APRIL FOOLS: Joe Lycett
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Welcome to White Wine Question Time - and we're continuing to search around in out cellar of almost 500 episodes to pull out some of the very best episodes from our ever-growing archive.
Each Tuesday we'll bring you a highlight from the past SEVEN YEARS, and we're continuing to drop new episodes every Thursday. We're also putting YOUR questions to our guests every Saturday in a bonus Weekend Wine Question Time. We hope you're enjoying all the episodes - drop us an email and let us know what you think!
Throughout April we're celebrating the fools - the very best funny men and women who've made us laugh - you'll hear from Joe Lycett (this episode) Katharine Ryan, Stewart Lee and Ellie Taylor - but they're just the tip of the iceberg, if you want more comedians there are dozens of them in our old episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asked its guests three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 0:09.7 | And my guest today is a rebel with a cause, a comedic stuntman and a master of marvellous mischief. |
| 0:17.1 | A comedian and campaigner often in the same breath. |
| 0:20.6 | He won a BAFTA in May, which he collected dressed, following Adair from his aunts, Pauline and Margaret, dressed as Queen Elizabeth I, picking up best entertainment performance. |
| 0:31.3 | He was born in Birmingham in 1988 and raised in Sollyhole, where he was performing stand-up during his time at Manchester University in 2007, |
| 0:40.0 | alongside another fellow comic you may have heard of, Jack Whitehall. |
| 0:44.3 | After conquering the comedy clubs of the North, he moved from the stage to our screens, |
| 0:48.6 | with frequent appearances on panel shows before making his grand debut live at the Apollo, |
| 0:53.6 | a holy grail for any self-respecting |
| 0:56.3 | stand-up. Since then, he's hosted a string of primetime presenting gigs from the great British |
| 1:02.0 | sewing bee to Travelman and Late Night Lyset to Genzi's answer to watchdog, putting consumer |
| 1:08.6 | rights wrong, always with a wry smile, with shows like |
| 1:12.0 | Joe Lice, it's got your back. |
| 1:13.5 | And it's his work in this space where he's really punched through with stunts that start |
| 1:17.8 | out as, well, entirely silly to engage and capture people's attention. |
| 1:22.6 | With the punchline seeing him land a serious and pertinent point, be it changing his name by Dean Pohl to Hugo |
| 1:28.8 | Boss, threatening to shred 10,000 pounds of cash unless David Beckon renounced his World Cup deal |
| 1:34.5 | with Qatar, sewing Harry Stiles over a chunky Kit Kat, or selling a photo of Popori for 50,000 |
| 1:41.6 | pounds. It's this work that clearly excites him, but he concedes he's walking |
| 1:46.4 | something of a tightrope with it and says my life certainly would be a lot simpler if I didn't do |
| 1:52.1 | these things. I put myself and my career at considerable risk. Well, thank goodness he does. He |
| 1:57.9 | continues unabated. And alongside all of this, he's also started to take his work |
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