[1] Boyd was a Redcoat entertainer at the Butlins resort in Bognor Regis as a teenager, where he saw comedians Tommy Cooper, Ken Dodd, and Bob Monkhouse perform.
"[1] Boyd expressed a desire to work in television from watching John Noakes present the children's programme Blue Peter on the BBC.
He botched a pancake making routine on purpose that resembled Noakes' style which gained a round of applause from the camera crew, and landed the job.
The show featured items such as a phone-in news quiz, and a segment where group or club members – such as bus spotters – were invited into the studio to discuss their hobby, and to take part in the Jellybone Jury, reviewing and scoring the latest record releases.
The programme is remembered for its mystery guest segment, where a famous person would come in and put on a fake voice and listeners would call in and guess who it was – Roy Castle once featured and "talked" only by playing his trombone.
He returned to children's radio on LBC with a Sunday afternoon programme called Lazily Stacey, named after a fictional detective he had invented.
In February 1995, Boyd was amongst the inaugural line-up of presenters of the AM station Talksport (initially Talk Radio UK) until November 1998, when he lost his job in a reshuffle after it was taken over by a consortium led by former Sun newspaper editor Kelvin MacKenzie.
In February 2002, he helped organise Revival, a wrestling event at Crystal Palace Arena that featured former WWE superstars Eddie Guerrero and Brian Christopher.
In May 2000, Boyd began to take calls straight to air and unscreened on Sunday nights which became known as The Human Zoo with co-presenter Asher Gould.
Boyd was sacked in March 2002 after failing to use the profanity delay to "dump" one caller's remarks that contained the word "fucking" and that the British Royal Family should be shot.