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. 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.