Taskmaster star Mark Watson, 41, on being told he’s going to die at 78, the difficulty of writing a film for Toni Collette and being a comic dad.January is a cheerless month at times. Many people might feel that we could do without a January and February altogether given that the past 18 months has been somewhat like a permanent winter. I suppose I’m offering a better form of escape from the gloom than most things on offer in your specific town on that specific night.A worrying amount of time has passed.