{"id":5771,"date":"2013-05-16T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2013-05-16T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T13:37:00","slug":"alan-davies-life-is-pain-uk-tour-2013-%e2%80%93-millennium-forum-sat-30th-nov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2013\/05\/alan-davies-life-is-pain-uk-tour-2013-%e2%80%93-millennium-forum-sat-30th-nov\/","title":{"rendered":"ALAN DAVIES LIFE IS PAIN UK TOUR 2013 \u2013 Millennium Forum, Sat 30th Nov"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cONE OF THE BEST STAND-UP COMICS OUT THERE\u2026PACKED WITH DEFT SILLINESS AND SHREWD OBSERVATION\u201d Guardian<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Alan Davies - photograph courtesy of Tony Briggs <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the phenomenal success of the Australian and UK Tours of Life Is Pain<\/em> in 2012 (his first live Stand-up show for more than a decade), a critically acclaimed tour of New Zealand and two nights at London\u2019s Hammersmith Apollo earlier this year, Alan Davies – the much-loved star of iconic television series such as Jonathan Creek<\/em> and QI<\/em> – will tour the UK again this Autumn due to popular demand.<\/p>\n

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Alan <\/strong>began his career in stand-up comedy in 1988 and was runner-up in the City Limits<\/em> New Act of the Year<\/strong> contest 1989. He was named Time Out<\/em> Best Young Comic<\/strong> in 1991 and made his network television debut on Tonight with Jonathan Ross<\/em> in 1992. In 1993 two appearances on C4\u2019s Viva Cabaret <\/em>led to a nomination for a British Comedy Award<\/strong> as Best Newcomer.<\/p>\n

In 1994 he won an Edinburgh Festival Critics Award for Comedy<\/strong> and a Perrier Award<\/strong> Nomination and the show was released on VHS as Live At The Lyric<\/em>. The following year he appeared at the Montreal, Melbourne and Auckland Comedy Festivals and was nominated for a British Comedy Award<\/strong> as Best Stand-Up Comedian..<\/p>\n

In 1996 he took the eponymous role of Jonathan Creek, <\/em>written by David Renwick. The show ran for 14 years and has been seen by audiences worldwide. A special episode was filmed earlier this year and is due to be transmitted this Easter.<\/p>\n

His 1998 show, Urban Trauma<\/em> ran at the Duchess Theatre before touring the UK and was recorded for a DVD and shown on BBC1 with a documentary series about the tour, Stand-Up with Alan Davies. <\/em><\/p>\n

In 2001 Alan took the role of Bob in Russel T.Davies\u2019 Bob & Rose <\/em>for which he was awarded Best Actor in a Drama at the Monte Carlo Television Awards<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n

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In 2002, he starred in Auntie and Me<\/em> by Morris Panych for another sell-out season at Edinburgh before transferring to the Wyndham\u2019s Theatre for a four month West End run. That same year Alan took part in a comedy pilot hosted by Stephen Fry. QI<\/em> has subsequently run every year since 2003.<\/p>\n

The lead role in two series of the ITV1 legal drama, The Brief,<\/em> followed, and in 2009 Penguin published his first book, My Favourite People 1978-1988<\/em> which was adapted into a three part documentary series for Channel 4 called Teenage Revolution<\/em> (also the title for the paperback).<\/p>\n

In 2010 he took the lead role of chef Roland White in the BBC2 sitcom Whites <\/em>and in 2011 Alan co-wrote and starred in a short film for Sky One as part of their Little Crackers <\/em>Christmas season before returning to Australia for a successful tour of QI Live<\/em> followed by a sell-out tour of his new stand-up show, Life<\/em> Is Pain<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Alan\u2019s performance of Life Is Pain<\/em> was recorded at HMV Hammersmith Apollo earlier this year and will be released on DVD in November 2013.<\/p>\n

Alan Davies performs at the Millennium Forum on Sat 30th<\/sup> November. Tickets are now available from the Box Office.\u00a0 Telephone 71 264455 or visit www.millenniumforum.co.uk<\/a> for bookings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cONE OF THE BEST STAND-UP COMICS OUT THERE\u2026PACKED WITH DEFT SILLINESS AND SHREWD OBSERVATION\u201d Guardian Following the phenomenal success of the Australian and UK Tours of Life Is Pain in 2012 (his first live Stand-up show for more than a decade), a critically acclaimed tour of New Zealand and two nights at London\u2019s Hammersmith Apollo … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}