White Male Stand Up

<p><b>On the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List</b><br><b><br>'Davies has done it again, damn him. Irritatingly good. Maddeningly funny. Annoyingly fine.' STEPHEN FRY</b><br><br><b>'Emotional, entertaining and startlingly honest. I was totally engrossed</b>.' <b>AMY LIPTROT</b>, author of <i>The Outrun</i>.<br><br><b>'Really honest and really funny' Lorraine Kelly</b><br><br>Following <i>Just Ignore Him</i>, the bestselling memoir of his traumatic childhood, <i>White Male Stand-Up</i> is what happened next to Alan Davies.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 <i>Jonathan Creek</i>, to the unwelcome realisation that most people know him from a bank advert and think he's had a perm.<br><br>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 <i>White Male Stand Up</i>.</p>