People I generally like- Mark Watson

I thought I would start a little, probably irregular, series about people I like and why. I know these things do come out in the blog anyway, but some people I won't always be able to talk about regularly as I won't be seeing them live for a while and they have done so much stuff that it just won't get mentioned. This is certainly the case with Mark, which is why I'm starting with him.




He is really funny, which is the case with most of the people I'm writing about, but he has quite a different style to many comedians. He seems more honest about his failures and how he feels about him self and his worries; this allows to be more relateable and seem more human, which some comedians find difficult as they're usually complaining about things and slagging people off in general. He is perfect live as the comedy builds up and is able to suggest random things, like chasing a person that had to leave early at one of the Bottle Rocket shows last year for example.


The other fact that makes him awesome is that, although he is only just turned 30 this year, he has done a ridiculous amount of things. He has done 3 Edinburgh shows, a few 24 hour shows, a theatre-ish project, had a few series on radio, TV, written 2 novels with a 3rd being released this year, written for TV, done loads of touring and generally gone global. I think a lot of comedians who have been around much longer than him would be pleased with the amount he's done in probably double the time. He has become a sort of environmental crusader as well, doing Al Gore's course on the environment and writing another book about his experiences. This all makes him made of win.


I'll do a proper post about Richard Herring, and parallels between the 2 may be seen, considering they have both being kinda revolutionaries in comedy.