{"id":362354,"date":"2026-04-03T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/362354\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:44:08","slug":"eddie-izzard-on-her-long-awaited-return-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/362354\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Izzard on her long-awaited return to New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQUING_lPrTeJ_Q_jpeg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: manda Searle\n<\/p>\n<p>Comedy legend Eddie Izzard is known for revolutionising the art of the stand-up monologue.<\/p>\n<p>Hers is a career that spans over four decades &#8211; comedy, yes &#8211; but it also includes acting, political campaigning and running marathons.<\/p>\n<p>She is drawing on it all for her standup tour &#8216;The Remix: The First 35 Years&#8217; which is finally making its way to Aotearoa next month after a knee injury forced her to re-schedule late last year. Her acclaimed solo performance of Hamlet also brings her back here in July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: manda Searle Comedy legend Eddie Izzard is known for revolutionising the art of the stand-up monologue. Hers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-362354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}