This memoir by the award winning actor, comedian, and marathon runner is amusing, intriguing, occasionally rambling and confusing, and loaded with footnotes. I listened to the audiobook which is read by Izzard. He designates what is and isn't a footnote and occasionally adds extra material that isn't in the print book. Some of the extra material includes times when he pauses to Google on his phone a detail, date, or location left out of the print book. The book opens with the death of his mother when he was just a child and follows a not quite linear trajectory through his school years, his early attempts at performing, and his ultimate success. There is much discussion of what Izzard refers to as his alternative sexuality, but without sordid "tell all" details. Of course, I needed to find the print book to peruse the collection of photos that can't be seen via audiobook.
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