Alan Davies: Costa Rica, Celeb Encounters & Comedy Legends | Life's a Beach

Alan Davies joins Captain Carr on Alan Air to swap holiday horror stories, from disastrous trips to Costa Rica and eight-hour holidays in the Canary Islands to celebrity encounters with Sting and Ronan Keating. They also chat about returning to stand-up, comedy heroes, the emotional impact of Alan's memoirs, and being called Alan. White Male Stand Up is out as a paperback now! Head to https://polytar.co.uk/ CODE: LIFEISABEACH10 for 10% off. ✈️ Don't forget to like and subscribe for new episodes every week. 00:00 First meeting at Jools Holland's Hootenanny 01:20 Alan's dogs Rita and George 02:31 The decline of the name Alan 04:06 First holiday memories on the South Coast 05:16 Favourite destinations: Australia & New Zealand 05:39 Returning to stand-up with Think Ahead 06:56 Christchurch and touring New Zealand 08:42 The shortest holiday ever: the Canary Islands disaster 10:39 Costa Rica airport chaos 13:07 Costa Rica: rain, dogs and no turtles 16:36 AD BREAK – Polytar Scalp Health Calculator 18:13 Celebrity encounters: Sting and plane etiquette 20:34 Madonna's daughter and the Marbella flamenco dress 23:13 Ronan Keating and the Antigua norovirus outbreak 25:02 Just Ignore Him and writing about grief 26:28 White Male Stand-Up and comedy life on the road 28:31 Comedy heroes: Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard 31:18 Where Alan would spend his final years 32:59 Quick Fire Round 35:20 Emotional baggage & landing the plane #LifesABeach #AlanCarr #AlanDavies #JonathanCreek #TravelPodcast #ComedyPodcast #CostaRica #StandUpComedy #WhiteMaleStandUp #JustIgnoreHim