Jay Foreman (comedian)
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| Born | 28 October 1984 Stanmore, London, England | |||||||||
| Instrument(s) | Guitar | |||||||||
| Years active | 2005–present | |||||||||
| Website | jayforeman | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2006—present | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 1.0 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 121.5 million[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 14 September 2021 | ||||||||||
Jay Foreman (born 28 October 1984) is an English YouTuber, singer-songwriter and comedian.
Personal life
Foreman was raised in a Jewish household in Stanmore, London with his brother and sister.[2] His brother is beatboxer and musician Darren Foreman, more famously known by his stage name "Beardyman".[3]
In June 2019, Foreman and his partner, Jade Nagi, announced their engagement via Twitter.[4] In August 2021, the couple married at the Fanhams Hall in Ware, Hertfordshire.[5][6]
Education
From 1996 to 2003, Foreman was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School,[8] a state grammar school for boys in Barnet, North West London, followed by the University of York, where he began performing comedy songs on acoustic guitar in 2005.[9]
Career
Foreman was featured as the BBC New Talent Pick of the Fringe 2007, won Best Newcomer at the Tuborg Musical Comedy awards 2009[10] and came third at the Musical Comedy Awards 2010.[11]
In 2009, Foreman contributed jingles to the weekly comedy podcast Answer Me This!,[12] and in 2011 and 2012, supported comedian Dave Gorman on Dave Gorman's PowerPoint Presentation tour.[13] In 2014, he began contributing regular topical comedy songs on Not The One Show, a magazine programme on London Live.[citation needed]
Foreman presented The General Election Xplained, a film sent to every secondary school in the UK in 2010, which won gold at the New York Festival for Best PR Film.[14]
For several years, he has also performed shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which include Disgusting Songs For Revolting Children (And Other Funny Stories), No More Colours and Mixtape.[15]
Jay Foreman's songs have been heard on BBC Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, The One Show and London Live TV.[16]
YouTube
Foreman created his YouTube channel in April 2006, originally under the name "jayforeman51".[17] It contains various clips from his comedy shows, tongue-in-cheek educational series such as Map Men (presented with Mark Cooper-Jones), Politics Unboringed and Unfinished London, and music videos for his songs. As of 18 September 2021, Foreman has over 1,000,000 subscribers and amassed over 122 million views across all his public videos.[18]
Map Men
Map Men is a series of educational YouTube videos co-presented with Mark Cooper-Jones. The series premiered in 2016. It consists of around 5 minutes long videos about specific maps and abnormalities considering them.
| Part | Title | Subject | Uploaded |
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| 1 | "Bir Tawil – the land that nobody wants" | Bir Tawil | 4 May 2016 |
| 2 | "Mappa Mundi – the worst world map?" | Hereford Mappa Mundi | 25 May 2016 |
| 3 | "Where is the north/south divide?" | North–South division of England | 10 June 2016 |
| 4 | "India/Bangladesh – The world's worst border" | Enclaves on the India-Bangladesh border | 8 July 2016 |
| 5 | "Why is there a BLANK space in this map of East Berlin?" | Maps leaving blank spaces, including the map of East Berlin with blank in the place of West Berlin | 4 August 2016 |
| 6 | "Who Owns the South China Sea?" | Territorial disputes in the South China Sea | 8 August 2016 |
| 7 | "The world's oldest border?" | Anglo-Scottish border | 15 April 2019 |
| 8 | "Why do maps show places that don't exist?" | Trap streets | 13 May 2019 |
| 9 | "Why every world map is wrong" | Map projection | 20 June 2019 |
| 10 | "How did triangles shrink France?" | Cassini map | 7 August 2019 |
| 11 | "The world's silliest time zones" | Time zone anomalies | 2 September 2019 |
| 12 | "The map that saved the most lives" | 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak | 16 November 2020 |
| 13 | "Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?" | British place names | 14 December 2020 |
| 14 | "Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?" | The Soviet Union's maps made during the Cold War | 11 January 2021 |
| 15 | "What will the world look like in 250 million years?" | Continental drift | 15 February 2021 |
| 16 | "Who Owns Antarctica?" | Territorial claims in Antarctica | 15 March 2021 |
| 17 | "The mystery of the squarest country" | Country border shapes (features a song in the style of Horrible Histories parodies) | 12 April 2021 |
| 18 | "Where is America?" | Naming of the Americas | 26 April 2021 |
| 19 | "How do you start a new country?" | Sovereignty | 31 May 2021 |
| 20 | "How many continents are there?" | Number of continents | 28 June 2021 |
| 21 | "The longitude problem: history's deadliest riddle" | Development of the marine chronometer for determining longitude | 28 July 2021 |
| 22 | "English counties explained" | Counties of England | 13 September 2021 |
Politics Unboringed
Politics Unboringed is a series of educational YouTube videos with the first episode uploaded in 2015 and the last in 2017.[19] Each episode is roughly 5 minutes long and handles various topics relating to British politics. In 2021, Foreman indicated in his Stereo podcasts that he intends to not continue the series as he claims that politics does not need to be "unboringed" anymore.
