Jake O’Kane (born 12 March 1961[1]) is a Belfast-based stand-up comedian, and a resident compère of the Northern Ireland comedy club, "The Empire Laughs Back" at The Empire Music Hall in Belfast.
[citation needed] He hosted and performed on the BBC Northern Ireland stand up television show One Night Stand,[4] and was a resident panellist on the show The Blame Game on both TV and radio from 2005 to 2021.
[5][6] In addition to his comedy, O'Kane also runs an off licence shop in North Belfast.
O'Kane suffers from coeliac disease, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) which he was recently diagnosed with.
[7] His father, Jim O'Kane, was a Republican Labour councillor on Belfast City Council and was interned in 1971 as part of Operation Demetrius.