‘Davies has done it again, damn him. Irritatingly good. Maddeningly funny. Annoyingly fine.’ STEPHEN FRY<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Emotional, entertaining and startlingly honest. I was totally engrossed<\/b>.’ AMY LIPTROT<\/b>, author of The Outrun<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Following Just Ignore Him<\/i>, the bestselling memoir of his traumatic childhood, White Male Stand-Up<\/i> is what happened next to Alan Davies.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/i>, to the unwelcome realisation that most people know him from a bank advert and think he’s had a perm.<\/p>\n
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<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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