Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1289 - Eddie Izzard
Uploaded: 2019-05-03T02:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1289 - Eddie Izzard' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-05-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1289 - Eddie Izzard' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-05-03. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1289 - Eddie Izzard

three two one boom and we're live how are you what's going on i'm good i'm
pouring coffee in
the first seconds perfect of our chat that's the good way to do it with a
cafeteria i think it is
i think that's named in a french way a french press that's what they're called
is it called
well it's called i think it's called cafeteria but it's probably called a pot
of coffee but um
that makes sense but you know there's a french word for it that we just ignore
here in america
they did a lot of the food you know because you have um herbs you know herbs
and i used to do this
bit of material which i really enjoyed saying you know the difference between
british and american
you say this and uh you say herbs and we say herbs because there's a fucking h
in it right and i used
to say this is a fucking h but and i thought why has the h dropped off for america
i think it's because
a lot of french guys would have come over immigration and they would have done
a lot of
cooking you know these french guys know about cooking and they do the elbs and
they they cut
the h off totally so i think that was an influence from that probably julia
child julia child was she
french yeah i think wasn't she she is now i mean she's into french cooking oh
right okay but that was
her thing maybe lafayette sit next to washington say we will use albs with the
stuff here and then we
could do the revolution new war and then uh and then you guys will win and then
then we'll hate each
other program well you all you guys also do a lot of weird stuff where you put
like a u in color
and you have a y in tires what do you put in tires open i are yes yeah i think
we had we had first
dibs on the like yeah i don't understand what we did do you know what you got
on the uh your guys got
on the mayflower and they said okay we're going to talk like this but i'm going
to say whoo a lot
and uh we're going to get put get rid of the y in tires we're going to invent
tires get rid of the
way yeah i just think the u in color and honor is a u in honor as well and uh
yes we've got it and
you've got it out i think yours is more logical on a lot for honor yeah not for
herbs no herbs is
i think that's more french influence i i agree yeah i always wondered because i
grew up in boston and i
always wondered like those were the first people to leave england and europe
like what the fuck
happened to their language because they developed the most disgusting brand of
it
well you've got your a's your boston a's which i can't hear a strong boston
coming out of you yeah i
got rid of it i heard myself on television once when i was like 19 years old i
was like holy shit what is
that well you guys had or you we used to have uh the mother father brothers and
it's the ah yeah and we say
mother mother father sister we don't have an r at the end of our mother brother
father sister and you
mother yeah we say mother instead of mother and the rest of america has has a
much stronger ah and
ireland has that that's a very irish influenced thing and for us the i when we're
playing when i'm
playing american when i was in you know doing roles like that the r was the
hardest thing to get
hard hard tar i remember friends saying hey i was cooking this thing that came
out like hard hard
tar and i thought that is the one to practice because that is just hard hard
tar we called it
hard hard tar which is just doesn't sound the same you've spent a lot of time
over the only time i've
ever spent in uh england is working uh like a little bit of you know downtime
doing stand up and
and hanging out over there but most of it has just been working either working
for the ufc or
i'd never really get a chance to really spend time in england i'd like to i'd
like to do that just to
kind of understand you folks well i're a different breed when i think at the
base having played 45
countries now i think everyone is actually the same when you get down below a
level but you know if
you're going to reach for you there's going to be a number of things which
would make it seem
different and brand names will be different than your sports does you know
everyone's sports does
that kind of thing but underneath it all it's going to be there's going to be
more mainstream
people it's going to be alternative people there's going to be and the whole
spectrum now like in the
old days it used to be everything was mainstream and a bit of alternative now
we i think your country
my country we have a whole spectrum of what's interest people it's much more
open in that way
yeah no i i certainly agree we yeah it's the the the collection of people is
very similar it's just
they're operating in a different environment a different theater right yeah
yeah and uh you know
we are tightly smashed together what would be 65 million and you're 300 million
and you're such a
large your country is so large compared to us yeah um because there was a thing
of 10 only 10% of americans
have passports but if you look at the area something like that but then if you
look at where the 10% can
go in america it's just so huge right so it's slightly more understandable why
a lot of americans
say i don't need a passport because i'm just going to go to that place which is
miles away that's
understanding of you but i think you know i think it would do everybody good to
go somewhere like
like asia like a every time i go to asia i always think okay people are like
this too like this is
this is an interesting thing to experience like thailand in particular which i
really loved right
thailand is uh it's amazing because it's like wow they might they hit like this
perfect frequency
where everybody's really friendly and really nice and it's it's a you know they
call it the land of the
smiles it's this very unusual environment there where everybody seems like warm
