"comedian Barry Humphries has appeared as Dame Edna in several shows. British stand-up comedian and actor Eddie Izzard, who describes himself as an 'executive' or 'action' transvestite and regularly cross-dresses both on and off stage, has acted in several films (including most recently ""Valkyrie""), as well as releasing his stand-up work on video and DVD (""Live at the Ambassadors"" (1993), ""Unrepeatable"" (1994), ""Definite Article"" (1996), ""Glorious"" (1997), ""Dress to Kill"" (1999), ""Circle"" (2002), and ""Sexie"" (2003)). Cross-dressing in film and television Cross-dressing in motion pictures began in the early days of the silent films. Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel brought"
"summer 2011. Ian Harvie Ian Harvie is an American stand-up comedian and actor who often references being a trans man in his performances. He is best known for his appearance on the television show ""Transparent"". In 2017, transgender actors and actresses including Harvie (with the help of GLAAD and ScreenCrush) were part of a filmed letter to Hollywood written by Jen Richards, asking for more and improved roles for transgender people. Ian Harvie was born May 28, 1968, in Portland, Maine. Harvie knew he was transgender at a very early age, but didn't have a language for his gender identity"
"Bethany Black Bethany Black (born 24 December 1978) is a stand up comedian from Chorley, Lancashire, England. Described as ""Britain's only goth, lesbian, transsexual comedian"", Black is known for performing black comedy, dealing with controversial subjects. She adheres to a vegan diet. Black had a troubled childhood, suffering from depression. She attended Manchester Metropolitan University where she got a degree in film, television and cultural studies. Black had a nervous breakdown and attempted suicide on several occasions. Once she tried to hang herself, but the ceiling gave way. On another occasion she attempted to gas herself in a car, but"
"Ian Harvie Ian Harvie is an American stand-up comedian and actor who often references being a trans man in his performances. He is best known for his appearance on the television show ""Transparent"". In 2017, transgender actors and actresses including Harvie (with the help of GLAAD and ScreenCrush) were part of a filmed letter to Hollywood written by Jen Richards, asking for more and improved roles for transgender people. Ian Harvie was born May 28, 1968, in Portland, Maine. Harvie knew he was transgender at a very early age, but didn't have a language for his gender identity at the"
"stand-up show ""John Bishop's Britain"". On a 2013 episode of ""The Jonathan Ross Show"", he said he had been vegetarian for 27 years. In 2013, PETA declared him to be one of the ""Sexiest Vegetarians"" of the year. In September 2016, Bishop was ranked tenth place on ""Forbes"" Top 10 Highest Paid Comedians List where he had earned £5.4 million a year, making him the UK's highest earning comedian. John Bishop John Joseph Bishop (born 30 November 1966) is an English comedian, presenter and actor, who is also known for his charity work, having raised £4.2m for Sport Relief 2012."
"Andrew O'Neill Andrew O'Neill (born 14 September 1979) is a comedian, musician, presenter, and writer. He lives in London. Born in Portsmouth in 1979, O'Neill grew up in the London suburban town of Wallington. He has two brothers, Steve and David. He did his first comedy performance at the age of ten, and started his stand-up career on 16 January 2002, at the Laughing Horse, Camden. He since has gone on to perform in comedy clubs, theatres and music festivals throughout the UK, Australia, US and Europe. O'Neill describes himself as a heterosexual transvestite. He is a vegan. Andrew is"
"being that there are few if any women involved in their projects. This has gone on to be one of the group's defining characteristics. Matt Lucas and David Walliams regularly cross-dress in the ""Little Britain"" television comedy show, with Lucas in particular often somewhat more feminine and convincing in his appearance and performances than cross-dressing comedians of the past. The two also sometimes play a pair of unconvincing transvestites as a parody of some cross-dressers who try to act in a stereotypically feminine way while not succeeding in ""passing"" as women. The British writer, presenter and actor Richard O'Brien sometimes"
"the non-cisgender male body, these performers are resisting society's notions of the gender binary. Some transmen also self-identify as drag kings. Faux queens (also called femme queens, femme performers, bio queens or Kittens) often perform alongside drag kings and may or may not be lesbian-identified. A British lesbian cabaret organization called Lesburlesque made it part of their mission to promote drag kings on the wider British cabaret circuit. Their founder Pixie Truffle gave an interview to the ""Guardian"" newspaper in the United Kingdom on her desire for drag kings to close the gap with queens and with male stand-up comedians."
