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Alan Davies

January 2024

  • QI in 2009 with Alan Davies, left, host Stephen Fry, centre, and host-to-be Sandi Toksvig, right.

    How we made
    ‘It was originally Smartarses v Dunderheads’: how we made QI – by John Lloyd and Alan Davies

    ‘QI is about how extraordinary the world is. Learning that elephants are 22 million times the size of bees makes you realise you haven’t really been paying attention to anything’

May 2023

  • Courtroom drama … Sean Astin as Sunny Gryce, Juliet Rylance as Della Street and Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: murder, fire and oil barons – a busy first day back for Perry Mason

    The depression-era drama returns for a second series. Plus: Leomie Anderson fronts Glow Up. Here’s what to watch this evening

April 2023

  • ‘We won’t be doing it again’ … Caroline Quentin and Alan Davies in Jonathan Creek.

    How we made
    ‘I put them in bed together just to get it over with’ – how we made Jonathan Creek

    ‘The BBC needed some persuading. Alan Yentob said: “What are we going to do about his hair?”’

March 2023

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    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice’s ‘lovely jubbly’ road trip

    The Strictly dancers do Sicily. Plus: Line of Duty pals Neil Morrissey and Adrian Dunbar explore their DNA. Here’s what to watch this evening

November 2022

  • Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, 1603-1604 by Caravaggio.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about fathers and sons

    In memoirs by authors from Philip Roth to Michael Frayn, the Dad-Lit genre is always a little oedipal but there is also room for warmer feelings

July 2021

  • Alan Davies photographed at his home in London. Alan Davies is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He has played the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek since 1997, and has been the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show QI since 2003. Alan Davies has a new book out called “Just Ignore Him” , a memoir of growing up in 1970s Essex.

    Sunday with Alan Davies: ‘It’s very football-focused at the moment’

    The comedian tells Rachel Corcoran that training with the five-year-old starts at 9am, out the back of the house

September 2020

  • Alan Davies in 2007

    Book of the day
    Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies review – a life derailed by abuse

    In his fiercely honest memoir, the actor and comedian confronts the painful bereavement and abuse he endured as a child

August 2020

  • Alan Davies aged 14

    Alan Davies: 'I didn't want my shack of feelings blown down'

  • Alan Davies photographed at his home in London.

    Alan Davies: 'I've become a huge enemy of silence and secrecy'

April 2020

  • Alan Davies as Jonathan Creek and Caroline Quentin as Maddy Magellan.

    Lockdown culture
    My top tip for coping with coronavirus anxiety? Watch Jonathan Creek

    Alan Davies’s self-assured amateur sleuth and Caroline Quentin’s feminist writer take us back to a happy golden age of bad haircuts, landlines and denim

October 2019

  • Leila Mimmack (Edie), Alan Davies (Henry), Nitin Ganatra (Tim) and Alexandra Gilbreath (Virginia) in God’s Dice by David Baddiel @ Soho Theatre. (Opening 30-10-19) ©Tristram Kenton 10/19 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    God’s Dice review – Baddiel drama has science, spirituality but no spark

  • ‘Accept the meaninglessness of life’ … David Baddiel.

    David Baddiel on God, gags and being trolled – 'It hurts and then I think: material!'

June 2018

  • The Bromley Boys

    The Bromley Boys review – 70s football Britcom shoots wide

    This frail comedy about a Bromley FC fan has the odd sweet moment but strikes a false and badly unfunny note

March 2018

  • Ken Dodd in 2016

    'Non-stop gagster and comedy scientist': Paul O’Grady, Alan Davies and Frank Cottrell Boyce on Ken Dodd

    Paul O’Grady’s family cheered him outside court. Alan Davies couldn’t get a word in over lunch. And he got Frank Cottrell Boyce by the chuckle muscle. Stars remember the brilliantly bizarre comedian

July 2017

  • Tim Minchin

    25 years of shooting comedians

    Photographer Rich Hardcastle is raising money through Kickstarter to publish 110 of his comedian portraits to celebrate 25 years in the business

December 2016

  • Lovely, silly wordplay … Alan Davies and Sarah Alexander in Jonathan Creek.

    TV review
    Jonathan Creek review – suitably silly, scary, arch and pleased with itself

    It’s not easy pulling off the classic Christmas combo of spooky and cosy, but this special makes it look (super)natural. Also, James May fails to get The Christmas Reassembler together
  • A gloriously lurid tribute to the heyday of Hammer horror … Jonathan Creek.

    TV tonight
    Wednesday’s best TV: Jonathan Creek; James May: the Christmas Reassembler

    Alan Davies’s mooching sleuth breaks out the duffle coat, while May lovingly rebuilds a Hornby Flying Scotsman toy from 138 component parts
  • From left: Bad Santa, Back to the Future, Sisters, Razing Arizona, Mrs. Doubtfire.

    The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians

    From the canonical to the controversial, and in no particular order, we asked 10 standups to pick 50 movies that make them giggle. They made some surprising choices…

October 2016

  • Sandi Toksvig and Alan Davies

    Sandi Toksvig: QI dunce Alan Davies is one of the cleverest people I know

  • Alan Davies

    On my radar
    On my radar: Alan Davies’s cultural highlights

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