Late Night Lycett

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.

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.

Lycett's foray into the realm of the Friday night live show has been a running experiment since its inception. Series 1 got caught up in the same little formula that got tired fast but the second series had tons of progression and promise, a kind of whirligig meta-narrative about Lycett's aunties that is really wild but is perhaps too welded to the celeb interviews to go where it needs to go. That being said - the specific local vibe is unmatched on UK telly, it is funny, the guests were well chosen and the occasional patches of chaos (some planned, some not) can be quite refreshing. I still think we need even more localism, Joe's world could be interesting enough without crowbarring random celebrities into it. Perhaps just a single guest co-host?

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.

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?