rom Eddie Izzard’s comedy we expect the incongruous. But was anything ever odder in the 61-year-old’s standup than the climax to her 2019 show Wunderbar: “ My last tour before politics,” she said then. As the jokes fell away, the audience was confronted with a near-messianic oration about the ways Izzard intended, through politics, to heal the world. It’s a dream that may inch closer to reality this winter, as Izzard runs for the Labour candidacy in the seat of Brighton Pavilion. At the same time, she gets back on stage for a global standup tour, Remix, revisiting routines from her 35 years in