and greeting i don't think i
ran into one rude thai while i was there i that sounds very interesting and i i
i've yeah when
i i toured asia but unfortunately it was kind of in out and you know yeah in
and out but uh that's
interesting about the time thai's more than any other country because i'm sure
they must have a black
market and a thing and some gangster some time maybe they're very nice gangsters
maybe the nicest
gangsters we know i'm sure they're not ask you first before they shoot you i'm
sure when it gets to
the drug smuggling and yeah sex trafficking and all the other days we're gonna
do sex but would you mind
awfully if polite drug smugglers i mean they they have obviously a very open
environment when you go
you see bangkok it's like muay thai fights and chaos and a lot of expats
wandering around drinking it's
just you know there it's a different sort of world over there but when i was
there i was in chiang mai
and it's just super friendly people beautiful landscape very nice have you been
in vietnam no
never heard it's amazing though but yeah i mean i find that from american
perspective it would be
very interesting people going there even if they you know were there before and
during the time of
war or after just to see how people are because they fought for so long there's
all the french stuff
before that the end of china but even before yeah america got involved and they
call it a thousand
year war that they fought anyway it's interesting i i hope new generations
coming along don't bring the
baggage of before of you know previous generations and we can all move try and
move forward into a
world that's more positive even though it doesn't necessarily look like that
well what has always been
really interesting to me about vietnam um that i learned from bourdain was that
they they don't hold any
grudges towards americans which i find incredible i i got that sense of it i
have not played they haven't
been there but i got that sense that they were looking forward they just accept
it that's the past
and they don't have any grudges and just like it's an amazing attitude it is an
amazing attitude i suppose
it's better if you they did an empirical uh is it empirical window they kind of
they didn't like
do a massive conquer in the in america left and so they got what they were i
assume the majority of
them were trying to get you know yeah they can run it however they want to run
it but um yeah it's it's
tragic the things the wars are getting into i was going to be in the military
when i was a kid that was
one of my i want to be in special forces you know you look at me now being a
transgender guy with that
but yeah that was where i was i know trump wouldn't have let me in the forces
right now if i applied
right this second um but yeah so i follow everything i i kind of run my life on
on a military that sounds
a bit weird i run my career on a military thing because it's quite difficult to
you know any career
putting it together kind of weird what's your next move what's this how so you
like strategize isn't that
yeah oh yeah strategy up the wazoo i plan 50 years ahead really oh yeah well if
you think about you
came out i came out as transgender 34 years ago that's not the first good thing
that an agent wants
to hear you're transgender that's 85 this is such a hot thing this is even now
they would say okay well
it's got a little better than it was for about 10 millennia it's a little
better now but it's still
not the hottest ticket that everyone's we want transgender guys in here for
this that the other it's
not the top of the list right and i've also got boy mode and girl mode and i do
drama dramatic films
in boy mode and then i'm touring in girl mode and doing stand-up and i campaign
for politics in
girl mode and i just how do you do that i just switch change you know take off
heels flat shoes
yeah because if you were just talking like if you you didn't have makeup on and
you didn't have the
heels and the nails you just seem male yeah yeah well it's uh it's i think it's
genetically
unbuilt you know there's some i think there's quite a lot of people maybe who
were um uh the
the way they're light they live their lives they live their own personality
they're not particularly
male or female i feel but i feel i've always felt since i was four or five i
want to express this side
of myself and it's built in i think it's genetic um and if you analyze
masculine and feminine if you
really get down to it you i it's i find it impossible to come up with anything
that was particularly masculine
particularly feminine except for the ability to build muscle mass is easier for
men in event
commerce that's it but you know great footballers soccer players men and women
athletics runners men
women strong character men's weak character sure men and women um mathematicians
whatever whatever it is
there's nothing that you can really say ah that is only good shot and with a
gun no anyone could do
that it's uh we're all humans and so and we get fixated by the masculine
feminine whereas it's a
tiger if a tiger's attacking you and trying to kill you you don't go now is
this a girl tiger or a boy
tiger we don't care about it and they don't care either the tigers so you've
always felt like you
gravitated towards feminine things towards no gravitate towards both i i had i
gravitated towards
playing soccer i was in the first team for two years when i was a kid was
planning to do officer training
corps and then go marines or paris and then going to special forces rsas which
would be the equivalent
of your delta force um and that was a distinct plan i knew a lot about that and
i thought which war
they're going to send me to actually which one they send me to and it could be
the idiots that i'm at
school with will send me to the wrong war because world war ii is very clear
and then after that every
other war is kind of hazy uh but there's all this feminine side girl side i'm
not sure how to do it
articulate even after 34 years it's difficult to articulate but i wanted to
express that
um and if i look more like a woman then i you know it it would be much easier
but um yeah so i
decided to do that in 85 when it wa