Mark Watson the Comedian

Some more information about the Apple Store launch of my show on iTunes, which (let’s just remind ourselves) prefaces the official DVD launch, and which (let’s also remind ourselves) I am more or less clinically obsessed with the job of promoting. This is a genuine comment from yesterday, by the way. I may be obsessed but I’m not yet at the stage of making up ‘questions’ just so I can answer them. Madonna’s people might make sure talk-show hosts feed her specific questions so she can plug things, but I am not Madonna: I don’t even know why people keep confusing the two of us.

So:

I was wondering: I think you said something about someone comedic asking the requested questions for inclusion on the DVD extra. Has that been and done, or is that what’s happening at this ‘DVD Launch’. Or both? Or neither? Just curious. And if I haven’t imagined it, are we allowed to know who said questioner is?

Well, the answer is both, but I haven’t been very clear about it. Basically, we got loads of good questions (as well as a handful of slightly unnerving ones). We chose about 10 for the DVD, where they are posed by Mr Alex Horne as part of an extra. These questions include ‘what was your worst gig?’, ‘have you bounced on a trampoline as an adult?’, ‘what’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve done while drunk?’ and ‘what’s the best time you’ve had in a forest?’ – if any of those was yours, you should congratulate yourself.

But there were lots more good ones left, so I’m going to pick twenty-odd of them and address them at the actual Apple launch. There, they will be posed by Boyd Hilton, who always hosts these events. Who is Boyd Hilton? Well, he’s that guy at the top of the blog. He is a TV reviewer and you see him on the telly and so forth. I met him once and he was very nice. The picture shows him with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. I’ve no idea why they are together. It was the most fun picture available when I Googled him.

And at this event, on top of what is already a heap of questions, there’ll be a chance to ask your own, if you never sent one in originally. So all in all it’s fair to say I will have been well and truly interrogated by the time this iTunes and DVD launch occurs. Which is a month away, now. God, you must be excited! If only excited at the prospect that I will then shut up about all this.

Tomorrow: will we see that Very Late Review? Or I will audaciously try to extend what is already an impressive streak of mentioning-my-merchandise?