'His comedy is the real thing: one of the most breathtaking shows of this, or any, Fringe' (THE LIST); 'A huge talent, no doubt about it' (THE SCOTSMAN); 'A comic alchemist, turning the banalties of life into glittering laughter... magical' (THE INDEPENDENT); 'A comic whose imagination runs riot' (TIME OUT COMIC OF THE YEAR 2006); 'The comedic Iron Man' (NEW YORK TIMES); 'The best stand-up at the Festival' (THREE WEEKS); 'Could positively transform the bleakest occasion' (MELBOURNE AGE); 'Could make binary code a show-stopper' (METRO); 'Something of a hero' (CHORTLE); 'Joyous' (THE TIMES); 'Magnificent, simply exhilarating' (THE TELEGRAPH). WINNER if.comeddies Panel Prize 2006, WINNER Time Out Award 2006, NOMINEE Barry Award 2006, Perrier Best Newcomer Award 2005.
Website
myspace.com/crapattheenvironment
Influences
My wife.
Members
TV Shows
Albums
Books: BULLET POINTS (Random House, February 2004); A LIGHT-HEARTED LOOK AT MURDER (Random House, August 2007); CRAP AT THE ENVIRONMENT, THE BOOK (not the real title probably; Hodder, April 2008)
About me: Mark Watson is one of the most talked-about British comedians to emerge in recent years. The winner of numerous prizes including the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award, Chortle Award for Innovation and Tap Water Award, he has also been nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award, Times/South Bank Breakthrough Award, Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Novel Award, Time Out Stand-Up Award, and - in April 2006 - Barry Award for the best show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Despite all this he is perhaps best known for two marathon shows at the last two Edinburgh festivals, lasting respectively 24 and 33 hours. At the end of the 2004 show, he proposed, successfully, to his girlfriend (now wife). His first novel, Bullet Points, came out in 2004 to great acclaim and the next, A Light-Hearted Look At Murder, is out in Summer 2007. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows and is currently appearing in his own Radio 4 show on Tuesdays at 6.30 - 'Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better'. He may sound a bit annoying but he's not a bad man.
He is now trying to make a small but interesting difference to the worrying state of the planet, through his new project myspace.com/crapattheenvironment. Click on these:
Who I'd like to meet: Derren Brown. And anyone who is CRAP AT THE ENVIRONMENT and wouldn't mind being a bit less crap.
Hey mark, just listening to some archive...Makes the world substantially better on BB7...(The Lust edition)...very informative and hillarious)...Cheers again for your work and for the infectious smileyitis that I have succumbed to as a result of listening...
Just to re-iterate the Facebook communique (that really doesn't look right without an accent of some sort)... Great "do" at the Tobacco Factory... Thanks :-)
Happy to be residing in Sea Mills but not overly reliant on public transport....
Good luck down under
Px
big fan - have seen your show many times!! Definately gonna catch you live ASAP, cause quite frankly - that Nikki Webster just doesn't do it for us anymore!
Anyhew just letting other comedy lovers know , hope to see you at the ALL NEW Shambles Live in April (tiks just went on sale - there is a link below) - it'll be a heap of fun - and IT'S STARTED SO be sure to prebook so you're guaranteed a seat. And we will make fun of small people... Cheers The Shambles
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Mark Mark ya Legend! I hope all is shiney and sunny with you? if not, this will make it so! my bestest pal who's funnier than that bad guy getting bummed by the gorilla in Trading Places ;)
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