In addition to his appearances on various radio stations, Lycett has featured as a guest on numerous podcasts, including My Dad Wrote a Porno, [19] SoundCheck Podcast, [20] The Comedian's Comedian with Stuart Goldsmith, [21] and the Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. The comedian Joe Lycett has said he was investigated by the police after an audience member made a complaint about a joke in one of his shows. In a post on Instagram, he revealed that he was asked to explain the context of the gag and that the authorities have now closed the case. One, Ben Kane, is a well-connected local fixer who resembles a young Philip Seymour Hoffman; the other is actual Labour MP Jess Phillips. A slew of student comedy awards followed, while his debut show, Some Lycett Hot, was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

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On another occasion he set up a mucky skip as a restaurant on UberEats, exposing the app’s rigorousness on food hygiene. Suggestions include Original Patty Men, which serves a burger fried inside a Krispy Kreme doughnut; the terrifying-sounding Coffin Works museum; or Birmingham’s Walk Of Stars. Lycett was known as "the resident news hound" on Josh Widdicombe's XFM radio show, which was broadcast on Saturday (and later Sunday) mornings. The fashion brand had been aggressively threatening small companies and charities with legal action if they used the word “Boss” in their name. Producers on the BBC’s brand-new flagship politics show Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg surely knew what was coming when they asked comedian Joe Lycett to appear on their opening show and yet, somehow, he appeared to catch them – and viewers, and even Kuenssberg herself – entirely by surprise.

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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 Lycett had previously performed in Doha, Qatar, in 2015.Lycett, 33, said he hoped the joke amused the investigating officers and that it would stay in his standup routine for the remainder of his UK and Ireland tour. He is also 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. He said that he was drawing attention to the company's use of legal action and cease and desist letters relating to alleged copyright violations against numerous small businesses, including Boss Brewing, for use of the word 'Boss'.

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The 35-year-old British comedian painted a replica of the soaps star’s legendary Then and Now Workout DVD cover on a ceramic. He elevates anti-authoritarian pettiness to the level of absurd art: a story of his overturning a parking ticket through a series of bizarre letters went viral after he recounted it on 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown last year.

As well as touring relentlessly, he produces brilliantly weird oil paintings, gifting Kuennsberg with a depiction of Robert Peston in jail, and entertains a combined social media following of more than two million with exploits from his home life. The two became friends while touring together (with Davidson's only complaint to Lycett being that he swore too much). Following the success of Channel 4’s ‘Joe Lycett’s Big Pride Party’ last year, for which Joe is nominated for a National Comedy Award, Joe Lycett is back broadcasting live from his hometown of Birmingham for five weeks. Either it was a genius ploy to ensure people are talking about a current affairs show online all day, or it was legendarily unthinking. They got on and had frank notes for one another: Davidson thought Lycett should swear less, while the 22-year-old Lycett successfully lobbied Davidson to remove an offensive term for a Chinese person from his act.

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Photograph: Matt Crockett ‘To be fair to them the fuzz were very nice about it all,’ Lycett wrote on Instagram.Having got in trouble a few weeks ago for partially de-icing the machine by inadvertently resting his hand on it, Lycett’s chief ambition is now to finish the job. My car’s full of soil,” says Corners as we clamber into the back seat, pushing aside a job lot of aftershaves. Phillips is on tea, as she’s going back to work; she’s between appointments campaigning for justice for the Birmingham Six. Each Friday a mix of Joe’s community of local legends, LGBTQ+ heroes and allies will join him alongside celebrities and big-name guests from the worlds of comedy, television, music and film.