Alan Davies: Life is Pain
Best known as Stephen Fry's mop-topped buffoon on QI and duffle-coated detective in Jonathan Creek, Alan returns to his stand-up roots.
Performance times
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Fri 24 May
Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
Sat 16 Nov
£25 / 01303 228600
Princess Theatre, Torquay
Tue 12 Nov
£25 / 0870 847 2315
Reviews & features
Interview: Alan Davies brings Life Is Pain to 2012 Edinburgh Fringe
Jonathan Creek star on stand-up, therapy and Hillsborough
Prior to recording, QI’s elves flash interesting facts up on monitors for the audience. What they don’t reveal, as Alan Davies is explaining to me at a café in Highbury Corner, is that budget cuts have meant they’re now shooting two shows a day: ‘a hell…
First raft of shows from 2012 Edinburgh Fringe programme
5 Mar 2012
Stewart Lee, Jimmy Carr, Rhod Gilbert and more to appear at Fringe 2012
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has revealed around 60 shows to take place at this year's event in August. The announcement comes weeks before the full line-up announcement on Thu 31 May. Comedy shows form the bulk of the latest show announcements…


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