'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 .
