I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

His mother died from leukaemia when he was six and he was raised by his father. A version of that show which ran in the West End at the Duchess Theatre and toured the UK and United States was shown on BBC1 in 1998. The couple had met backstage at QI in 2005.

Alan Roger Davies (born 6 March 1966) is an English comedian writer and actor best known for his stand up routine playing the lead role in the TV mystery series Jonathan Creek and as the permanent panellist on the TV panel show QI.