Product Description
White Male Stand-Up
Author: Alan Davies
Format: Paperback
On the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List
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.
Often very funny and always honest, this very personal memoir is a rich tale 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 tale of White Male Stand Up.
‘Davies has done it again, damn him. Irritatingly good. Maddeningly funny. Annoyingly fine.’ — STEPHEN FRY
‘Emotional, entertaining and startlingly honest. I was totally engrossed.’ — AMY LIPTROT, author of The Outrun.
‘Really honest and really funny’ — Lorraine Kelly
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