Jake Yapp
- Actor, writer, composer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Radio 4 orders free speech comedy show Unsafe Space, despite protests
Radio 4 has commissioned Unsafe Space, a "provocative" comedy and debate show championing free speech and broader class representation, despite protesters allegedly threatening to shut it down by blowing airhorns during the recording.
British Comedy Guide, 8th December 2022The Delightful Sausage pilot dark holiday camp sitcom
The Delightful Sausage are piloting "a really messed-up version of Hi-De-Hi!", loosely based on their 2019 live show Ginster's Paradise.
British Comedy Guide, 19th July 2022Shaun Keaveny to narrate Absolute Radio's first scripted comedy
Shaun Keaveny is to narrate Rockanory, Absolute Radio's first scripted comedy series. The series involves dramatisations of apocryphal rock'n'roll legends.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd August 2021Now Wash Your Hands review
The recurrent dreadfulness of Radio 4 comedy is a bit like a humanitarian disaster on the other side of the world. Yes, it's bad; yes, you wish it wasn't happening; but what are you realistically going to do to change things? Best to turn off the radio and stop thinking about it. Sometimes, things get so awful that intervention becomes necessary. As the Times radio critic I feel moved to issue a unilateral condemnation of Radio 4's new coronavirus-themed "comedy" podcast Now Wash Your Hands.
James Marriott, The Times, 9th April 2020Radio 4 launches comedy show reacting to coronavirus isolation
Radio 4 has quickly commissioned Now Wash Your Hands, a new comedy show and accompanying podcast in which four hosts invite comedians to share their isolation experiences.
British Comedy Guide, 28th March 2020Kiri Pritchard-McLean to host Newsjack
Kiri Pritchard-McLean has been announced as the new host of Newsjack, Radio 4 Extra's topical comedy show that has an open door submission policy.
British Comedy Guide, 12th December 2018The Hurting: Jake Yapp reinvents the clip show
Dave's new clip show is You've Been Framed in all but name, but with one crucial difference - Jake Yapp's breathless voiceover.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 28th November 2017If you're not planning to listen to Radio 4 in the coming year, you could make up for it by listening to the first few minutes of Jake Yapp Saves Humanity in 28 Minutes. Here, you get a clear idea of the workings of programmes such as Poetry Please with Roger McGough ("one side of A4 read out over half an hour") and Woman's Hour ("we present a singer who's got a great backstory but sings pretty dismal tunes"). Oh, and how do you recognise a Radio 4 listener? "They're people who cut things out of the Guardian and give them to relatives."
David Hepworth, The Guardian, 7th January 2017Radio 4 to broadcast six comedy pilots on twelfth night
Radio 4 is to "illuminate January with the spirit of misrule" by broadcasting a series of comedy pilots of the twelfth night, the 7th January.
British Comedy Guide, 21st December 2016BBC's comedy sketch attack on 'working class' ITV
Yes, it was a bank holiday - but did that give the BBC an excuse to launch a licence-fee funded attack on its independent rival? The BBC Radio 4 Today programme commissioned a BBC-marinated 'comedian', Jake Yapp, to perform 'a condensed version of what ITV viewers will be missing this morning'.
The Spectator, 30th August 2016