White Male Stand-Up by Alan Davies #literature Her listless intern

Her listless intern

Patrick returns home

This is both a love letter to life on Earth

his father’s sickness

White Male Stand-Up by Alan Davies #literature Her listless internOn the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List 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.