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.
