Joe Lycett on Beckham, Bake Off and 'being right-wing'
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Joe Lycett joins Emily and Jon in News Agents HQ.
He tells us why being so angry with the government makes him do 'silly' things, 'shredding' £10,000 in a stand-off with David Beckham, and whether he'll replace Matt Lucas as the presenter of The Great British Bake-Off.
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Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | Remember this? |
| 0:13.1 | This is a message to David Beckham. |
| 0:15.0 | If you end your relationship with Qatar, I'll donate this 10 grand of my own money, |
| 0:19.6 | that's a grand for every million you're reportedly getting, |
| 0:21.6 | to charities that support queer people in football. |
| 0:24.6 | However, if you do not, at midday next Sunday, I will throw this money into a shredder |
| 0:30.6 | and stream it live on a website I've registered called benderslightbeckham.com. |
| 0:34.6 | Not just the money, but also your status as a gay icon will be shredded. |
| 0:39.7 | Well, that was Joe Lysett. We're going to hear the full story of what happened and why he didn't |
| 0:45.6 | shred that £10,000. But we'll also hear quite a serious side to Joe Lyset, why he ended up becoming |
| 0:52.6 | a political comedian when he never actually intended to. |
| 0:57.0 | And we talked to him about Qatar and about whether he thinks ultimately sports washing has worked. |
| 1:04.5 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:09.0 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:12.0 | It's John. It's Emily. And we're in Newsagents It's John. |
| 1:12.7 | It's Emily. |
| 1:15.0 | And we're in Newsagents HQ. |
| 1:31.4 | We are joined in the studio by the comedian Joe Leicitt, who has turned out to be really effective at making a political point and doing so in a way that garners enormous attention. Most recently over Qatar and David Beckham's multi-million pound deal and goodness knows how many millions it is, |
| 1:39.3 | but a lot. And Joe, welcome to the newsagents. Thank you very much for being with us. |
| 1:44.2 | Thank you for having me. I'm a huge fan of the podcast. |
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