Mark Watson
Mark Watson

Mark Watson

  • 41 years-old
  • English
  • Writer, stand-up comedian and author

Known for: Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better (Host / Presenter), We Need Answers (Host / Presenter), Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life (Host / Presenter)

  1. 17th December via Chortle: Omicron claims more comedy shows
Mark Watson
Mark Watson is an English writer, stand-up comedian and author.

More information

Born
Wednesday 13th February 1980
Nationality
English

Awards

Leicester Comedy Festival Awards 2021
Liberty Award: Winner (No More Jockeys Live/TripleCeePee)
Chortle Awards 2021
Legend(s) Of Lockdown: Winner
Dave Funniest Joke Of The Fringe Award 2016
Main Award: Nominee
Dave Funniest Joke Of The Fringe Award 2014
Main Award: Nominee
Dave Funniest Joke Of The Fringe Award 2011
Main Award: Nominee
Chortle Awards 2010
Best Full-Length Solo Show: Nominee
Chortle Awards 2008
Award For Innovation: Nominee
Chortle Awards 2007
Best Compere: Nominee
Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2006
Panel Prize: Winner
Chortle Awards 2005
Breakthrough Act: Nominee
Chortle Awards 2005
Award For Innovation: Winner
Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2005
Best Newcomer: Nominee
ThreeWeeks Editors' Awards 2005
Editors' Award: Winner
So You Think You're Funny? 2002
Main Prize: Runner-up
Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2001
Best Newcomer: Nominee

