Jacob Yapp is a British

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, and

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Career

Jacob Yapp first appeared in the mid-1990s on Martin Kelner's radio shows on BBC North and Jazz FM, playing the character Dame Dora Dale. The character returned to radio in 2006 on the award-winning

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show ''Pleased to Meet You''. Two new episodes were broadcast by

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over Christmas 2011. Yapp was a writer for the 1997-98 series '' TV Offal'', and contributed to

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in 2007. A semi-finalist in the 2000 Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award, Yapp performed at the

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in 2008 (''Bum Notes'') and 2009 (''Hallo, Music Lovers'' & ''Free at Four''). He had a regular slot on

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breakfast show until July 2011. Yapp also created and performed ''The Chesney Bentings Mysteries'' for

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show as part of 2011's

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. Beginning in August of 2011, Yapp presented his own Friday and Saturday morning shows on BBC Radio Leeds which ran until December, 2012. Yapp is well known for his YouTube parody of a day in the life of

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titled 'Radio 4 in Four Minutes.' He has also contributed to

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's '' Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe'' and BBC Radio 4's ''

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'' and has appeared on ''

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''. In the lead-up to the 2015 UK General Election, Yapp performed live on

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with musical renditions of political party manifestos, accompanied by Harry The Piano. He performed at the 2015 Camden Fringe alongside his brother Joe Yapp with a show titled ''Onederland'', a satirical and musical examination of

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. In 2016, he wrote and presented a series of short,

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histories of scientific knowledge on

titled ''Everything We've Ever Known About....'' In 2016, Yapp began hosting Sunday breakfast on Talkradio, initially alongside

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; he also regularly covered weekday shows. He performed his final show on the station on 14 January 2018. Yapp wrote and voiced the new British

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motoring entertainment show ''Ronnie's Redneck Roadtrip'', which was broadcast on

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in the UK, and

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in the US in April 2017. Yapp's newest live show, 'One in a Million', from

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2016, was restaged at the

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in London in June 2017. Starting from November 2017, Yapp narrated the comedy clip show ''

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'' broadcast on Dave. In July and August 2018, 'Jake Yapp's Media Circus', a four-part satirical series, was broadcast on BBC radio. Yapp regularly hosts the Comedy Club on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Yapp is the co-host of Checkpoint Magazine Podcast and The Old Hex Podcast.

Personal life

Yapp is the cousin of documentary filmmaker Will Yapp.

References

External links

Pleased to Meet You

Camden Fringe Festival - Onederland

Noel Gay - Jake Yapp

Chesney Bentings
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