Mark Watson: Edinburgh Preview

An Edinburgh preview performance from Edinburgh Festival Award Winner and Time Out Critic’s Choice, Mark Watson. His recent TV credits include Taskmaster (Dave) and Bear Grylls’ Celebrity Island (Channel 4).

Mark has been the face of shows such as BBC Four’s We Need Answers and BBC Radio 4’s Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better. He has also appeared on Mock The Week, Celebrity Pointless, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You?, Live At The Apollo and Channel 4’s Comedy Gala. He is currently recording another series of his hit Radio 4 show Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life.

In August 2016, Mark performed his latest show I’m Not Here at the Edinburgh Festival, and then went on to tour it around the UK from September – December 2016. The show has received 4 and 5 star reviews.

Not only a Stand-Up, Mark has written six novels: Bullet Points (2004), A Light-Hearted Look At Murder (2007), Eleven (2010), The Knot (2012), Hotel Alpha (2014), and The Place That Didn’t Exist (2016).

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“Terrifyingly funny”
The Times
“Belly laugh brilliant… The audience was weeping with laughter”
Time Out

Mark Watson will be supported by Helen Bauer who was runner up in the Max Turner Prize 2017, a Semi Finalist in So You Think You’re Funny 2016 and Regional Finalist in Funny Women 2017. In 2018, Helen is heading to the Edinburgh Festival as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve.

Part of the Shepherd’s Bush Comedy Festival presented by Hammersmith and Fulham Council and PBJ Management.
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