Credits

Year Production Role
2022 QI - Series S
  1. E11 - Saints And Sinners
 Guest
2021 BBC New Comedy Award Host / Presenter
2021 No More Jockeys - 2021 Christmas Specials Self
2021 No More Jockeys - Training Game Self
2021 The Exploding Library Self
2021 Leamington Spa Comedy Festival Self
2021 Winchester Comedy Festival Self
2021 Mark Watson: This Can't Be It Self
2021 Mark Watson: This Can't Be It Writer
2021 Mark Watson: This Can't Be It (Tour Preview) Self
2021 Mark Watson: Your Time Self
2021 Mark Watson: AMA Self
2021 Mark Watson: Reading Festival Self
2021 Mark Watson: Decade Self
2021 Mark Watson: The House Self
2021 No More Jockeys, Live On Stage Self
2021 Latitude Self
2021 Cambridge Comedy Festival Self
2021 Marlowe Comedy Weekender Self
2021 Dodo Joe's Dad (Voice)
2021 No More Jockeys - Set 4 Self
2021 No More Jockeys - Live Specials 2021 Self
2021 Just A Minute - Series 86 Guest
2021 Who Said That? - Series 2
  1. E6 - Episode 26
 Guest
2021 No More Jockeys - Set 3 Self
2020 No More Jockeys - Christmas & New Year Specials Self
2020 The Thirteen Million Club Producer
2020 Breaking The News - Series 17
  1. E7 - Episode Seven
  2. Special - Corona Free Breaking the News
 Guest
2020 Guessable? - Series 1
  1. E3 - Episode Three
 Guest
2020 No More Jockeys - Set 2 Self
2020 Fighting Talk - Series 18
  1. E12 - Episode Twelve
  2. E26 - Episode Twenty Six
 Guest
2020 No More Jockeys - Set 1 Self
2020 Bristol Comedy Garden Self
2020 QI - Series R
  1. E4 - Restaurants
  2. Special - Highlights Special
  3. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2020 Wells Comedy Festival Self
2020 The Machynlleth Comedy Festival - 2020
  1. E3 - Stand Up... In My House
 Guest
2020 Isolation Song Contest Announcer
2020 Who Said That? - Series 1
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. Special - Live from The Watsonathon
 Guest
2020 Stuart Goldsmith's Infinite Sofa
  1. E9 - Mach Special
 Guest
2020 Mark Watson And Matt Winning: Seriously, Though, The Planet Self
2020 QI - Sport Relief Special
  1. Sport Relief Special
 Guest
2020 Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life - Series 3 Writer
2020 Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life - Series 3 Host / Presenter
2020 Top Of The Bill Writer
2020 Top Of The Bill Host / Presenter
2020 Leicester Comedy Festival Self
2020 Vault Festival Self
2019 Winchester Comedy Festival Self
2019 Livewire Festival Self
2019 Elephant In The Room - Series 1
  1. E7 - Episode Seven
 Guest
2019 Mark Watson: How You Can Almost Win Self
2019 Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let's Hope for the Best (Work in Progress) Self
2019 Mark Watson: The Infinite Show Self
2019 Stand Up for Your Planet Self
2019 Mark Watson Shouldn't Even Be Doing This. Self
2019 Mark Watson and Sofie Hagen will each do 30 minutes of not-really-jokes-yet Self
2019 Werewolf: Live - Charity Spectacular! Guest
2019 Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Host / Presenter
2019 BBC New Comedy Award - 2019 Host / Presenter
2019 Big Funny Fest Self
2019 Coaches Writer
2019 Coaches Malcolm
2019 Crash Course Guest
2018 Mark Watson: The Infinite Show Self
2018 Roast Battle - Series 2
  1. E3 - Episode Three
 Self
2018 Fighting Talk - Series 16
  1. E22 - Episode Twenty Two
 Guest
2018 Mark Watson: The Infinite Show Self
2018 Mark Watson: How You Can Almost Win (Work in Progress) Self
2018 Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Host / Presenter
2018 BBC New Comedy Award - 2018 Host / Presenter
2017 The Great Xmas Rant Self
2017 Taskmaster - Series 5 Self
2017 Mark Watson's MW Tour Self
2017 Fighting Talk - Series 15
  1. E9 - Episode Nine
  2. Special - Six Nations 2018 special
 Guest
2017 Mark Watson: This Is Not A Show Yet Self
2017 Mark Watson's Festival of Bad Ideas Self
2017 Mark Watson: I'm Not Here Self
2017 2017 Chortle Student Comedy Awards Final Self
2017 Tonight At The London Palladium - Series 4
  1. E3 - Episode Three
 Guest
2017 Fighting Talk - Series 14
  1. E17 - Episode Seventeen
 Guest
2016 Mark Watson: I'm Not Here Self
2016 Mark Watson Has Various Problems Cancelled Host / Presenter
2016 Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life - Series 2 Writer
2016 Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life - Series 2 Host / Presenter
2016 BBC New Comedy Award - 2016 Host / Presenter
2016 Mark Watson: I'm Not Here Self
2016 Mark Watson's Edinborolympics Self
2016 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled - Series 4
  1. E9 - Episode Nine
 Guest
2016 Don't Make Me Laugh - Series 2
  1. E6 - Episode Six
 Guest
2015 Fighting Talk - Series 13
  1. E5 - Episode Five
  2. E16 - Episode Sixteen
 Guest
2015 Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Self
2015 Mark Watson: Work in Progress Self
2015 Mark Watson: Flaws Self
2014 Fighting Talk - Series 12
  1. Special - Episode Nineteen
 Guest
2014 Have I Got News For You - Series 48
  1. E9 - Episode Nine
 Guest
2014 The Football's On - Series 2
  1. E16 - Episode Sixteen
 Guest
2014 Comedy Central At The Comedy Store - Series 3
