I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Instead he interrupts himself with new joke ideas the characters he portrays turn into other characters and he nonchalantly leaps from topic to topic. He commented on this debacle in later performances and furiously started to write new tangential material hoping to satisfy audiences. He played Dr.

Izzard has cited his main comedy role model as Monty Python and John Cleese once referred to him as the "Lost Python". He had a starring role in the television series The Riches as Wayne Malloy and has appeared in many films such as Ocean's Twelve Ocean's Thirteen Mystery Men Shadow of the Vampire The Cat's Meow Across the Universe The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Valkyrie. Schadenfreude in the 2008 MGM animated film Igor and Miles Axlerod in the 2011 Disney/Pixar animated film Cars 2.