Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens

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Eddie Izzard's long-awaited full memoir - erudite, engrossing and above all very very, funny The stand-up comedian of his generation. Star of stage and screen. Tireless supporter of charity. Runner. Political campaigner. Fashion icon. Human. There is no one quite like Eddie Izzard. This is the story of how a boy who wanted to become a professional footballer and win the lead in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat found comedy. Affecting, witty and nothing less than rousing, readers will, as Eddie himself says, 'look at my life and say, 'If that idiot transvestite can run a whole bunch of marathons, play the Hollywood Bowl, and travel across France with a French-speaking tour, then what's holding me back?''

Best-known for his cross-dressing stand-up comedy routines, Eddie Izzard was born in Yemen. After working as a street performer throughout the 1980s, he received his big break in 1993. He is the recipient of two Emmy Awards, two British Comedy Awards, a Webby and a Tony nomination. A committed activist, he received the 6th Annual Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. He may or may not run for Mayor of London in 2020.

King of the Universe . . . Comic genius . . . Entertainment incarnate * Telegraph * Izzard is Wikipedia in heels. He's made his career out of hilarious, dizzying, surreal routines held up by their own daft logic . . . A force of nature * Radio Times * Sheer Comic Genius. His humour reflects the scattershot lunacy of Monty Python, but with a sophisticated silliness that is entirely his own. He is the most brilliant stand-up comedian of his generation * New York Times * A comedy gem * Guardian * Izzard has a knack for reducing centuries' worth of history to just a few exquisite words (the Romans were just 'fascist plumbers', for example) * Time Out * The funniest man in England * John Cleese * The funniest man in, well, pretty much all of the known universe * Los Angeles Times * Izzard is fleet of foot - even in Cuban heels * Independent * Had the Pythons stuck it out, they'd certainly be doing Izzard-like gags * Chicago Tribune * A consistent intelligence underpins Izzard's whimsy * Chortle * True Izzardians are every bit as committed in their fandom as Star Trek or Dr Who fans * Guardian *