QI's Alan Davies on White Male Stand-Up

Alan Davies on White Male Stand-Up

From the panel of QI to front and centre at Topping & Company, we are excited to welcome Alan Davies for the follow-up to his memoir of childhood, Just Ignore Him.

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.

Written thoughtfully and with brutal honesty, it's a story 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 story of White Male Stand Up.

Alan Davies is a comedian, writer and actor, best known for starring in the hit BBC series Jonathan Creek and for his regular appearances as a panellist on QI.