  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. E12 - Episode Twelve
 Guest
2014 Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life - Series 1 Writer
2014 Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life - Series 1 Host / Presenter
2014 Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live - 2014
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Guest
2014 MacAulay And Co - Edinburgh 2014
  1. E5 - Episode Five
 Guest
2014 Mark Watson: Flaws Self
2014 Mark Watson's Comedywealth Games Self
2014 Comedy Gala 2014: In Aid of Waverley Care Self
2014 The Football's On - Series 1
  1. E17 - Episode Seventeen
 Guest
2014 Fighting Talk - Series 11
  1. E34 - Episode Thirty Four
 Guest
2014 Comedy Central At Just For Laughs
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Self
2014 Dara O Briain: School Of Hard Sums - Series 3
  1. E4 - Episode Four
 Guest
2014 Mark Watson Live Writer
2014 Mark Watson Live Host / Presenter
2014 Alan Davies Après-Ski
  1. E3 - Episode Three
 Guest
2013 Fresh From The Fringe - 2013 Host / Presenter
2013 The Museum Of Curiosity - Gallery 6
  1. E1 - Meeting Thirty-One
 Guest
2013 Dara O Briain: School Of Hard Sums - Series 2
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2013 The Unbelievable Truth - Series 11
  1. E3 - Episode Three
  2. E6 - Episode Six
 Guest
2013 The Matt Lucas Awards - Series 2
  1. E3 - Episode Three
  2. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2013 Mock The Week Looks Back At...
  1. E1 - Health
  2. E3 - Education
  3. E4 - Entertainment
  4. E5 - Law And Order
  5. E6 - Science And Technology
  6. E7 - Travel
  7. E8 - Britain
  8. E10 - Food And Drink
 Self (Archive Material)
2012 Fighting Talk - Series 10
  1. E15 - Episode Fifteen
 Guest
2012 BBC New Comedy Award - 2012
  1. E1 - London Semi-Final
 Guest
2012 Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live - 2012
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Guest
2012 Comic Fringes - Series 8
  1. E3 - Club Sandwich
 Writer
2012 Comic Fringes - Series 8
  1. E3 - Club Sandwich
 Narrator
2012 Mark Watson: The Information Self
2012 Mark Watson's Edinborolympics Self
2012 The Graham Norton Show - Series 11
  1. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2012 Mock The Week - Series 11
  1. E4 - 100th Episode
  2. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2012 Chris Moyles' Comedy Empire Self
2012 Eurogeddon: Why England Shouldn't Win Euro 2012 Self
2012 8 Out Of 10 Cats - Series 12
  1. Special - 8 Out Of 10 Cats For Sport Relief
 Guest
2012 The Graham Norton Show - Series 10
  1. E16 - Mark Wahlberg, Minnie Driver, Mark Watson, Christina Perri
 Guest
2012 Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask - Series 1
  1. E3 - Episode Three
 Guest
2012 The Mad Bad Ad Show Team Captain
2012 Late 'N' Live Guide To Comedy Self
2012 Hot Gossip - Series 5
  1. E3 - Episode Three
 Guest
2012 The Unbelievable Truth - Series 8
  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. E5 - Episode Five
 Guest
2011 Odd One In - Series 2
  1. Special - Christmas Special
 Guest
2011 Live At The Apollo - Series 7
  1. E5 - Rich Hall, Andrew Maxwell, Mark Watson
 Guest
2011 Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club - Series 2
  1. E8 - Episode Eight
  2. E9 - Episode Nine
 Guest
2011 Mark Watson's Live Address To The Nation - Series 1 Writer
2011 Mark Watson's Live Address To The Nation - Series 1 Host / Presenter
2011 Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Series 25
  1. E5 - Episode Five
  2. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2011 Fighting Talk - Series 9
  1. E8 - Episode Eight
  2. E18 - Episode Eighteen
  3. E41 - Episode Forty One
 Guest
2011 Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live - 2011
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2011 Mark Watson's 2012 Preview Self
2011 Alex Horne: Taskmaster II Self
2011 Comedy Gala 2011: In Aid of Waverley Care Self
2011 Stand Up For Freedom Self
2011 Improvisation My Dear Mark Watson Host / Presenter
2011 Tim Key's Suspended Sentence Self
2011 Channel 4's Comedy Gala
  1. E2 - Channel 4's Comedy Gala 2011
 Guest
2011 Dave's One Night Stand - Series 2 Host / Presenter
2011 So Wrong It's Right - Series 2
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2011 Mark Watson's Live Address To The Nation - Pilot Host / Presenter
2011 Mark Watson's Live Address To The Nation - Pilot Writer
2011 Comedy Rocks With Jason Manford - Series 1
  1. E5 - Episode Five
 Self
2010 The Comedy Annual
  1. E1 - The Comedy Annual 2010
 Self
2010 Mark Watson Kicks Off Host / Presenter
2010 Fighting Talk - Series 8
  1. E8 - Episode Eight
 Guest
2010 Comedy Central At The Comedy Store - Series 1
  1. E6 - Episode Six
 Guest
2010 Would I Lie To You? - Series 4
  1. E7 - Episode Seven
 Guest
2010 Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live - 2010
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2010 The Horne Section Self
2010 Stand Up For Freedom Self
2010 Mark Watson: Do I Know You? Self
2010 Mark Watson's Unusually Enjoyable Book Launch Self
