EDDIE IZZARD - IZZARD STRUGGLED TO LAUNCH COMEDY CAREER

IZZARD STRUGGLED TO LAUNCH COMEDY CAREER

Funnyman EDDIE IZZARD struggled to make audiences laugh during his early days on the stand-up circuit, according to comedienne JO BRAND.
The comic-turned-actor, who starred alongside Tom Cruise in World War II drama Valkyrie, first found fame with his comedy routines in the U.K.
But British stand-up Brand insists Izzard was so bad when he first started, his fellow comedians pitied him - until he finally proved them wrong.
In her new autobiography, Look Back In Hunger, she writes: "Eddie Izzard was absolutely terrible when he started, just not funny. It became a standing joke: 'Eddie's died again'.
"One night at the Red Rose Labour Club we were steeling ourselves for Eddie to have another nightmare, feeling sorry for him because we all liked him, and out of the blue he stormed. The crowd went mental, gave him an encore, and he never looked back."