1. Joe Lycett began performing stand-up in 2009 and won the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year the same year.
39 Facts About Joe Lycett
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Joe Lycett has appeared on TV shows including Live at the Apollo, Taskmaster, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats, QI, as the announcer on Saturday BBC One show Epic Win, the narrator for Ibiza Weekender and as the presenter on BBC Two's The Great British Sewing Bee and Channel 4's Joe Lycett's Got Your Back and Late Night Lycett.
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In February 2020, Joe Lycett briefly changed his name by Deed Poll to "Hugo Boss" as part of a protest against the fashion brand of the same name.
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Joe Lycett is recognised as one of Britain's most high-profile queer or pansexual men, and has partaken in advocacy for the LGBTQ community on many occasions.
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In 2015, while performing in York, Joe Lycett was issued with a parking ticket for parking illegally in a taxi rank.
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Joe Lycett bemoaned being investigated by the police over a joke, but was happy to recount his enjoyment from repeating the joke, which he regarded as one of his best, in his messages to the police.
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Joe Lycett has co-written narration on ITV2 shows The Magaluf Weekender and Ibiza Weekender.
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Joe Lycett featured on Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled Christmas Special with Jason Manford, Rev Richard Coles, and Jo Joyner.
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Joe Lycett starred as one of the contestants in the fourth series of Taskmaster with Mel Giedroyc, Hugh Dennis, Lolly Adefope and Noel Fielding and has made several guest appearances on Sunday Brunch in the absence of one of the regular hosts.
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On 12 February 2019, Joe Lycett took over as the new presenter on the fifth series of BBC Two's The Great British Sewing Bee.
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Lycett started presenting his consumer show Joe Lycett's Got Your Back, which was branded a "sexy Watchdog" in 2019 with help from various guests and Mark Silcox.
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Joe Lycett describes the show as "a cross between Rogue Traders and RuPaul's Drag Race".
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On 4 September 2022, Joe Lycett appeared as a panellist on the debut issue of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
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In March 2023 Joe Lycett began hosting the comedy variety show Late Night Joe Lycett that includes brief interviews with celebrity guests and comedy segments.
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Linda is shown operating a camera whilst vision of cats playing in a field comes across the live feed for the show as well as being shown to have urinated on the set beside the stage where Joe Lycett is speaking to guests.
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Joe Lycett was known as "the resident news hound" on Josh Widdicombe's XFM radio show, which was broadcast on Saturday mornings.
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On 17 August 2019 and 26 October 2019, Joe Lycett stood in for Rylan Clark-Neal on Rylan on Saturday on BBC Radio 2.
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In late November 2023, Joe Lycett launched a "fake" podcast, Turdcast, about "celebrities talking shit," and recorded an episode with Gary Lineker.
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Joe Lycett set up an inflatable toilet dubbed "the Turdis" at Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock for the launch, though this was cancelled seemingly "due to a technical issue," with the alleged waste from the toilet spilling into the Mersey.
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Joe Lycett later released a statement revealing that "it was fake sewage, from a fake toilet, to promote a fake podcast".
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Joe Lycett criticised water companies in England for discarding "billions of litres of real sewage" into bodies of water, and announced an hour-long Channel 4 special, Joe Lycett vs Poo, about the water companies.
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Joe Lycett asserts that Hugo Boss, the company, reported the incident to the Metropolitan Police.
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On 13 November 2022, Joe Lycett released a video criticising David Beckham for his multimillion-pound sponsorship deal promoting the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar due to the Gulf state's stance on LGBT rights.
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In December 2022, against the backdrop of his criticising David Beckham's sponsorship deal, the tabloid newspaper The Sun published an article detailing the fact that Joe Lycett had himself previously performed at Doha, Qatar, in 2015.
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The paper suggested that Joe Lycett had engaged in "hypocrisy" by performing in Qatar.
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Joe Lycett responded on Twitter, admitting that he had accepted a fee to perform in Doha adding that he does not "have the perfect hindsight and spotless morality of, to pick a completely random example, The Sun newspaper".
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Joe Lycett is a self-taught painter and has had his artwork exhibited.
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In 2009, Joe Lycett was awarded that year's Chortle Student Comedian of the Year award and was the winner of Bath New Act Competition.
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Joe Lycett was runner-up in the 2009 Laughing Horse New Act of the Year, and a finalist in the 2011 BBC New Comedy Awards.
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In 2012, his debut stand-up show Some Joe Lycett Hot was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
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In October 2023, Joe Lycett won The Comedy Award at the 2023 Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards.
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In March 2024, Joe Lycett was awarded a BAFTA Television Award for his evening chat show, Late Night Joe Lycett.
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Joe Lycett frequently refers to his bisexuality and pansexuality as part of his stand-up routines.
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In 2021, Joe Lycett was described by Unicorn magazine as "probably the most high-profile pansexual man in Britain today".
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On 25 October 2024, Joe Lycett announced the birth of his first son with "Denise" at Birmingham Women's Hospital.
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Joe Lycett has spoken openly about his struggles with his mental health.
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Joe Lycett is known to suffer from anxiety and panic attacks.
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In May 2019, Joe Lycett arranged for the Birmingham Lord Mayor Cllr Yvonne Mosquito to officially open his kitchen extension.
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Joe Lycett has been a supporter of West Bromwich Albion FC since 2012.