Joe Lycett’s United States of Birmingham review – what a brilliantly daft road trip, bab!

Lucy Mangan - TheGuardian - 23:09
The comic’s love for his home town leads him on this charming and wacky odyssey to find ‘his people’ across the pond. Brummies of the world unite!
He’s well and truly earned the right to have a little jolly … Joe Lycett's United States of Birmingham. Photograph: North One TV/©Sky UK Ltd
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He’s well and truly earned the right to have a little jolly … Joe Lycett's United States of Birmingham. Photograph: North One TV/©Sky UK Ltd
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Joe Lycett’s United States of Birmingham review – what a brilliantly daft road trip, bab!

The comic’s love for his home town leads him on this charming and wacky odyssey to find ‘his people’ across the pond. Brummies of the world unite!

Joe Lycett is on a mission to visit every one of the 17 Birminghams in the US and the one in Canada too. Why? Because he is a native of the UK’s own Birmingham, and he wants to see if there is any shared identifiable vibe and to foster a sense of togetherness among the scattered Brummies. Also, as he says, he has a pressing need to make a travelogue for Sky “and if anyone can do it, it’s Frank Sk– … it’s me”. There is also a Birmingham on the moon (a re...
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