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Speaker 1: Alan Davies is coming back to town for the first

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Speaker 1: time in ages.

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Speaker 2: Where has he been? Where we're going to call hospitals.

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Speaker 1: The Think Ahead Tour is Tuesday, November twenty five at

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Speaker 1: the Riverside Theater. Tickets are available through ticket Tech from

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Speaker 1: this morning. I would get in too sweet. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Alan Davies.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you now.

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Speaker 1: As I said, where have you been? It's your first

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Speaker 1: tour of Australia in a decade.

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Speaker 3: I don't know where that time went. I don't know

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Speaker 3: where it went. Took a whack that did, and then

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Speaker 3: I was a third child here he took.

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Speaker 2: I then kept.

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Speaker 3: Gigging but not touring, and I didn't have a full show.

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Speaker 3: I had half a show, so I'd be gigging around.

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Speaker 3: I haven't been out of stand up, but now I'm

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Speaker 3: accumulated enough. And also I'm sixty next year. I've got

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Speaker 3: to do it before it's too late.

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Speaker 4: I'm sixty this year.

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Speaker 2: Stop.

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Speaker 4: We're not geriatric.

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Speaker 5: Yes, just the byeline for my.

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Speaker 3: Show, as I spent more time in the pharmacy than

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Speaker 3: the gyp.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I did see that man, he said Ellen and

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Speaker 6: Davies sinks he's money McFly, he's older than Doc Brown

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Speaker 6: and that line, you need to stop getting enemies to

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Speaker 6: write your press releases.

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Speaker 5: That's because I fit my youngest, my youngest back to

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Speaker 5: the future of the musical. And he looked and he

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Speaker 5: got the brochure and there's a picture of Doc Brown

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Speaker 5: in it, and he just looked at me and looked

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Speaker 5: in the picture and he.

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Speaker 3: Basically was saying, that's you fly skateboard.

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Speaker 4: We're going back, all right.

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Speaker 2: So what are you thinking ahead about?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know the show, because I put the show

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Speaker 3: together over month, John an idea down here, think of something,

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Speaker 3: put that together with that, and then it kind of

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Speaker 3: reveals itself to me by the end of it, as

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Speaker 3: much as surprise.

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Speaker 2: For me as anybody else.

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Speaker 3: But there's quite a lot in there about my kid.

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Speaker 3: It's quite a fair bit about its functions.

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Speaker 5: You know, your everyday.

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Speaker 6: Observation, don't radio station. We'll playing lots of continents and stuff.

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Speaker 1: So god thinking ahead, not thinking out loud.

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Speaker 4: Working terror.

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Speaker 6: But as time goes on, do you find that you've

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Speaker 6: actually with life experience so you become a better comedian

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Speaker 6: as such? And maybe someone else has robbed to tell

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Speaker 6: you that that. Do you feel like there's more material

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Speaker 6: and you know what to do with it.

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Speaker 3: Now I feel comfortable up there. Yeah you do. You

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Speaker 3: know what you're doing, and it is something that gets

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Speaker 3: better with age. The best best stand the Bible saw

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Speaker 3: with Dave Allen the Great when I saw him. He

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Speaker 3: was sixty one when I saw him, and he was

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Speaker 3: absolutely fantastic.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not that there's no barrier.

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Speaker 3: In fact, well, when I think about myself, as in

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Speaker 3: my twenties, I say, what a fool you.

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Speaker 5: Experience and wisdom.

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Speaker 3: Counts for something, But then you can't get upstairs. So

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Speaker 3: you know it's.

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Speaker 2: About maybe you can keep in mind the funny side

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Speaker 2: of it, then you know you're all set. We all try.

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Speaker 2: I spent half my life trying to remember what I

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Speaker 2: came into a room for.

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Speaker 4: So you know you've done a lot of that.

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Speaker 3: I don't have to go into a room did not

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Speaker 3: know what I've been. I might have been in a

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Speaker 3: room for an hour.

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Speaker 6: Open the think I head to it might be a

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Speaker 6: bit of forward planning.

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Speaker 4: So you don't do it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I may or may not be.

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Speaker 2: You'll be fine. You'll be a good company.

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Speaker 1: One thing of course, about as we age the you

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Speaker 1: know you're the things that you've done, the list gets longer.

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Speaker 2: You outlasted Stephen Frye on Q I.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that show had such.

