On the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List '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 .