"Vicky de Lambray Vicky de Lambray (also known as Vikki de Lambray and previously David Christian Lloyd-Gibbon or David Gibbon) was a British transvestite male prostitute who became a favourite of Fleet Street gossip columnists. In an essay called ""London Grandeur"" Phaedra Kelly says that de Lambray claimed she would be ""the most famous transgenderist ever and die dramatically at the age of 30"". De Lambray was born in Herefordshire and attended a public school, before running away to London while still a teenager. There, he became a sex worker and worked as a female impersonator. De Lambray claimed he"
"Al Porter Al Porter (born 6 January 1993) is an Irish comedian, actor, and radio personality. He was born in Tallaght, Dublin. He is openly gay. Porter has been acting since he was 10 years old, and has been the headline attraction in the annual Christmas Pantomime in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin since he was in his early 20s. By the time he was 22 he was also able to sell out Dublin comedy venue Vicar Street for 3 nights as the headline act. In August 2016, while performing at the Edinburgh Festival he was mistakenly described as a"
"Lindsay Sharman Lindsay Sharman is a British comedian and actress. Sharman began her comedy career in 2009. After reaching the finals of the 2010 Funny Women awards, she took two shows to the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Giants Of Comedy and A Time Traveller's Guide to Surviving Childhood as part of PBH's Free Fringe. At Edinburgh 2012, she performed in George Ryegold's God-In-A-Bag at the Underbelly Bristo Square. In 2012 she was controversially removed from a Green Party fundraiser and replaced by transsexual comic Shelley Bridgman in an effort to increase gender diversity. Sharman later used the incident as"
"""the media was on the whole slavishly worshipping of Thatcher"". He said of his political views ""I believe in the politics of Clement Attlee. I'm a Welfare State Labour voter."" He parodied himself though in the sketch 'Benny Elton' for ""Harry Enfield and Chums"" in 1994, sending up his 'right on' socialist image as a politically correct spoilsport chasing Page Three models around a park to chastise them and tricking heterosexual couples into becoming gay. Ben Elton Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative"
"disorder in a documentary made by Stephen Fry, ""The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive"", in 2006; Slattery claimed that he spent time living in a warehouse and ""throwing [his] furniture into the Thames"". In 1998, he was elected as Rector of the University of Dundee. He has said ""I’m happily described as gay,"" and has been in a relationship with the actor Mark Michael Hutchinson since 1986. Tony Slattery Anthony Declan James Slattery (born 9 November 1959) is an English actor and comedian. He has appeared on British television regularly since the mid-1980s, most notably as a regular on"
"BBC Radio 2's ""Friday Night Is Music Night"" on 25 February 2018 at the London Palladium. Neuwirth has stated that he is not a trans woman, but is a man. He is gay, and he also described himself as a drag queen. He uses She/Her pronouns to describe his Wurst character, but He/Him pronouns when referring to himself. Neuwirth created a fictional back story for the Wurst character, claiming that she was born in the mountains of Colombia and is married to the French burlesque dancer Jacques Patriaque, a real individual who is a friend of Neuwirth's. He compared the"
"Paul O'Grady Paul James O'Grady, MBE (born 14 June 1955) is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer, and radio disc jockey. O'Grady achieved notability in the London gay scene during the 1980s with his drag queen character, Lily Savage, with which he went mainstream in the 1990s. He subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of a range of television and radio shows, most notably ""The Paul O'Grady Show"". Born to a working-class Irish migrant family in Birkenhead, O'Grady moved to London in the late 1970s, there initially working as a peripatetic care officer for"
"in 2015 that his ex-boyfriends often resented the role they had to play in the public eye as his partner. Graham Norton Graham William Walker (born 4 April 1963), known professionally as Graham Norton, is an Irish television and radio presenter, comedian, actor, and author based in the United Kingdom. He is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show ""The Graham Norton Show"" and an eight-time award winner, overall. Originally shown on BBC Two before moving to other slots on BBC One, it succeeded ""Friday Night with Jonathan Ross"" in BBC One's prestigious late-Friday-evening slot in"
"Jim Davidson James Cameron Davidson (born 13 December 1953) is an English comedian and presenter. His highest profile roles came on television when he hosted ""Big Break"" and ""The Generation Game"". He is also a stand-up comedian and writer, developing adult pantomime shows such as ""Boobs in the Wood"" and ""Sinderella"", both of which have played to sell-out audiences. Davidson has become known for his use of controversial jokes about women, ethnic minorities, gay people and disabled people, although he denies accusations that he is prejudiced against these groups. The son of a Scottish father from Glasgow and Irish mother"
