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Mark Watson, the Comedian

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General Info

  • 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)

  • Website

    myspace.com/crapattheenvironment

  • Bio

    '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.




  • Members



    NZ International Comedy Festival website

  • Influences

    My wife.

Blurbs

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: .. ..
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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.

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Hometown: London
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
  • Children: Someday
  • Smoke / Drink: No / Yes
  • Education: College graduate

Schools

  • Bristol Grammar School

    • Bristol, United Kingdom
    • Graduated: 1998
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Other
    1991 to 1998

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