After spending last year being cluster-bombed with yoghurt on 'Taskmaster' and half-killed by Bear Grylls, Mark Watson is going to be returning with a UK national tour doing what he's best at: being indoors.

Inspired by the "basically shocking" state of the world his children are growing up in, and a genuine, urgent desire to do something about it, Watson’s new show is about empathy.

As scrawny and impassioned as ever, Mark tears into his topic with his notoriously high joke and rant-per-minute rate.

As the title suggests, in this show he takes his unusually collaborative approach one step further, aiming for an evening which will last longer in the mind than the hour the audience spend with him.

Mark is one of the country’s most beloved and critically acclaimed live comedians, and has had a long and notable Fringe career since he was nominated for best newcomer at the 2005 Perrier Awards, before being awarded the 2006 if.comedy panel prize for performing one of his now-legendary marathon stand-up shows. Away from Edinburgh, he’s taken home the Time Out Critics Choice Award, been nominated for a Barry Award from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, as well as winning best show at both Sydney and Adelaide.

Last year saw Mark write songs, hurl coconuts and beg piggy-backs as part of Dave’s BAFTA-winning Taskmaster.

In a less pleasant TV engagement, he lost almost three stone and faced a crippling lifelong phobia during a much talked-about stint on The Island with Bear Grylls (C4).

Mark has also regularly appeared on multiple BBC panel shows, such as Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Mock the Week, Would I Lie To You and Have I Got News For You.

He has performed stand-up on BBC 1’s Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Channel 4’s Comedy Gala and was the star of Dave TV’s Road to Rio, as well as the host of BBC 4’s We Need Answers.

He’s won Celebrity Mastermind and Celebrity Pointless and even once dressed up as a badger for Sky One show Wild Things.

As well as his TV and live work Mark has been a Radio 4 mainstay for a decade, with his various series Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life, Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better and Mark Watson’s Live Address To The Nation.

For the past two years he’s hosted the final of the BBC New Comedy Award – one of the only comedy shows on the network to go out live.

On top of his comedy stardom Mark has seven books under his belt. Since last Edinburgh, his graphic novel Dan and Sam has been optioned as a feature film by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and is now in development.

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