Ben Bailey Smith: 'I'm still angry about Bake Off 2017'

The actor, comic and rapper on his TV loves and hates, from the surfeit of competition shows to Sean Locke and Benedict Wong’s forgotten comedy 15 Storeys HighDave, Lil Dicky’s comedy (FX/BBC Two). He’s a hilarious, technically gifted, proficient rapper, but he doesn’t do a lot of that on the show. What he does is expose himself, in character, as a narcissistic, incredibly selfish person who has one goal – being famous at all costs. It’s a representation we&rs