Joe Lycett Discusses Fatherhood and New Pub-Based TV Show

‘OK, fine. I’m a national treasure’: Joe Lycett on fatherhood, Celebrity Traitors – and his TV show live from a pub

The comedian’s new Friday night series will be set in a working pub, with his aunties working the bar and celebrities doing shifts as managers. Or it will be if he can only get his licence … Joe Lycett sits in a pub, an untouched pint in front of him. “Since I had my son, I’m not drinking anywhere near as much,” he laments. “Children do not respect hangovers, or tiredness in general.” His son is almost two, and Lycett has readjusted his life accordingly. “I’ve started going to bed when he doe...

By Stuart Heritage