| Part | Title | Subject | Uploaded |
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| 1 | "Whom should I vote for?" | Voting and British political parties | 27 April 2015 |
| 2 | "Is there a good reason for NOT voting?" | Abstention | 27 April 2015 |
| 3 | "What is tactical voting?" | Tactical voting | 28 April 2015 |
| 4 | "Who's in charge of Britain?" | Government of the United Kingdom | 29 April 2015 |
| 5 | "Why don't politicians answer questions?" | Gotcha journalism | 2 May 2015 |
| 6 | "Who is the Speaker of the House of Commons?" | Speaker of the House of Commons | 16 May 2017 |
| 7 | "Why do they make that noise in PMQs?" | Hear, hear and PMQs | 7 June 2017 |
| 8 | "How do you become a Lord?" | Membership of the House of Lords | 31 July 2017 |
Unfinished London
Unfinished London is a series of educational YouTube videos with the first episode uploaded in 2009. Each Unfinished London episode is roughly 10 minutes long and handles a specific area of evolution of London's infrastructure, urban planning and local government. Foreman describes it, on his YouTube description page as "A show about London's quirky, unexplained unbuilt infrastructure, exploring bridges over nothing, tunnels to nowhere, and borders that don't make any sense." The series has guest appearances from Beardyman, Tom Scott, Suzanna Kempner, Mark Silcox, Dan Bull, Stuart Ashen, Hannah Witton, TomSka, Dodie Clark, and Matt Lucas, amongst others. In 2021, Jay Foreman revealed he would be continuing the series in 2021-2022.[20]
| Part | Title | Subject | Uploaded |
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| 1 | "The Unfinished Northern Line" | Northern Heights plan | 16 December 2009 |
| 2 | "London's unfinished motorways" | London Ringways | 11 March 2011 |
| 3 | "Why does London have so many airports?" | Airports of London | 29 May 2014 |
| 4 | "Why does Heathrow need to expand?" | 25 July 2014 | |
| 5 | "Why isn't cycling normal in London?" | Cycling in London | 15 March 2018 |
| 6 | "Why drivers should want cycle lanes" | 19 April 2018 | |
| 7 | "What happened to London's trams?" | Trams in London | 4 December 2018 |
| 8 | "Where does London stop?" | Creation of Greater London and the London boroughs |
1 March 2019 |
| 9 | "Why does London have 32 boroughs?" | 4 April 2020 | |
| 10 | "What's wrong with London's boroughs?" | 8 May 2020 |
References
- ^ a b "About Jay Foreman". YouTube.
- ^ "TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter". www.twitlonger.com. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ Unfinished London – A Documentary by Jay Foreman (beardyman's brother) and Paul Kendler. Beardyman. 18 December 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ Foreman, Jade [@Jade_Nagi] (14 June 2019). "Two big announcements!!! 💕 🔑 🏠 🥂 🍾 💍 👰🏻 💕 https://t.co/ZOGZOIKwUz" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^ Foreman, Jay [@jayforeman] (8 August 2021). "Wife! https://t.co/HPBGiVGGPb" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^ Foreman, Jade [@Jade_Nagi] (9 August 2021). "Thank you so much to Mark and Rachel of @expressionwed They made us photophobes feel so comfortable. Can't wait to see the rest of the results!! 🥰 @ Fanhams Hall https://t.co/xLIwXzHLJA" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^ "TwitLonger — when you talk too much for Twitter".
- ^ "Comedian and musician Jay Foreman winning plaudits after building his career online". Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. 15 July 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
- ^ "Jay Foreman". jayforeman.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 May 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
- ^ Tuborg Musical Comedy Awards Archived 9 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Musical Comedy Awards". 20 August 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "The Answer Me This! Players". answermethispodcast.com. 2 January 2007.
- ^ "Jay Foreman on tour with Dave Gorman! |". www.dittoproductions.co.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ^ "The Election Xplained". Archived from the original on 13 May 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
- ^ Solutions, Powder Blue Internet Business. "Jay Foreman, comedian tour dates : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ "Jay Foreman: 'One of the most fun things about performing for kids is that it's impossible to out-gross them'". The List. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20090309182213/http://www.youtube.com/user/jayforeman51
- ^ "Jay Foreman's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) – Social Blade Stats". socialblade.com. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ How do you become a Lord?. Jay Foreman. 31 July 2017. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbbQalJ4OaC0oQ0AqRaOJ9g/community?lb=Ugxpi_XiPUyXOUhmaJx4AaABCQ
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