2010 Hot Gossip - Series 3
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Guest
2010 Stand Up For The Week - Series 1
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Self
2010 You Have Been Watching - Series 2
  1. E6 - Kids' TV Special
 Guest
2010 Channel 4's Alternative Election Night - Channel 4's Alternative Election Night 2010
  1. Channel 4's Alternative Election Night 2010
 Self
2010 The Now Show - The Vote Now Show 2010 Self
2010 A Comedy Roast
  1. E3 - Chris Tarrant
 Self
2010 Channel 4's Comedy Gala
  1. E1 - Channel 4's Comedy Gala 2010
 Guest
2010 Argumental - Series 3
  1. E3 - Episode Three
  2. E5 - Episode Five
 Guest
2010 Mock The Week - Series 8
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2009 Have I Got News For You - Series 38
  1. E9 - Episode Nine
 Guest
2009 A Child's Christmases In Wales Writer
2009 We Need Answers - Series 2 Host / Presenter
2009 Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Series 23
  1. E7 - Episode Seven
 Host / Presenter
2009 Clive Anderson's Chat Room - Series 7 Guest
2009 Fighting Talk - Series 7
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E6 - Episode Six
  3. E19 - Episode Nineteen
  4. E31 - Episode Thirty One
  5. Special - Election Special
 Guest
2009 MacAulay And Co - Edinburgh 2009
  1. E4 - Thursday 13th
 Guest
2009 Yes, It's The Ashes
  1. E6 - Episode Six
 Self
2009 8 Out Of 10 Cats - Series 8
  1. E3 - Episode Three
  2. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2009 Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow - Series 1
  1. E1 - Edinburgh
 Guest
2009 Argumental - Series 2
  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. E12 - Episode Twelve
  3. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2009 We Need Answers - Series 1 Host / Presenter
2009 Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Series 22
  1. Special - Technically, The Best Series Ever
 Self
2008 Have I Got News For You - Series 36
  1. E6 - Episode Six
 Guest
2008 Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Series 22
  1. E9 - Episode Nine
  2. Special - Technically, The Best Series Ever
 Team Captain
2008 Argumental - Series 1
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E8 - Episode Eight
  3. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2008 Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better - Series 2 Writer
2008 8 Out Of 10 Cats - Series 7
  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2008 Sean Lock And Friends At The Fringe
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2008 Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better - Series 2 Host / Presenter
2008 Mock The Week - Series 6
  1. E4 - Episode Four
  2. Special - Highlights Special
  3. Special - Christmas Special
 Guest
2008 8 Out Of 10 Cats - Series 6
  1. E4 - Episode Four
 Guest
2008 Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Series 21
  1. E9 - Episode Nine
 Guest
2007 4 Stands Up - Series 1
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2007 Comedy Shuffle - Series 2
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Host / Presenter
2007 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive - Series 3
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E4 - Episode Four
 Guest
2007 Mock The Week - Series 5
  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. E9 - Episode Nine
  3. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2007 The Lift Writer
2007 The Lift Lift Engineer (Voice)
2007 Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better - Series 1 Writer
2007 Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better - Series 1 Host / Presenter
2007 Comedy Shuffle - Series 1
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Writer
2007 Comedy Shuffle - Series 1
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Guest
2007 Mock The Week - Series 4
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2007 Ed Reardon's Week - Series 3
  1. E4 - The Dig
 Tom
2007 Living With Two People You Like Individually... But Not As A Couple Writer
2006 Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Series 19
  1. E6 - Episode Six
 Guest
2006 Out To Lunch - Series 2 Ensemble Actor
2006 Mock The Week - Series 3
  1. E3 - Episode Three
  2. E4 - Episode Four
  3. Special - Highlights Special
 Guest
2006 Time Trumpet Self
2006 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive - Series 2
  1. E6 - Episode Six
 Guest
2006 The Ultimate Sitcom Self
2005 Political Animal - Edinburgh Festival Special
  1. Edinburgh Festival Special
 Guest
2005 28 Acts In 28 Minutes
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Guest
2003 Spanking New On 7 - Series 1
  1. E4 - Episode Four
 Guest
0000 No More Jockeys - Live Specials 2022 Self
Cambridge Footlights: Far Too Happy Ensemble Actor
We Need Answers Host / Presenter
The Hotel Creator
Mark Watson's Seemingly Impossible 36-Hour Circuit Of The World Self
Mark Watson: 50 Years Before I Die Self

Non-comedy TV and film credits may be found here:
Mark Watson on IMDb

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