Mark Watson: How You Can Almost Win
Fri 28 May 2021
In 2017, Mark Watson was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls. It wasn't really for him.
In 2017, Mark Watson - a man prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem - was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls. It really wasn’t for him at all because his favourite things include safety, comfort, food and not being scared and miserable. But the experience changed the shambolic comedian for the better, and now he's written a sort of motivational talk about what it taught him. But still with jokes.
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