After winning the Billy T Award in 1998, Lovegrove travelled and performed at international comedy festivals including Scotland, Canada and England.
[1] Between 2006 and 2007, he worked alongside Kevin Black on the Solid Gold FM breakfast show.
Lovegrove hosted the final series of TV2's Pulp Comedy and has also performed on Australia’s Rove Live.
He has received the best male comedian award from the New Zealand Comedy Guild[4] in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015 – a total of nine times.
Lovegrove received the Rielly Comedy Award from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand in 2012.