White Male Stand-Up
On sale
9th September 2025
Price: £25
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‘Davies has done it again, damn him. Irritatingly good. Maddeningly funny. Annoyingly fine.’ STEPHEN FRY
Following Just Ignore Him, the bestselling memoir of his traumatic childhood, White Male Stand-Up is what happened next to Alan Davies.
It’s the story of how he threw himself into the joyous and idealistic world of stand-up comedy, leading to a television career, but how echoes from the past, and the thought that everyone might prefer it if he disappeared, saw him repeatedly dismantle everything around him.
With a cast of well-known comedians, actors, agents and producers, Alan awkwardly navigates his life from the camaraderie of the comedy circuit via life-changing fame as TV’s Jonathan Creek, to the unwelcome realisation that most people know him from a bank advert and think he’s had a perm.
Written thoughtfully and with brutal honesty, it’s a story of uplifting highs and painful lows, of success and excess, and the dangers of both. How Alan Davies survived it – and very nearly didn’t – is the compelling story of White Male Stand Up.
Following Just Ignore Him, the bestselling memoir of his traumatic childhood, White Male Stand-Up is what happened next to Alan Davies.
It’s the story of how he threw himself into the joyous and idealistic world of stand-up comedy, leading to a television career, but how echoes from the past, and the thought that everyone might prefer it if he disappeared, saw him repeatedly dismantle everything around him.
With a cast of well-known comedians, actors, agents and producers, Alan awkwardly navigates his life from the camaraderie of the comedy circuit via life-changing fame as TV’s Jonathan Creek, to the unwelcome realisation that most people know him from a bank advert and think he’s had a perm.
Written thoughtfully and with brutal honesty, it’s a story of uplifting highs and painful lows, of success and excess, and the dangers of both. How Alan Davies survived it – and very nearly didn’t – is the compelling story of White Male Stand Up.
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Reviews
A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away
'Davies has done it again, damn him. Irritatingly good. Maddeningly funny. Annoyingly fine.'