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Macaulay And Co [2008]
Madame With An E
Maeve Higgins: Kitten Brides
Magic To Get Girls By
Man Who Knows (Featuring The Magic Skinhead)
Mark Allen's Pet Project
Mark Olver: Ramble On
Mark Watson: All The Thoughts I've Had Since I Was Born
Markus Birdman: Sympathy For The Devil
Martha McBrier: A Wee Bit About A Lot Of Things
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The Meeting
Men With Bananas: We Know What You're Thinking
Mersey Uncut: Comedy Kollective
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Mice Puddings
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Michael McIntyre [2008]
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Mike Wozniak
Miles Jupp: Drifting
Moonfish Rhumba
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Murder Most Improvised

Mark Watson: 50 Years Before Death And The Awful P
Mark Watson's Seemingly Impossible 36-Hour Circuit Of The World
Mark Watson, And His Audience, Write A Novel
Mark Watson: I'm Worried That I'm Starting To Hate Almost Everyone In The World
Mark Watson's Overambitious 24-Hour Show
Rhod Gilbert And Mark Watson Are Stereocomics
The Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award Final
Far Too Happy
Brighton Comedy Festival: Best Of The Fest
Twitter Comedy Night
Mark Watson: Can I Briefly Talk To You About The Point Of Life
Mark Watson's 24 Hour Jamboree To Save The Planet
We Need Answers: The Inaugural Festival Challenge Cup
We Need Answers [2008]
Mark Watson (And Friends) Take Control Of The World In 24 Hours
Mark Watson's Earth Summit
Mark Watson's Last Ever 24 Hour Show
Mark Watson: All The Thoughts I've Had Since I Was Born
Brand new show from if.comeddie winner 2006. Every ticket sold 2005, 2006, 2007. In a really, really big room this year, though.
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Original Review:
The Pleasance Grand is the biggest venue Mark Watson’s ever played – 750 seats to be sold every night for a month. But his hard-earned status as a Fringe favourite means he’s having no trouble filling it. What’s more important is whether his nervy, conversational style will survive in a converted sports hall, and thankfully it does. His everyman likeability, underlined by his habit of starting his shows from within the audience, certainly goes a long way towards making everyone feel like he’s one of us. He gently mocks the whole idea of playing such a room, worrying that the occasion requires a big rock and roll introduction or grateful curtain-call, but that such flamboyance just isn’t him. It’s typical of his fretful attitude to life, forever over-analysing trivial things, letting petty annoyances niggle away at him. That’s great for creating comedy, not so good for avoiding a heart attack, as Watson discovered when he had a health scare last year. His doctor advised him to avoid stress, and since his job is largely devoid of it, the only thing he had to cut back on is getting wound up by life’s petty irritations. To take things – ironically enough for a comic – less seriously. But that’s easier said than done when Watson encounters drunken hen parties, traumatic train trips and, late-night revellers spoiling his Travelodge stays. Watson performs with a rare mixture of hyperactivity and anxiety. He has a sort of doleful incredulity, in which he knows so many things are rubbish, but gets overexcited in telling everyone about it. He makes it easy for us share his passionate dislike of his targets, through eloquence and passion. Not that he is a comic who fervently moans that everything is shit. Watson has some sterling one-liners in this fast-paced hour, and the ability spin hugely entertaining little yarns around his observations. Some intimacy is inevitably lost once you break the 400-seater venues, but Watson has a unique intensity that still drags everyone along with him for the witty ride. Reviewed by: Steve Bennett |
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An intimate venue at the Stockton Arc and Mark Watson made the night a total success. Spending 10 minutes before the show wandering around the theatre happily chatting with the audience makes him a friendly, open character as well as seriously funny one. At 8 o'clock he walked down the theatre trying to catch everyone's attention; not on stage but standing near the 4th row. He gave a full-hearted welcome and but was worried about his entrance, saying it was a boring start to the show. He suggested he should hide which everyone found really childishly fun. Having tried stairs and the speakers, a man suggested Mark should hide under his seat. Mark was open for anything and shifted past 10 people to hide under this man's seat and then shouted: 'Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mark Watson! Excuse me mate, can I just get past.' Hilarious 1st half getting the crowd warmed up with his stories about a sausage roll and his family before his stress-related health scare. The 2nd is him saying how he tried to avoid stress and how afraid he is to speak up for himself, from being touched by a man near Cardiff station and hearing a sex song while in the car with his dad. Not a bad crowd and Watson worked them to his advantage. True though, you get the full effect of Watson's comedy from the more intimate venues. Nevertheless, a great comedian. Well worth a watch. Sean Prower, March 2009 |
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Mark can be very funny, with an engaging personality but I think Pleasance Grand may be a bit big for him. Ian, August 2008 |
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For whatever reason I'd not caught up with Mark Watson before this year. I'd seen him on Mock The Week etc and was thoroughly looking forward to this... and it was ordinary. He worked the audience up - but it came across as the staple of a good compere rather than someone now playing the big gigs. His hangdog Welsh miserabilism was funny without being pant wetting. I can't say he'd run out of ideas because I've not seen an hour of his before but the show was decidedly stretched - 3 out of 5 and only because it was half price Andy, August 2008 |
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I cannot believe this man is a comedian.My memories from the show are based around a ranting Welshman talking about his experience of traveling around Britain on trains! Managed to stay and watch around 40 mins of the show (due to the fact that we we were in the middle of our row of seats), however, it soon became unbearable and my partner and I decided we had to leave. No offence to this comedian but I have never seen a show as bad as this in my life - i think the only thing I could possibly compare it to would be a film I saw a while back with no plot what so ever and subtitles. Nicola, August 2008 |
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We saw Mark Watson at the Arts Theatre in London at a try-out for his 2008 Fringe show. He was on great form that night, a real avalanche of laughs. He's funny, endearing and has the best delivery in the business. Worth every penny of flying over from Holland to see him perform. Wilfred Berkhof, July 2008 |

