Ashley Davies
- Journalist
Press clippings
Larry Dean: "My pal had Disco Inferno played at his funeral"
The comedian on going on holiday with his family, being diagnosed with autism and picking on the wrong people at live shows.
Ashley Davies, The Times, 1st May 2024Fern Brady: "I won't water myself down for the Taskmaster crowd"
The comedian talks to Ashley Davies about the inspiration behind her latest tour, dealing with hecklers and why she's over light entertainment.
Ashley Davies, The Times, 17th April 2024Ashley Storrie: "Mum became a comedian, so we became a travelling circus act"
The writer and comedian on sliding along the bar as a child, her love of William Shatner and the joy of Wellington's short airport runway.
Ashley Davies, The Times, 10th April 2024Marjolein Robertson: who are all these nerds watching my videos?
The comedian, whose relationship with the truth got her banned from editing Wikipedia, is amazed so many like her educational sketches on the Shetland dialect.
Ashley Davies, The Times, 13th March 2024Bob Servant: 'I blame myself for the fall of the Berlin Wall'
The owner of Dundee's third most successful burger van on why he'd apologise to Lulu and how he talked Annie Lennox down from a bottle fight, via his creator, Neil Forsyth.
Ashley Davies, The Times, 11th January 2024Edinburgh's Krystal Evans finds humour in the darkness
There's a popular formula to a lot of Edinburgh Festival Fringe stand-up shows. The comic keeps the audience happy and engaged with jokes and stories for 40 minutes and then hits them with something sad.
Ashley Davies, The National (Scotland), 1st August 2023Fiona Allen reveals ageist and sexist comment from younger male comedian - and how she shut him down
She talks about the terrifying transition from telly to stand-up, who she finds funny and how her attempts at mid-life hobbies failed...
Ashley Davies, Metro, 31st July 2023Megan Stalter: 'My comedy only works because I'm nice in real life'
No one plays delusion for laughs better than the comedian and Hacks star.
Ashley Davies, The Times, 22nd July 2023Sanjeev Kohli: 'The Young Ones flipped the comedy switch on in my brain'
The actor and comedian hung out with Prince's band and idolised Deep Purple's keyboard player.
Ashley Davies, The Times, 15th July 2023Kieran Hodgson: The comedian exploring English perceptions of Scotland
There can't be that many stand-ups who worry about getting tangled up in 19th-century Church of Scotland policy beefs when writing their Edinburgh shows - but Kieran Hodgson isn't your bog-standard comedian.
Ashley Davies, The National (Scotland), 14th June 2023