Davies is an outstanding storyteller, and while the writing is tight, his delivery has a loose confessional air. He seems genuinely excited to be brining the audience into his confidence, like close mates, even starting off by confessing to problems with his undergarments this evening. The cynic might wonder if he says this every night, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it. Man Down – Interviews with Greg Davies & Rik Mayall – Channel 4 – Info – Press". Channel 4. 25 October 2013 . Retrieved 10 May 2015. a b "Wem's Greg Davies makes it big". Great British Life. 13 April 2011. Archived from the original on 17 November 2011 . Retrieved 11 March 2020.

Davies is noted for his height, standing 6ft 8in (2.03m) tall. [28] [29] He lives in the Kennington area of London. [30] He was in a relationship with Labour Party politician Liz Kendall from 2007 to 2015. [5] [31] Comedy specials [ edit ] Year Since July 2015 Davies has been the host of the panel game show Taskmaster. In December 2015, he starred in BBC Two's comedy drama A Gert Lush Christmas where he played Tony, the uncle of Russell and Kerry Howard's characters. On Christmas Day he played King Hydroflax in the 2015 Doctor Who Special " The Husbands of River Song". [21]Also as good as the show was I felt like it wasn’t quite long or developed enough, I think the show could have been improved with a little more audience participation (not just the same 3 people in the front row… by the mic…). He over-eggs a reconstruction of a phone call between himself and his mother that shows their contrasting views on life, but it does come with a great punchline, courtesy of Davies’s ebullient father, who fans will remember from the previous show. Davies Snr makes a couple of appearances here, perhaps to recalibrate the meter of ‘normal behaviour’ and serve as a reminder of where Davies got his eccentricities from, even if watered down over the generation.

Davies himself doesn’t shy away from similarly ikky ground, and his stories can be charmingly horrific as he sugars the pill with his easy-going charisma. That also gets him over some bumps in the show around the three-quarters mark where the stories don’t quite hang together perfectly, although they remain very funny.

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