He was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2018 for the BBC sketch show "Famalam" and in 2022 for the Sky One sitcom "Bloods", which he created and wrote.
Kayo was part of the main cast of the ITV2 sitcom Timewasters, in which a Black British jazz quartet are transported through time to the London of the 1920s and 1950s in each series, which ran from 2015 to 2017.