"July 2012. Izzard started to freely talk about his transvestism in venues like the Edinburgh Festival as early as 1992. His stance is that cross-dressing is neither part of his performance nor a sexual fetish. He remarks in his show ""Unrepeatable"" that ""women wear what they want and so do I"". According to Izzard, ""Most transvestites fancy women."" He calls himself ""a straight transvestite, or male lesbian"". He has also said he is ""a lesbian trapped in a man's body"", transgender, and ""a complete boy plus half girl"". He has expressed a belief that being transgender is caused by genetics"
"Spike Breakwell Spike Breakwell (born Colin James Breakwell on 13 June 1968) is a British comedian. When Breakwell was four months old he became disabled through taking oral polio vaccine which caused a two-week coma. He was brought up in Dunstable, and ""treated and raised to be as stubborn and independent as anyone else round about."" In his teens he attended Lord Mayor Treloar College in Alton, Hampshire, now Alton College. Breakwell was the first wheelchair-using comedian on the London alternative club circuit from 1992, appearing on stage and BBC2 television. His act always started with the line: ""...I don't"
"hospitals in London and King's Lynn. His early material drew on his sexuality and Indian ethnicity, with heavy use of puns. He is the world's only gay Anglo-Bengali GP turned stand up comedian. In 1999, he came third in the final of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year. After several years of combining touring with his nascent medical career, Sinha's breakthrough came with his second solo Edinburgh show, ""Saint or Sinha?"", which earned him an if.comeddie nomination in 2006. Sinha has performed many times on BBC Radio 4, on shows including ""The News Quiz"", ""The Now Show"", ""Loose"
"part being cross-cast to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales. Matthew Tennyson Matthew Tennyson is an English actor of stage and screen. He won the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer in 2012. Matthew Tennyson was born in Stoke Newington, London, the son of Jonathan Tennyson a physics professor and a nurse. He is a great-great-great-grandson of poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), graduating in 2011. He is openly gay. Tennyson made his professional stage debut in 2011 under the direction of"
"Lambert and John Humphrys. Petrie has said through Twitter that his girlfriend is French, and that she also appeared in a Comic Relief special starring Kate Moss. He supports Crystal Palace FC. Ed Petrie Edward Oliver James ""Ed"" Petrie (born 22 August 1978) is an English actor, comedian, and television presenter. Petrie was born and raised in Rustington, West Sussex. He was educated at Broadwater Manor in Worthing, West Sussex, and the independent school Ardingly College in Ardingly, West Sussex. Previous presenting work includes hosting various children's programmes, on Nickelodeon, from January 2005 until September 2007, including ""Slime Across the"
"Duncan Norvelle Duncan Norvelle (born 1958, Hoton, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England) is an English comedian in the variety tradition, who appeared on television from the early 1980s. He is probably most famous for his catch phrase ""Chase me!"", leading to his often being referred to as Duncan ""Chase me"" Norvelle. His act was based on appearing to be a stereotypical camp homosexual, whereas Norvelle is heterosexual. He has three children. In 1984 or early 1985 (sources vary), he hosted an unscreened pilot dating show called ""It's a Hoot"" for London Weekend Television: the series was eventually re-titled ""Blind Date"" and hosted"
"Baptist to my Christ. I have spoken to him on the phone and suggested we meet."" Shayler has said he is committed to destroying what he calls the ""Zionist empire"". In an article in the ""London Evening Standard"" in 2009, Shayler further discussed the Messiah claim and revealed that he was living as a woman in a squat in Abinger Hammer, Surrey. His former girlfriend, Annie Machon, claims Shayler's long battle with the intelligence services led him to suffer a breakdown. Shayler has since told newspapers that his transvestite 'alter ego' is called Delores Kane. David Shayler David Shayler (;"
"In April 2017, he did four shows across the U.S. alongside musician Khaled Siddiq and poet Prince Umi. In May 2017, Ali performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse for BBC Asian Network's ""Comedy Night"". In October 2016, Shahalom was named one of the ""Young British Muslim Millennials Changing The World"" by ""The Asian Today"". Ali Shahalom Ali Shahalom (; born 15 October 1992), also known by his stage name Ali Official, is an English comedian and television presenter of Bangladeshi descent. Shahalom was born in Devon, England. He studied Drama and Theatre at GCSE and A-level. In 2011, he moved"
