Jay Foreman (comedian)
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 Foreman in 2011 | ||||||||||
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| Born | 4 October 1984[1] Stanmore, London, England | |||||||||
| Instruments | Guitar | |||||||||
| Years active | 2005–present | |||||||||
| Website | jayforeman | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2006—present | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 1.0 million[2] | |||||||||
| Total views | 121.5 million[2] | |||||||||
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Updated: 14 September 2021 | ||||||||||
Jay Foreman (born 4 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.[3] His brother is beatboxer and musician Darren Foreman, more famously known by his stage name "Beardyman".[4]
In June 2019, Foreman and his partner, Jade Nagi, announced their engagement via Twitter.[5] In August 2021, the couple married at the Fanhams Hall in Ware, Hertfordshire.[6][7]
Education[]
From 1996 to 2003, Foreman was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School,[9] 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.[10]
Career[]
Foreman was featured as the BBC New Talent Pick of the Fringe 2007, won Best Newcomer at the Tuborg Musical Comedy awards 2009[11] and came third at the Musical Comedy Awards 2010.[12]
In 2009, Foreman contributed jingles to the weekly comedy podcast Answer Me This!,[13] and in 2011 and 2012, supported comedian Dave Gorman on Dave Gorman's PowerPoint Presentation tour.[14] 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.[15]
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.[16]
Jay Foreman's songs have been heard on BBC Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, The One Show and London Live TV.[17]
YouTube[]
Foreman created his YouTube channel in April 2006, originally under the name "jayforeman51".[18] 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.[19]
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.
Politics Unboringed[]
Politics Unboringed is a series of educational YouTube videos with the first episode uploaded in 2015 and the last in 2017.[20] 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.
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.[21]
References[]
- ^ @jayforeman (4 October 2020). "I am now the same age as Homer Simpson" (Tweet). Retrieved 19 September 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ Foreman, Jade [@Jade_Nagi] (14 June 2019). "Two big announcements!!!