Eddie Suzy Izzard has been doing stand-up comedy for more than 30 years.

She came out as a transvestite early in her career, using the only terminology that was available then. She now identifies as gender-fluid and transgender. She brings her observational humor to the Broward Center on Oct. 22 for The Remix Tour, which promises to be a night of thought-provoking, intelligent, and surreal stand-up comedy. Actor, comedian, multi-marathon runner, and political activist Eddie Suzy took some time out of her busy schedule to answer some questions for OutSFL.

Your appearance at the Broward Center will be your stand-up act. As someone who has had success as an actor on stage, and screen as well as stand-up, can you explain the satisfaction you derive from each and how they differ?

Stand-up is very freeing after having just been doing “Hamlet” for six or seven months. Then I go back into a “Hamlet” tour in 2025. In Shakespeare, the lines are chosen for you. There are a few comedic moments in it, but they could be counted on one hand. So that's great, we'll do that. Then basically real comedy, which is totally in my control, and I can change the words by the minute, by the seconds. I can add pieces, I can subtract pieces. Essentially, when I do comedy, I'm trying to make people laugh. I'm trying to entertain myself comedically. I suppose I'm trying to move myself dramatically when playing Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude, and Claudius every night. I am trying to get myself, to be inside the drama or the comedy, that people come with me and take to comedy or take to an emotional place through my work. I really like doing them both.

Your emergence as transgender is part of your stand-up, although you say you realize that you were aware of your identity by the time you were 5 years old. Can you explain how you came to accept this part of your identity?

Basically, I knew I was trans, TV, whatever. You know the language has changed over the years. I knew that when I was 5, but I didn't tell anyone until I was like was 23, and then I came out with the name of Suzy. When I was 10, I saw a film that had a character name Suzy and I thought, I would have liked to have had that name, but that's never gonna be. I started accepting it as part of my identity when I was 23. That was 1985, so long ago. I just had to get all my courage together, walk out the door, and be the person I wanted to be. Now, I'm so over it, so that's where I am.

The she/her pronouns adjustment was a few years ago and throwing Suzy into the mix as a first name, these have just been additions to it. But, it's not like this just happened. There's nothing new going on. It’s very, very, old news. Suzy is a new name that's been added in, and I don't mind people asking. People ask about my preferences. I prefer Suzy, don’t mind Eddie. I don’t have a dead name. Eddie is made up; I was born Edward. I prefer she/her, don’t mind he/him. You can't go wrong. You can use either, and that's the way I'm going to go forward.

How have audiences responded to the emergence of Suzy?

No difference at all; zero, zippedy-do-dah. Except some people call me Suzy and some people call me Eddie. The Remix Tour at The Broward Center on Oct. 22 is about the first 35 years of my career, picking and choosing everything from Death Star Canteen, to the death of Caesar, to cats and dogs pets, to talking about bees and beekeepers covered in bees. It's a stroll through my career. Any other pieces you might have seen in any of the shows I've done might come up.

You were vocal about your opposition to Britain leaving the EU. Did you get much blowback from that stance?

No, because, if you followed much on the Brexit story, we said it wasn't gonna be very good, to be positive for the country. I think the country is now agreeing with us. Most of the audience that was coming to my shows were people who were positive and it's the way forward for the world. So you know you don't have to start agreeing with the other side if its effort goes against your way. You just fight harder to get it back, the people who are against it because they were negative about making connections and learning from other people are still negative, so it makes absolutely no difference.

Do you think Great Britain will return to the EU?

It's inevitable. The youth of today will not stand for it. Time goes on and then they say, “We had all these freedoms. This ability to work together, live together, and retire together in different places in the European Union. We've lost that.” We were promised £350 million and re-doing the NHS, but that never happened. A lot of promises were not kept and were just made in a Trumpian style, so they didn't happen. It's inevitable that Great Britain, I think, will return to the European Union. It's our continent in the end.

As a fellow atheist, I sometimes think that many of the so-called political problems stem more from religion than politics. What are your thoughts on this?

I'm a non-theist. Atheist has been attacked as a word that no one actually knows what it means, but generally, they don't think about it. Obviously, it means non-theist, not believing in a mystical person who's trying to help everything in the world. World War II is my proof. If he's not coming down for 60 million people, he's not coming or he's not there. I just think it's more likely he's not there. If he's there, I'm very happy to be proved wrong. Any day God can come down any day of the week, and that's fine, but he doesn't seem to come. People don't actually have to be religious to have the extreme right-wing viewpoints as the Nazis weren't, as Hitler wasn't, you know Trump isn't. With Trump it is not a religious thing, it's this selling of Bibles, it was linking himself to religion, it's just another one of these lies. He just lives by lies. At some point, there's going to be a poster of Trump and the word ‘Fake’ written across it, because he has been a fake the whole time he’s been in politics. I think extreme political viewpoints don't have to be religious, they just have to be extreme. When they say, ‘These people are right and other people are wrong,’ Everyone in the world has the right to a fair chance in life; that's my worldview.