"the lumberjack inherited his tendency for transvestism from his father. At the end of the version in ""Flying Circus"", a letter written by an enraged viewer (voiced by John Cleese) is shown to complain about the portrayal of lumberjacks in the sketch. The letter reads: ""Dear Sir, I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which you have just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are lumberjacks, and only a few of them are transvestites. Yours faithfully, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.) P.S. I have never kissed the"
"comedy role model as Monty Python, and John Cleese once referred to him as the ""Lost Python"". In 2009, he completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief despite having no prior history of long-distance running. He has won numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his comedy special ""Dress to Kill"", in 2000. Izzard's website won the Yahoo People's Choice Award and earned the Webby Award. Izzard is openly ""straight transvestite"" having cross-dressed both on and offstage. Izzard has campaigned for various causes and has been a Labour"
"Media Forum hosted a keynote seminar on the representation of LGBT people in British mass media. Two speakers in particular addressed the subject of transgender representation: Stuart Cosgrove, Director of Creative Diversity at Channel 4; and Tim Davie, chairperson of the BBC Working Group on Portrayal and Inclusion of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Audiences. They noted a general absence of transgender people in British broadcasting, and reported that ""transgender storylines… are frequently lacking in breadth and substance."" In a later interview, Cosgrove added that there are ""high levels of inaccuracy"" in British media reports about transgender people. In an effort"
"Rebecca Root Rebecca Root (born 10 May 1969) is a British actress and stand-up comedian. She was rated 18th in ""The Independent on Sunday""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Rainbow List 2014, which named her as one of the very few openly trans actresses in mainstream television, alongside Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson. She played the leading role in the 2015–2016 BBC Two sitcom ""Boy Meets Girl"". Root is also a voice coach, teaching at the East 15 Acting School and from her home in Highgate, London. She started that career after she transitioned and acting work became harder to find. She graduated from the"
"always been a Conservative, though I would have voted for John Smith. I hope we have a new Conservative leader making his way to the top now. We need a new man."" During a 2012 interview on ITV's ""Loose Women"", Biggins said that he felt same-sex marriage should not be legalised, stating that marriage ""is for heterosexual couples"". Despite this, on 29 March 2014, Biggins attended the ""I Do To Equal Marriage"" event which celebrated the introduction of same-sex marriage in England and Wales. Christopher Biggins Christopher Kenneth Biggins (born 16 December 1948) is an English actor and television presenter."
"woman. Kenny Everett dragged up in his TV show as an OTT screen star called Cupid Stunt. Kenny was particularly unconvincing as a woman because he had a beard to which a lot of flesh-tone makeup was applied. However she says ""all in the best possible taste"" as she exposed her knickers as she re-crossed her legs. She is in more of the Dame Edna genre. David Walliams and (especially) Matt Lucas often play female roles in the British television comedy ""Little Britain."" Walliams also notably plays the part of Emily Howard – a ""rubbish transvestite,"" who makes an unconvincing"
"the new show ""Charm Offensive"" which they toured nationwide. Anderson is a transgender woman. She had sex reassignment surgery after graduating from university as part of her medical transition. She completed her social transition some time before speaking publicly about being transgender. She is a patron of Humanists UK (formerly known as the British Humanist Association). She later became a humanist celebrant for Humanists UK, specialising in non-religious weddings. On 15 September 2010, Anderson, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in ""The Guardian"", stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK."
"drama, along with his achievements in international charity work. Articles Lenny Henry Sir Lenworth George Henry (born 29 August 1958) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer, and television presenter, known for co-founding the charity Comic Relief, and presenting various television programmes, including the comedy ""Chef!"" and ""The Magicians"" for BBC One. He is currently the Chancellor of Birmingham City University. Lenny Henry was born at Burton Road Hospital in Dudley, on 29 August 1958, the son of Jamaican immigrants to Great Britain. One of seven children, he was the first to be born in the United Kingdom. He"