Just Ignore Him
2020 memoir by Alan Davies
Just Ignore Him is a 2020 memoir by the British comedian Alan Davies, detailing his early childhood.
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Alan Davies is a British comedian, known for his acting in Jonathan Creek and permanent role on the panel show QI. Just Ignore Him was his second book, following My Favourite People And Me, 1978–88 (2009), which was republished as Teenage Revolution. Davies later said of his first book that "all the things that mattered were missing". Davies worked on Just Ignore Him while pursuing a part-time MA in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He began the MA course in 2016, initially writing short stories about his life in the third person. At the end of his first year, he submitted for assessment a passage of writing which later became the chapter "Hands", with few changes needed. Davies expressed an interest in writing a stand-up show about the material covered in the book.
Davies consulted with friends about his plan for the book, some of whom asked if he was sure that he wanted the personal information within it to be public. He viewed the story as his and his mother's and wished for it to be told. In an interview with The Observer, Davies said that: "I also wanted to tell people they could talk about their own stories, even if they had never talked about them before".
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