COMEDIAN Mark Watson’s 13-year-old son just got a phone and his 70-year-old dad has been through the most frightening experience of his life.

And both a dad and a kid himself, in the midpoint of his life, the Taskmaster star, multiple award-winner and Fringe legend returns to Monmouth’s Savoy to consider the search for meaning that we’re all on, with or without Google.

The show has already enjoyed sell-out runs at the Melbourne Comedy Festival Down Under and the recent Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and plaudits for ‘a comedian at the top of his game’ have flowed thick and fast.

His new show Search is about the tsunami of info already existing in the world and how he has been superseded as the fount of all knowledge for his son, after giving the teenager a smart phone.

Born in Bristol to a Welsh mother and English father, the 43-year-old first class English graduate was a member of the Footlights at Cambridge University and formed part of a revue which was nominated for the Best Newcomer category in the Perrier Comedy Awards at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and also co-directed a revue.

He has appeared regularly at the Fringe, winning the first ever Panel Prize at the if.comeddies in 2006, and has performed marathon shows lasting 24 hours or more.

On TV, he has appeared on the likes of Mock the week and Have I got News for You, and has just released a new book - Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them - which documents the highs and lows of trying to make it as a comic.

Plaudits for his new show include ‘s genius-level comic doing what he does best... magical to watch and just so funny’ in Time Out, and ‘Witty, warm, perfectly judged’ in the Telegraph.

Watson is at the Savoy on Friday, October 13, and tickets priced £20 are available at the box office or via https://monmouth-savoy.co.uk