It's a thing for the centenary of Northern Ireland – they say write what you know, so I basically did the opposite: it's a skit about a loyalist trying to buy rugby tickets and getting rejected by the UK because they no longer recognise him as being from the UK, so he ends up having to buy them off a guy in Dublin who doesn't recognise him as being Irish. I also enjoyed writing a radio play for Simon McGill down in the MAC. I found that comforting in a way, because sometimes you start to wonder, 'Am I doing this for the money?' And it's as well I'm not – you'd have to be mentally unwell to do it for the money. The nice thing about doing Jake Uncut is that it's an indication that there's a genuine need for me to be doing this – because there's no financial gain from it at all. She will immediately tell me what I can and can't say about someone. But I'm lucky that my wife Caroline is a very good editor. Then you have to edit the stuff, which is a nightmare – it takes twice as long to edit it as it does to record it. Even just recording the stuff, for the first three weeks the sound was s***e.Įventually, I phoned the guy who does sound for me on tour, Sean Boyle: he came to see me after the first lockdown ended and told me that the big expensive microphone I'd bought wasn't actually turned on. That was me figuring out 'how can I still do what I do without doing what I do?' And it was a steep learning curve. Have you enjoyed adapting your comedy to that format? :: You were quite active online during lockdown last year with your Jake In His Jammies YouTube videos and have continued to post regular Jake Uncut videos. I was sitting there going 'look at that f***ing idiot' – little did I know.
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And that was my first inkling that this thing was serious: we were sitting in JFK and this woman walked past whose own husband wouldn't have recognised her: she had surgical gloves, a full surgical facemask and wrap-around glasses.
Last year, I thought I'd treat them and take us away to New York. Christmas is usually brutal for me because I only see the family on Christmas Day and that's pretty much it until February or March, when we have a tradition of going away together for three or four days. It was surreal, I'd literally just finished my tour in mid-February. This is the longest I've been off stage since I started doing comedy. I actually can't remember, time seems to have wrapped into itself over the past two years. :: WHEN were you last on stage doing live comedy? Jake O'Kane's tour has been disrupted by the latest Covid measures days before it was due to start.
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