Late Night Lycett

Late Night Lycett is a comedy variety show hosted by Joe Lycett on Channel 4 and first broadcast on 31 March 2023. The show is filmed in Lycett's home city of Birmingham and includes brief interviews with celebrity guests, with questions being asked from regular guests appearing in the audience, as well as recurring comedy segments. The show includes the use of surreal humour with one comedy segment showing Lycett talking to Linda Biscuits, a dog who is shown behind one of the cameras operating it while the show is progressing.
In series one, one recurring comedy segment included a celebrity minding Lycett's local corner shop in Kings Heath with Lycett crossing over live to a different celebrity in the shop in each episode. Lycett chats to the celebrity guest about how things are going or asks the guests who are with him inside the studio if there is anything they want from the shop.
Lycett's aunts, Pauline and Margaret, are in the audience each week and are announced during the starting period of the show, alongside his "local corner shop" owner, Hardev, Yshee Black and Don One. Another comedy segment includes a celebrity guest spoof of GB News with "Richard Yewtree" (His surname being a pun on Operation Yewtree).
Also in series one, a competition was run in which three audience members tell an embarrassing story in a chance to win Lycett's own car, as well as a running gag in which comedian Katherine Ryan never reaches the studio.
Another segment titled "Finish me off" involved Lycett reading out half of a sentence to a celebrity guest, and the guest is then asked to finish the rest of the sentence. There was also a recurring segment that as part of Lycett's scheme to hire trainees with no previous experience, Linda Biscuits, portrayed by Chilli the labrador, is shown appearing with the production team. Linda is shown operating a camera whilst vision of cats playing in a field comes across the live feed for the show as well as being shown to have urinated on the set beside the stage where Lycett is speaking to guests. Another similar segment to this occurs where a small dog is asked by Lycett where his aunties are located as they were not in the audience at the time.
Featured in each episode in series one is artwork, used to decorate the set, from local Birmingham artists such as Tat Vision, Fokawolf, Hannah Alshemmeri, Dion Kitson, Imbue and others.
In series two, a new recurring sketch involved Lycett asking various people if they had been wondering where Natalie Cassidy is, with the same response being given by each person that "Yeah I have been wondering where Natalie Cassidy is." The show then cuts to Joe Lycett holding his phone and commenting that "Its ringing", and the sketch then goes live to where Natalie Cassidy is located which is often in a mundane location such as seeing Natalie at home in bed with a face mask on or in the bath. In five of the six episodes in series 2, four people are asked this question, and then in the final episode there were thirteen people asked this question with Lycett commenting after the fifth person that, "We are now basically off the script that I've not read before by the way I don't know what's happening." Other surprises in episode 6 of series 2 included Maryam Moshiri appearing as a guest without Lycett being aware that Moshiri was appearing and Lycett being given a photo that had his head photoshopped onto the body of a different second male who was completely naked with a surprised Lycett commenting, "It's a photo of me with me cock out."
Another recurring segment in series two included "Hunderstudies", where Lycett comments on an event that he has been invited to attend, and then he sends someone else out to attend who then appears on air live from the show. The segment included David Potts appearing live from the opening of a public toilet in Pangbourne, Tom Read Wilson appearing at a Blue concert in Gateshead, and Anita Rani appearing live from Hardev's shop in King's Heath.
The show is filmed live at The Bond in Digbeth and is produced by Channel 4, Rumpus Media and My Options Were Limited, Joe Lycett's production company.
Recurring segments in this series included a live cross over to a celebrity guest minding Lycett's local corner shop, studio audience members speaking about embarrassing stories, Linda Biscuits, the dog, who was a member of the production staff, and the segment titled "Finish me Off" where Lycett reads out half a sentence to guests and the guest is then asked to finish the rest of the sentence.
Recurring segments in this series included "Hunderstudies", "Where in the world is Natalie Cassidy?" and "Something Teeny with Claire Sweeney".
In 2024 the show received a BAFTA for "Entertainment Performance".