A biography for Joe Lycetthasn’t been written yet.
“Even though I now eat meat, I have halloumi every day - even at breakfast.”
“I sleep all the time! I often leave an event early because I want to have a snooze.”
“I'm so British and polite that creating a scene or being confrontational is so not my vibe.”
“The idea was to become an actor. Then I found I really didn't like acting.”
“I'm a qualified swimming instructor.”
“When I started stand-up, it was really just to have a go at alpha males essentially, there was no plan and there never has been really.”
“Every year I buy a big faux-fur coat for the winter.”
“I love living in Birmingham, it's just a lovely gentle life, and it's calm. And it's full of Brummies who I find hilarious.”
“Alan Carr is an out and proud gay man but there isn't a famous bisexual equivalent - it's a lot rarer.”
“World domination was never the plan.”
“I originally came out as gay when I was a teenager, then backtracked when I thought I had closed off the market a bit!”
“I do a very good impression of Louis Armstrong.”
“It is amazing that I'm making a career out of comedy, my family can't quite believe it.”
“I keep getting mobbed in M&S and Debenhams. I feel like Barry Manilow.”
“There are many terms that have been used to describe me: man, comedian, disappointment, hammock enthusiast.”
“It's a cliche, but the people who enjoy your work and who come up and say, 'I enjoyed that and I liked that,' they are the people who ultimately are keeping you in work. And so, it would be rude and ungrateful of me to be anything but polite.”
“I often ask people in the audience what their favourite cheese is. Anything less than Gruyere and they're just not middle class!”
“As a comic, you just want to be liked.”
“A theatre tour as me, Joe Lycett, with support acts. That would be the dream.”
“I don't think I like sharing the limelight.”