Yapp first came to prominence in the mid-1990s on Martin Kelner's radio shows on BBC North and Jazz FM playing the character Dame Dora Dale. This led to the award-winning BBC 7 show Pleased to Meet You in 2006. Two new episodes were transmitted by BBC Radio 4 Extra over Christmas 2011. A semi-finalist in the 2000 Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award, Yapp performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008 and 2009. He had a regular slot on BBC 6 Music's Shaun Keavenybreakfast show until July 2011. Yapp also created and performed The Chesney Bentings Mysteries for BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce show as part of 2011's Comic Relief. From August 2011 until December 2012, Yapp presented his own Friday and Saturday morning shows on BBC Radio Leeds. Yapp is well known for his YouTube parody of a day in the life ofBBC Radio 4 titled 'Radio Four in Four Minutes'. He has also been a contributor to BBC2's Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe and BBC Radio 4's The Now Show and has also appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. In the lead-up to the 2015 UK General Election, Yapp performed live on BBC2's Newsnight with musical renditions of political party manifestos, with accompaniment from Harry The Piano. He performed at the 2015 Camden Fringe alongside his brother Joe Yapp with a show entitled 'Onederland', a satirical and musical examination of BBC One. In 2016 he wrote and presented a series of short, comic histories of scientific knowledge on BBC Radio 4 entitled 'Everything We've Ever Known About...' In 2016 Yapp began hosting Sunday breakfast on Talkradio, initially alongside Laura Shavin; he also regularly covered weekday shows. He presented his final show on the station on 14 January 2018. Yapp wrote and voiced the new British reality motoring entertainment show Ronnie's Redneck Roadtrip, which was broadcast on Dave in the UK, and Kodi in the US in April 2017. Yapp's newest live show 'One in a Million', from Edinburgh Festival 2016, was restaged at the Soho Theatre in London in June 2017. Starting in November 2017 Yapp narrated the comedyclip showThe Hurting 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 co-host of The Old Sex Podcast.
