Jake Yapp

Ten Fringe stars with very different TV roles

Anyway, here are ten acts at the Fringe who you may know from other TV shows, stand-up appearances not counted.

Podcast: Jake Yapp 'One in a Million'

Jake Yapp tells Martin Walker about the worst gig of his life - opening for Beyoncé at the World Music Awards. They also discuss Jake's Edinburgh show, the accurately titled, 'Jake Yapp is One in a Million'.

Jake Yapp interview

After seven years away, Jake Yapp returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a brand new show, One In A Million.

Brooker is back behind his desk, swapping the techno-dystopias of Black Mirror for the equally unsettling current affairs scene. Joining him to strip-search and generally humiliate the week's events will be Cassetteboy and Jake Yapp, along with very confused media commentator Philomena Cunk. And in case you think it'll be a challenge mining laughs from ever-bleaker headlines, Brooker's end-of-2014 Wipe proved that even when the news is gloomy, the way the media breaks it to us will always be ripe for mockery.

From conscious uncoupling to the ice bucket challenge to those grey-haired berks and their cereal cafe, 2014 has been a year more stuffed than most with inanity, which augurs well for Charlie Brooker's seasonal skewering. He'll be joined as ever by delightful dullards Barry Shitpeas and Philomena "What is clocks?" Cunk, while comedian Jake Yapp will be on hand to mercilessly mock one of 2014's other major moments while talking extremely quickly. A new series of Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe will air in January.

Jake Yapp: The Agony of a Misfired Joke

I didn't sign the letter (I wasn't asked to either, mind you, I mean, I don't want to go making assumptions or anything) but if I had been asked, I don't know if I would have signed it. I am not quite so eager to cast the first stone. I can't pretend I have never made an error of judgement.

A new season of the Wipe is always welcome. Each week, Brooker casts his customarily jaundiced eye across the worlds of the media, politics and the internet, as well as developments in TV, cinema, computer games and social media. Part of his success is that he doesn't hog the show but gets in good wingmen. Tonight's opener features contributions by comedians Jake Yapp and Brian Limond of Limmy's Show, as well as regular guest and American cultural correspondent Doug Stanhope.

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker turns his satirical eye on the week's media output for a second series of swipes at whatever tickles his darkly comic fancy across all manner of technological platforms.

Indulging his passion for the spoken word, Brooker twists his tongue around anything and everything that gets his goat. With contributions from Brooker's regular US-watcher, comedian Doug Stanhope, and guests including jokers Jake Yapp and Brian 'Limmy' Limond.