Joe Lycett, the comedian and presenter of Travel Man, brings his new stand-up show to Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith for four nights.
Joe Lycett, the comedian and presenter of Travel Man and The Great British Sewing Bee, plays Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith from Wednesday 30 June to Saturday 3 July 2027.
Lycett was born in Solihull in 1988 and read drama and English at the University of Manchester. He worked front of house at the Alexandra in Birmingham and the Palace Theatre in Manchester.
He began stand-up in 2009 and won Chortle Student Comedian of the Year that same year. Early on he toured with Jim Davidson and persuaded him to drop a racial slur from a joke. Television followed with Live at the Apollo, Taskmaster, QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats.
On Channel 4 he presented the consumer rights series Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back. He also makes art, and has spoken up for the LGBTQ community on many occasions.
The new show mixes jokes with a sprinkling of social justice. It also covers fatherhood and his turn on Celebrity Traitors.