[2] An extended version of the show was taken to the West End, then to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (where it was nominated for a Barry Award), the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado (where it won the Jury Award for Best One Person Show) and finally to New York where it ran for more than three months and was named Best Comedy Show of 2001 by Time Out New York.

The show originated following a drunken bet between Dave Gorman and his friend Danny Wallace.

So the two travelled to Methil (from London—several hundred miles), with a polaroid camera, to meet the assistant manager, whose name was indeed Dave Gorman.

Initially the bet was fairly vague, but on the way to meet Dave Gormans numbers three and four, they debated what "loads" meant.

This acquired something of a cult following[citation needed] and several people helped Dave in his quest, which he did eventually complete.

Two Australian soap operas have named fictional characters Dave Gorman as an in-joke and the comedian has been bombarded with so many e-mails about it that he has had to publicly appeal to people to stop sending him details of other Dave Gormans.