# White Male Stand-Up

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- Book: [White Male Stand-Up](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-davies/white-male-stand-up) ([White Male Stand-Up.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-davies/white-male-stand-up.md))
- Authors: [Alan Davies](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-davies)
- Publisher: monoray
- ISBN: 978-18-0096-257-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2025-09-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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.