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Speaker 2: A long standing success.

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Speaker 3: Because it's me, of course, it's.

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Speaker 1: Just me, As the kids would say.

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Speaker 3: It's the behind the scenes expertise of a team of

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Speaker 3: researchers and all I do is try and ruin it.

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Speaker 3: People like it and that's great and I'm I'm very

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Speaker 3: glad popping in Australia. That's the bonus.

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Speaker 6: Yeah more actually, yeah, yeah, very much so speaking of

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Speaker 6: Stephen for unless you when I had a lovely chat

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Speaker 6: with Stephen a few months ago, are you as big

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Speaker 6: a cricket tragic as he is?

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Speaker 3: I do have the cricket bug as well. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: the thing that he and I normally in contact over.

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Speaker 3: If I ever seen it will be it will be

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Speaker 3: at Lord's usually. So yeah, we love the cricket.

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Speaker 4: Have seen that?

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Speaker 6: You haven't seen that Freddie Flintoff documentary. It's a ripper

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Speaker 6: at the moment.

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Speaker 3: I will look at that, you know, And he did

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Speaker 3: a really good series. I don't know if I've seen

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Speaker 3: it here where he took a load of kids, kind

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Speaker 3: of slightly disadvantaged kids who didn't know much about cricket,

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Speaker 3: and he took them out to India talking about to

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Speaker 3: play cricket. Took them to India and it was such

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Speaker 3: a good broke and it was really good.

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Speaker 4: I like, yeah, it's very lovable. Freddie.

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Speaker 1: Do you do you still hold the Guinness World Record

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Speaker 1: for most Christmas crackers cracked in thirty seconds?

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Speaker 3: You know someone else tried to beat it. I mean

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Speaker 3: really really, you know that's so I can do more

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Speaker 3: than that. Oh, we're well done, because I just they

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Speaker 3: just empty the box of crackers in front of me

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Speaker 3: in the middle of Q said all those and I

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Speaker 3: broke the world record, and then people spat out to

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Speaker 3: beat me. You are find one of your own.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, and leave his record alone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that.

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Speaker 4: Hope you've got a plaque on the wall or something.

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Speaker 3: Not a funny joke in any of them.

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Speaker 4: That's true, true, but we still read them out. We

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Speaker 4: still giggle in sympathy. Do that in pain.

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Speaker 1: I like to write my own I like to bespoke

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Speaker 1: my Christmas crackers.

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Speaker 4: Yes, a business in that.

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Speaker 3: Well, you got too much time.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's a very small Christmas gathering. One or the other.

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Speaker 1: Alan would you ever consider reprising Jonathan Creek.

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Speaker 3: But it's not going to happen so long now. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: David love him dearly the right and creator. Yes he's

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Speaker 3: part that he's part of that one. But it was

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Speaker 3: a great privilege of my life to play that character.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, good, good memories. Really though at the time.

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Speaker 4: I moaned about it, I got to learn those lines.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, can I go home.

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Speaker 4: Tiring? Yeah, we do. We do have a moment at

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Speaker 4: the time and then look back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, well we we look forward to the third

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Speaker 1: installment of your memoir coming out later this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, lord, why male stand up right?

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Speaker 4: And that is my title.

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Speaker 3: But that's what I've always been. And now someone said

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Speaker 3: to me, basically, is that a rallying cry? Is it

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Speaker 3: about canceled Gould?

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Speaker 5: Just no, it is not.

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Speaker 3: It's about being a comedian. It's about my life. In

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Speaker 3: comments in the book, you know, you can go a

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Speaker 3: little bit stand ups, a bit skin deep a lot

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Speaker 3: of the time, but you can you can dwell on

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Speaker 3: things a bit more and go a bit deeper. So

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Speaker 3: that's what I'm trying to do.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to it, mate, I love that you have

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Speaker 1: to explain why it's called white male stand up well.

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Speaker 3: Literally doesn't mean anything except what it says exactly well.

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Speaker 1: As I said, tickets are available from this morning for

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Speaker 1: the Think Ahead tour and I'd get in really quick

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Speaker 1: to get those. It's Tuesday, November twenty five. We we

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Speaker 1: look forward to you coming to town, Allen.

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Speaker 3: Looking forward to it to see you there.

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Speaker 4: We'll see we can get some cricket at the Whacker

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Speaker 4: for you too. That would be nice to see you Alan.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye