Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life
Comedy of the Week
BBC
3.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Multi-award winning comedian and author Mark Watson continues his probably doomed, but luckily funny quest to make sense of the human experience.
This series is about time - the days of the week, the stages of our existence - and the way we use it to make sense of things. We make our way through the working week, tonight considering 'hump day' - Wednesday. Wednesday's child, famously, is full of woe. Both Mark and Esther are in this category. Is the woe a real issue or merely a fairy tale? What is the bleakest joke ever told by a four-year-old? And what would Thomas Hardy make of this series?
Expect jokes, observations and interactions galore as Mark is aided, and sometimes obstructed, by the sardonic musical excellence of Flo & Joan. There's also a hand-picked comedy colleague each week - here, we welcome Esther Manito.
Producer: Lianne Coop
An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | I sense it's that point in the week where we need something funny. |
| 0:09.0 | You've got a blink in your eye. |
| 0:10.8 | What is it a tear? |
| 0:11.8 | Luckily I have just a thing for you. |
| 0:14.0 | It's comedy of the week from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Athenica Blenu. |
| 0:18.1 | You're a host and guide to the very best city stuff on the radio. |
| 0:21.9 | Here's this week's show. |
| 0:23.4 | I want to... |
| 0:24.4 | Mark Watson talks, speddy, da, da, da, da, Mark Watson talks, a bit. |
| 0:30.8 | Mark Watson talks, a bit of our life. |
| 0:34.9 | Mostly his. |
| 0:40.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.3 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:44.7 | Welcome to a new series of Mark Watson talks, a bit about life. |
| 0:47.5 | The last series was recorded here early in 2020, |
| 0:50.5 | and pretty soon after that, |
| 0:51.5 | the pandemic brought our entire civilization to its knees. |
| 0:54.3 | You can imagine it's a relief to be back during this. |
| 0:56.5 | Things have been fairly hard for live comedians. |
| 0:58.2 | I'd say for the entire time since I was last on this stage, |
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