Late Night Lycett

Joe Lycett is always hilarious and the "Richard Yewtree" sections are the funniest. A proper scream. Suspect it's a little too close to the media diet of those who gave 1 star.

Really nice that it's highlighting talent in Birmingham too. Don One is a great drag king and I wasn't familiar with the fabulous Yshee Black. Great celebration of the rainbow of Britishness too - unapologetically camp and wonderful. Just as Friday nights should be. Hope Channel 4 keep making it as it's a great reason to stay in on a Friday and snuggle with my cat and dog. Not sure what else to say here other than yay!

So, as the name implies, this is a late night variety show hosted by comedian Joe Lycett in a studio in Birmingham. It's in the slot where The Last Leg normally is on Channel 4, at 10:00pm.

I'll be honest, Lycett is one of the comedians I can take more than most. He CAN be funny, although he does engage in the same dirty humour that most comedians use. Yes, he swears a lot and so does this show, but he mostly puts the focus on comedy towards being twisted and wacky at times. And aside from this show, Lycett is quite a crazy person himself, if you've seen from his marketing stunts and whatnot.

Alright, the whole concept is similar to that of TFI Friday. There are many segments written by Lycett but, as I said in the title, they fall flat. One of them spoofs GB News, which seems like a genius move considering it's a disaster of a network, but nope - it just had to be underwhelming. I don't need to explain, but it just is! When the show isn't being the same vulgar jokes you hear on other comedy shows, it does bring in some funny gags. Katherine Ryan's running gag in Series 1 where she never gets to be on the show shows off Lycett's power to be wacky and slapsticky.

The guests on the show are normally people from the LGBT+ scene. This brings in quite a wide variety of people of various types. However, there are other guests as well, so there is a wide variety. At least it doesn't exclusively feature comedians.

Overall, Late Night Lycett is a let down of a show, but the good points prevent it from being a very bad programme. It's surely better than Smart TV and other panel shows I've watched, which try too hard to be edgy for the sake of being on pay TV.

I was really excited about this show as I've always enjoyed Joe Lycett's comedy but straight away I knew it wasn't going work.

As soon as the opening credits were over it was pure filth. The language was disgusting. Just because it's live and it's late night doesn't mean you have a license to swear!

I found it irritating and tedious just like the gags.

I could only stomach watching up until Joanna Lumley came on with Alan Carr thinking that things might improve but all Joe talked about was himself and the "huns" even describing Liz Truss as a "Hun" (what??) I felt like I'd fallen into a different parallel universe.

Almost identical to earlier shows. Don't forget your toothbrush etc. C4 was groundbreaking in the day, but now, recycling shock tv.

It has amazing stars, surprised by lycett, much like Ross did in the day, but less focused on chat, and more on product placement in the days you could watch a 60 minute show without interruption with adverts.

Lycertt will be sued, as will c4. Held to account for manipulation of the public opinion. It's going to happen- do enjoy it while you can, as soon you will be in prison, dropping the soap in the shower.

C4 makes fancy baking shows, house selling, and then they throw curve balls of dangerous reality tv, giving false hopes to wannabes, false commentary by pseudoscience.

Do they practice what they preach? Do they feel the emotion- it should be gonzo. Getting involved with the story, raw and unedited rather than stylised and scripted carefully in a Masterchef style calm voice.

They document, but do not listen to the problem. Do no help, it's one thing to listen, another to walk away once the budget expires, leaving the victims to their fate.

History, written by the winners will tell.

Anyone claiming this is the 'new TFI Friday' or 'Big Breakfast' clearly wasn't around in the 90s. What we have here is an hour of self indulgent laugh free crass that deserves to be confined to televisual history. Lycett surrounds himself with a bunch of oddball sycophantic nobodies and indulges in his own weak puerile sense of humour for an hour long snooze fest. I long for the days of TFI Friday which at least was original and edgy in a good way given its timeslot. What Lycett's been handed is a late night licence to explore his self infatuated persona and inflict it on an unsuspecting generation with nothing better to compare it to. Give it a miss, you're won't regret it.