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White Male Stand-Up

Alan Davies

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Film, TV & radio, Performing arts: comedy, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands &, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Memoirs

A brave and startlingly honest memoir by one of the country's best-loved comedians and the bestselling author of Just Ignore Him.

'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.

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.

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Alan Davies

Alan Davies is a comedian, writer and actor, best known for starring in the hit BBC series Jonathan Creek and for his regular appearances as a panellist on QI.
In 2016 he took a Creative Writing MA at Goldsmiths College (Univ of London) which led to the publication of his childhood memoir, Just Ignore Him (Little, Brown 2020). The book, widely praised for its honesty and humour while sensitively dealing with issues such as bereavement and child abuse.

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