Last year, Mark Watson was in the Daily Telegraph’s ‘50 Funniest Comedians Of The 21st Century’. Not long afterwards, he feared for his life when a flight in Australia developed engine failure. The pilot got it down safely, and we’ll never know who would have got a promotion from number 51. But it was another reminder of the frailty of life for the Taskmaster runner-up, author and accidental YouTube phenomenon – if such a reminder was needed.