Balanced News: Joe Lycett defends Qatar performances – ‘I was paid a few hundred quid’

The comedian Joe Lycett has said he was only “paid a few hundred quid” for performing in Qatar seven years ago after being accused of hypocrisy for his criticism of the World Cup host. On Wednesday it emerged that Lycett had performed in Doha, the Qatari capital, in 2015 and had also performed in the United Arab Emirates. “If you’re interested, I was paid a few hundred quid (not by Qatar but by UK comedy promoters) but it was 2015 and that went a lot further back then.”