"Merry Christmas Jakey Boy" is a single released exclusively for the Irish market in December 2006 by Jake Stevens.
Stevens is an alter ego of the comedian PJ Gallagher who features in the popular RTÉ Two hidden camera/comedy style television series, Naked Camera.
[3] "Merry Christmas Jakey Boy" was performed by PJ Gallagher (as his alter ego Jake Stevens) on at least two television shows, the youth programme The Cafe and the primetime chat show Tubridy Tonight.
The Cafe performance came on 14 December 2006, following a guest appearance by Gallagher alongside his Naked Camera colleague Maeve Higgins and the corporate magician Jack Wise.
UK band The Charlatans also performed their single "Blackened Blue Eyes" on the same show.