A Millione love song
Thank you for the ongoing personal data (in ‘Breasts!’) and revelations about your ‘firsts’ (‘What Else Is New?’) and requests for tickets (yesterday). All these are being processed/enjoyed quietly/made into graphs as we speak.
Today I did many interviews to promote my tour, and tomorrow I will do many more. Some of them go well, when people have done a bit of preparation; some go badly, when they’re trying to blag it after 10 seconds on Youtube. Good interviews tend to include questions about We Need Answers, my books, and anything about non-comic matters to flatter my ego by giving me a sense of being a well-rounded person. Bad interviews begin with ‘so, how did you get into comedy?’ Good and bad interviews alike ask about the 24-hour shows. I’ve described them four times today. I suppose if you insist on doing a 24-hour show, you must expect people to ask about it for the rest of time. Next time someone asks ‘so how do you go to the toilet?’ I’m tempted to give them a really graphic description and see how long the silence lasts.
Most of the interviews tomorrow are regional – look out for me on Peter Rowell’s Radio Bristol show in the afternoon, Bristolians – but one of them is Nemone on 6Music, so, well, if you want to hear my voice tomorrow, tune in to that lady’s show. It’s worth listening to the whole thing, actually. You’ll hear cutting-edge but not inpenetrable music. And then I’ll pop up.
I was going to quickly tell you about an ethically sound type of sparkling wine. Want to hear about an ethically sound type of sparkling wine? Bingo. It is called Millione. Every time you buy it, a quid goes to build schools in Sierra Leone. It is also tasty, and I don’t even really like sparkling wine. It’s pink wine, but not too sweet. If you go on this website – http://www.oneinamillione.com - you can read about it, and see a video of me endorsing it by swigging loads of the stuff and mumbling about charity.
I don’t normally use this blog to bang on about commerical products of any kind, but, well, this is charity and it is a very good cause, it really is. I’m all in favour of things which allow you to support a good cause while getting pissed. So, see this as my regular blog being hijacked by one of those telemarketing channels, but a telemarketing channel that purely existed to do good in the world.
And now listen. Tomorrow this blog will be posted EARLY (in the morning). It will be one of those occasional blogs where you get to help dictate the course of my career by voting for what I should do. I won’t say any more than that, but if you find yourself at present thinking ‘shit, the blog is nearly over, can’t hold out till the next one’, it is ALREADY NOT LONG TO WAIT. Brace yourself. Check at midday tomorrow. Thank you. Goodnight.
Posted by Rachael on September 30, 2010
Charitable wine almost makes me wish I drank alcohol. If I did you would have sold it to me.
Posted by Laurs on September 29, 2010
I’m looking forwayd to the midday blog, it’ll give me something to concentrate on for after my scary lesson observation by the deputy head and my head of faculty with a not very good class. I’m hoping to be classed as an outstanding teacher today, but I fear it will all go wrong… so yeah, a midday blog will be my treat after the wretched event!
Posted by Laura on September 29, 2010
I was quite excited by ethical fizz until you mentioned it was pink. Yuck. That stuff makes me puke, even if I only drink a couple of glasses.
I do love the idea that you think midday is early.
Posted by ChrisB on September 29, 2010
Thanks for the support for Millione, Mark. The launch of the wine went very well last week and we have just about raised enough to get started on our first two schools in the coming months!
Cheers.
Posted by Phill on September 29, 2010
I agree with Josh – I think it would be great to do a Watsonian interview Mark, although unfortunately I can’t think of any questions as good as Josh’s
I checked the BBC 6 website to see what time Nemone’s show is on. It says on the schedule: “With comedian and broadcaster Mark Watson.” I didn’t realise you were a ‘broadcaster’, Mark, whatever a ‘broadcaster’ actually is! (a television transmitter aerial, perhaps?!) I think they should change it to ‘comedian and writer’, but still. Maybe you can correct them when the show’s on…
Posted by Tibbs on September 29, 2010
I look forward to trying to (hopefully) tracking down your interviews. And if swigging wine was a major component of all charity endorsement, I’m sure lots more people would do it! That may be something for other charities to look into…
I have to wake up before 6 tomorrow morning (not entirely by choice), which I believe corresponds to about noon in the UK, so that works out quite nicely! Although it won’t be so nice if checking this blog makes me late for work; I will have to watch out for that.
Posted by Carl on September 29, 2010
I don’t want to be rude, but I don’t want to comment on the blog’s content today.
I just want to say: bravo on the title of today’s blog. We often over look it. But today’s is fantastic.
Good effort.
Posted by Mariam on September 29, 2010
Misha’s right, Mark. Midday isn’t early! Still, musn’t look a gift-comedian in the mouth (er, blog?)
Posted by Sarah on September 29, 2010
Does a midday blog post mean we should be on the #MWblogwatch from 11:30am rather than 11:30pm tomorrow?
I look forward to finding out what it’s about!
Posted by issey on September 28, 2010
Already changing my plans so i can listen to you on nemones show tomorrow. You don’t need to know that my day is empty…
Posted by Anji on September 28, 2010
When you said early I was worried how early, having just landed back from holiday I’m not sure early and tomorrow are words I’d like to be put together. But midday is fine!
I wanted to use the journey down the M5 to catch up on the week I’ve missed but a) my phone is stuck at a week ago and is taking for ever to load the newer blogs and b) I then see some have 60 comments and my eyes are fighting sleep as it is so I figure I shall use some time catching up tomorrow!
Oh god, I’ve just changed the word catching 3 times, there are bound to be other mistakes. Sorry.
Posted by Anna Lowman on September 28, 2010
I look forward to the blog, sounds exciting. But then, I’ll be at a conference about digital marketing techniques for most of tomorrow so it’s all relative. (That’s facetious, it genuinely does sound exciting.)
Posted by Kathryn on September 28, 2010
I’ll use the blog to bribe myself into doing some work tomorrow morning. Otherwise I’ll never finish the Faerie Queene. (yes, I know I complained about it last week. It is the bane of my existence.)
I’m still at the stage of not really liking wine. I have been told that university will change this.
Posted by Josh on September 28, 2010
I think we should interview you, we’d be brilliant.
If we all donated a few questions, the result would be the best interview anyone has ever given / received.
“Has any of your work ever placed you in mortal peril?”
“Have you ever tried including subliminal messages in your novels?”
“How much would you have to be paid before you would eat a bucket of soil?”
Posted by lisan66 on September 28, 2010
Is it stragne that because I’m so tired and the night is dragging in, I was convinced it was later than it actually is and was panicking that you hadn’t posted yet?
And midday isn’t early really….can we wait until one to dictate the course of your career? I’m in a lab until then!
Posted by Katie on September 28, 2010
I will be in a 4 hour Psychology tutorial tomorrow at 12. Maybe I’ll just abandon it half way through claiming that it’s a matter of life and death…?
Posted by Sam on September 28, 2010
First comment?
We still getting to choose a topic if we get here first, if so can I ask you to talk about music again, Belle and Sebastian in particular, your thoughts on them etc.
I shall be here at midday.
Bye
Posted by Misha on September 28, 2010
Midday isn’t early Watson, and i’m a student.
That wine sounds good though, although I suspect I should drink the nice bottle of red hiding on my shelf first. I say hiding, it’s only hiding from my flatmates. Just in case.
Anyway, onwards and upwards, i’ll hopefully catch nemones show whilst biscuit making tomorrow.