{"id":202882,"date":"2025-11-27T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202882\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:20:11","slug":"jake-okane-comedian-on-why-he-left-hit-bbc-ni-show-the-blame-game-i-just-didnt-fit-it-because-my-stuff-is-quite-edgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202882\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake O&#8217;Kane: Comedian on why he left hit BBC NI show The Blame Game: &#8216;I just didn\u2019t fit it, because my stuff is quite edgy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">For our Meaning of Life series, comic Jake O\u2019Kane talks about the latest BBC crisis, corporate gigs and his new tour\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Belfast stand-up comedian Jake O'Kane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/98848245-db2b-4c12-8dc6-cbc6fce53b62.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Belfast stand-up comedian Jake O&#8217;Kane<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For a stand-up comedian, the ability to communicate is paramount \u2014 and for Jake O\u2019Kane it means keeping his mouth in order and embarking on his latest tour so he can keep paying his hefty dental bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The title of his latest tour, then, is very much on the nose (well, actually, his mouth): Jake O\u2019Kane Needs New Teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For our Meaning of Life series, comic Jake O\u2019Kane talks about the latest BBC crisis, corporate gigs and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[3412,434,356,18,117,78063,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-202882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-gillian-halliday","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115621400069713295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}