Jake Yapp
- Location: London
- Clip Details: Jake Yapp on The X Factor
- Clip:
- Clip Page URL: http://youtu.be/z6OcHRGGjRE
- Gender: Male
- Gig Price in £ (30 mins): Band-3:1k-5k
- Act Content: Primetime-TV-compatible
- Height Category: 5ft07-5ft10
- Build: Medium
- Playing Age: 36-45
- Appearance: Caucasian-Medium
- Nationality: English
- Accents: RP, posh, idiotically posh, cockney, northern, gormless
- Languages: very fluent French
- Website: http://www.jakeyapp.com
- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jakeyapp
- Musical Instruments: basic keyboards, saxophone, ukulele, basic trumpet
- Skills: Driving licence
- For all enquiries phone: 020 7952 4361
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Please mention ComedyCaster when you call.
Details
2008-Present: Writer/Performer/Composer for Shaun Keaveny Breakfast Show, BBC 6Music. Daily jingles, songs and sketches, all fresh, all delivered in under an hour.
1996 – Full-time presenter, Radio 106FM East Midlands.60/40 Music/Speech Banal/Good.
1996 – Wrote lyrics for songs for TV Offal, Channel 4, with Victor Lewis-Smith.
1997 – Wrote sketches, produced and directed TV Offal series 2.
1998 – Writer, Radio 1 – sketches for Zoe Ball, Chris Moyle
1998 – Z For Fake, BBC2. Spoof game show devised by Victor Lewis-Smith. Wrote, performed, produced, directed.
1999 – Performer, Stop the World, hidden-camera comedy show, BBC Choice
2002-2004 – Performer with Washington DC-based improv troupe, Comedy Gears
2002-2007 – Weekly contributor, BBC Late-Night Network. Comedy character pieces, 5-10 mins on phone.
2003 – Wrote songs for revue show, Rhyme and Punishment, Hexagon Theatre, DC
2004-2006 – Writer, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, series 17, 19, 20
2007 – Writer, on-air, Sundance Channel USA
2007 – Writer/performer, Pleased to Meet You, BBC 7. Nominated for Sony Award for Best Comedy
2007-2008 – Writer/performer, comedy character pieces, programme narration, comic fiction, Nuts TV
2008-2010 – Writer, World Music Awards
2010 – Danny Wallace Show – Writer/Composer/Narrator, New Year show, 6Music.
2010 – Ian Collins / The Adult Hour – Sketches, songs and jingles
2010 – Live From the Apocalypse – Comedy Pilot in development for ITV
2010 – Continuity announcer for Dave
CORPORATE
ASDA UK – Ongoing writing/performing/puppeteering work 2007-Present
Red Bee Media Awards 2006 + 2009 – Wrote and hosted
Promax 2006, 2007, 2010 – Wrote and performed sessions
STANDUP
Semi-Finalist, Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards 2000
Edinburgh 2008 – Bum Notes, One-man music/comedy show
Edinburgh 2009 – Hallo, Music Lovers! – One man music/comedy show
2007 – Script Associate for The Icons in London, West End
TV:
Most Annoying People 2008 – BBC3
Most Annoying People 2009– BBC3
The Noughties – Was That It? – BBC3
Gleeful – E4
