would have dreamed he wanted to transition into Rue McClanahan?

[quote]I walked into a bad joke? Who cares? I'm still right.

More like you're still pretending to have cancer, r131. You're a sick piece of shit, trolling all day on DL while also scamming a bunch of people on your cancer thread. Those are people who just want to be nice to a sick old man, but who have no idea that while you're supposedly on death's door, you're actually trans trolling all over DL, making homophobic comments, being a racist, and just a general asshole all around.

Oh, give it up, R171. Go dilate somewhere. No one is interested in your bullshit and your lies. The only one scamming is you.

Hey, R137. Variation on that theme: When my sister and her husband decided to divorce, they separated. During that time, he announced that he was a woman and would be transitioning. He took my sister’s middle name as his new first name. We all found it creepy. No idea why he/now she did that. We’ve all lost contact.

R162 is full of shit autigynophilia is a male fetish. Women aren’t fingering themselves because they look pretty in a dress.

Time for you to clean out your rot pocket.

[quote]I'm literally quoting from a medical journal.

Link?

Correct, R174. I think tragically under-informed R162 was intending to refer to the concept of "internalized male gaze." That's the idea that women are so sexually objectified by straight men, and straight men dominate society and culture so much, that women often unconsciously turn that gaze upon themselves and view themselves only as they presume straight men do.

That's not autogynephilia. You can't have a fetish for imagining yourself as something you already are. Duh.

So this is the type that we hate? The straight crossdressers who watch women piss? I get confused.

So dainty and feminine.

I only ever hear about the trans and gender thing online. No one in my real life ever mentions it and I never come across it. But the anti trans trolls act like it's taking over.

She has let herself go.

He says here you can call him Eddie or Suzy but professionally he'll still go by Eddie when selling tickets for a show.

R170 The poor soul couldn't get the initials BED with the E & I.

He looks like KJ from 3rd Rock From The Sun.

R179 depends on where you live, I guess. I see a couple a day walking in the neighborhood.

They’re OK by me. Their clothing choices usually aren’t, but hey, I’m not paying for the outfits.

^ For the record my "Dick Solomon the Jew" moniker was based on the show where Alien Dick chose a random name for himself so others thought he was Jewish. I wasn't being Anti-Sem. in any way (for those of you who haven't seen it).

He looks like Ursula from The Little Mermaid

^ Do you think Disney will hire him/her for that role in today's political climate?

R187 Only if they make a full on R rated horror version.

I'm getting Sharon Gless vibes.

"My Name is Not Eddie"

My God, he had all that surgery just to end up looking like me?!

Oh fuck off you fat tiresome cuntless wonder.

Suzie Lizard isn't a name I'd have selected

He still into chicks or how does this work now? Was he gay before, I can't seem to recall.

R194 - Sadly for Eddie, neither do any of his former sex partners.

He was never gay.