Late Night Lycett

RogerRoger77 below seems to have seen a different Late Night Lycett than we did. We loved it.

"...but the nadir came with the attempt to parody GB News, an excruciatingly ill-rehearsed and poorly written effort in which Lycett simply couldn't land a successful joke... His cohost in this segment, Alan Carr, at least had the decency to look bewildered and embarrassed by the whole thing."

Um, noooo. Whey then did every punchline have the audience screaming with laughter? The entire segment was brilliant, a perfect parody of GB News' fake white male outrage. And Carr was streets from bewildered. Apparently you didn't get the joke that his character was reading from the prompter? Yeah, you needed to figure that out.

I'm going to guess that you are NOT a "Guardian reader", as you pointedly put it. Not to worry, there are plenty of chat shows for you out there. In fact quite a few on GB News.

Late Night Lycett is not like anything we've seen before, and we look forward to every Friday night now.

I think the show was trying to recreate TFI Friday with Chris Evans. Well, it hasn't. They threw the whole LGBTQ++ celebrities at it. That just made it seem even more desperate. Joe Lycett is capable of better, which is why the whole sorry mess should be pulled, before his reputaion is indelibly tarnished. Even rent-a-posh tottie Joanna Lumley couldn't rescue this rubbish. Alan Carr being a screaming queen yet again just made it worse.

The fact that the programme comes live from Birmingham is an insult to the basically decent folk of that city. They gave us Crossroads, live from Pebble Mill etc. Come to think of it, the city doesn't exactly have a good track record of quality TV, does it?

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.

Joe Lycett the comedian can sometimes be reasonably funny - though, let's be honest, his act is essentially a watered-down version of Julian Clary's from thirty years ago - but as a 'political' and 'social' commentator he is painfully one-note and predictable. The problem is that his elevation to some kind of figurehead status by Guardian-readers for his oh-so-brave takedowns of the softest of soft targets (like Liz Truss and David Beckham, i.e. People who pretty much no one defends) seems to have gone to his head. Thus, he seems to believe that throwing out any random jibe that sounds a bit contemporary - look at me, I mentioned Twitter! - is enough to make a comment bitingly satirical, when it is usually anything but.

In the case of this programme, he is desperately in need of better writers. The interviews themselves were mediocre enough, but the nadir came with the attempt to parody GB News, an excruciatingly ill-rehearsed and poorly written effort in which Lycett simply couldn't land a successful joke, however much mugging to camera he tried. His cohost in this segment, Alan Carr, at least had the decency to look bewildered and embarrassed by the whole thing.

Satire (and comedy) really has fallen a long way since the golden age of alternative comedy in the 1980s - agree with them or not, but Alexei Sayle, the Comic Strip team, even Ben Elton in his prime, were simply so much funnier.

EDIT: I seem to have upset another reviewer (Lycett's agent?) as you can see in one of the other reviews. Flattered to be acknowledged! Just one point in reply: it's a useful rule of thumb that the more hysterically an audience is laughing in a TV studio, the less funny a show usually is. Those of us at home - not drunk, high, or being whipped up by the show's producers - are generally much better placed to judge.

Only watched this because Chris Packham was a guest and ended up embarrassed for Chris and for the other guests as well. All guests smiled their way through and did their best but it was excrutiating. It does give TFI Friday vibes because it's attempting the same chaotic fun but this show is puerile without reason and with a very low attention span - each segment is short and whips to something else before you really work out what the point is. I spent the whole thing wondering what on earth the crowd are finding to cheer about? Why are the crowd so happy? Nothing much is happening. I do love the idea of the GB News parody, but it isn't done very well. I think this show would improve with a bit more political bite and interesting chat, and less pointless fluff, but maybe that's just me.