Alan Davies

It's just, you know, it's very much a working trip.

Well, you've got to go to where the audience is, right?

I mean, you've gone all that way.

And I've been around New Zealand a few times, and I just enjoy it.

I like going from town to town, and...

you know that's that's the job and i'm pleased with the show that i've got the show's really working well once you've worked it up and you've got it and it's when it's flying along that's when you've got to you know leave no stone unturned to get everyone you possibly can now look the show's content some of it is actually quite heavy how do you feel about talking about this with people

I mean, it's been a lot... You know, I had this strange life where a lot of dark things happened as a child.

It took me a long time to, you know, unburden myself, which I did initially in the form of a memoir called Just Ignore Him, and I've just written another volume of memoir, which is kind of part two, called White Male Stand-Up.

It's about losing my mum, it's about this abuse story with my father...

And when I was writing the second volume, I started to work up kind of alongside it ideas for a stand-up show and really wanting to talk about all the more difficult things that I've experienced in that form, thinking, well, I've been doing this for 35 years.

I'm able to turn my hand to it.

I know there are people in the audience who've had similar experiences.

I know there are people filling theatres or turning up, just sitting there in silence, as I did for decades.

Let's...

Get it out in the open and I try and be as funny as possible and present a full version of who I am, really.

And it's really paying off.

The response is really good.

It's been very gratifying.

I didn't know how it would go.

And I just think it's the best show I've done.