Mark Watson
- 44 years old
- English
- Writer, stand-up comedian, author and producer
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I Can't Sing: why X Factor musical was voted off
The popularity of Simon Cowell's TV talent shows peaked a couple of years ago. Harry Hill and Steve Brown's show was staged too late - and felt conflicted. We were asked to laugh at the vacuousness of it all yet also care about the characters.
Mark Watson, The Guardian, 28th April 2014Radio Times review
One of the biggest annual events in the international comedy calendar, the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, Canada has played host to virtually every major comedian of the last 30 years.
In the first of two exclusive compilations for Comedy Central - older viewers will remember the days when Just For Laughs found its natural home on Channel 4 - stars including Kristen Schaal, Russell Howard, Mark Watson and the great Eddie Izzard take to the stages of Montreal's grand Place des Arts and the funkier Club Soda.
For better or worse, an interesting aspect of this coverage is seeing how internationally unknown British comedians fare in front of a foreign audience. Izzard is an established star, but will the lightweight whimsy of Howard and Watson survive the transatlantic crossing?
Paul Whitelaw, Radio Times, 22nd March 2014Mark Watson's favourite TV
Comedian, sports pundit and novelist on his TV highs and lows. Includes Sherlock, Friends and Made in Chelsea.
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 10th March 2014Mark Watson's favourite TV
The comedian, sports pundit and novelist on his TV highs and lows.
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 8th March 2014Mark Watson and Henning Wehn for World Cup travel show
Mark Watson and Henning Wehn are to star in Kia's Road To Rio, a six part travel series for Dave linked in with the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
British Comedy Guide, 11th December 2013Acts for Greenwich Comedy Festival 2013 revealed
Alexei Sayle, Mark Watson and David O'Doherty will be headline acts in this year's Greenwich Comedy Festival, it has been announced.
The Wharf, 20th September 2013Review: Funny Way To Be Comedy Gala
Headliner Mark Watson delivered an accomplished forty minute set to round off the gala; it's the icing on the cake for a special night that shouldn't have happened but did.
Andrew Dipper, Giggle Beats, 8th September 2013Latitude review: Mark Watson
He realises comedy and tragedy are close bedfellows, and is brilliantly, darkly, fully when frankly describing his own struggles with sobriety - such as the strain of enduring things that, tipsy, he would have let slide, allowing for fruitful strand of observational comedy through the prism of intolerance.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2013Daniel Kitson signed up for Paul Sinha's anti-violence gig
Daniel Kitson, Mark Watson and Ed Byrne are all signed up for a special anti-violence gig.
Andrew Mickel, Such Small Portions, 28th June 2013Interview: Mark Watson
"I always like to go to places for the first time; it's a new experience for me and the audience," he tells Radio Teesdale's Peter Dixon, in a candid interview about comedy, that long-lost Welsh accent, writing a sitcom, leaving Edinburgh behind and more.
Peter Dixon, Giggle Beats, 22nd June 2013