Joe Lycett

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Joe Harry Lycett (born 5 July 1988) is a British comedian and television presenter.

In his early career as a 22-year-old comedian, Lycett appeared on stage alongside Jim Davidson. Lycett was the 2009 Chortle Student Comedian of the Year, the winner of Bath New Act competition in 2009, the runner-up in the 2009 Laughing Horse New Act of the Year, and a finalist in the 2011 BBC New Comedy Awards.

In August 2011, he wrote and performed the short story Spooky and the Van which was broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on BBC Radio 4.

In 2012, his debut stand-up show Some Lycett Hot was nominated for the Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

In 2013 he made his debut on Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4.

In 2016, he took over from Miles Jupp as the host of It’s Not What You Know, also on BBC Radio 4. Lycett was also known as the resident news hound on Josh Widdicombe’s XFM radio show.

In 2019, Joe Lycett took over as the new presenter on the fifth series of BBC Two’s The Great British Sewing Bee, and also started presenting his consumer show Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back, which takes on big corporations to provide justice for consumers, with a comedic spin.

In February 2020 Lycett changed his name by deed poll from Joe Lycett to Hugo Boss to draw attention to the fashion company’s use of legal actions to pursue alleged copyright violations against small businesses for their of the word ‘Boss’. In April 2020, he changed his name back to Joe Lycett.

Lycett has appeared on television on Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Celebrity Juice, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Spicks and Specks, Would I Lie to You?, Insert Name Here, Virtually Famous, and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, and was a regular panellist on the E4 show Dirty Digest.

He also featured on Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled Christmas Special, and as a contestant in the fourth series of Taskmaster.

[Source: Wikipedia, 02/03/2021.]