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Jay Foreman (comedian)
English comedian, YouTuber and musician (born 1984) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jay Benjamin Foreman (born 4 October 1984) is an English comedian, YouTuber, educator, cartography enthusiast, and singer-songwriter.
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Early life
Jay Benjamin Foreman[2] was born on 4 October 1984.[3] He was raised in a Jewish household in Stanmore, London, with his brother and sister.[4] His brother Darren is a beatboxer and musician going under the pseudonym Beardyman.[5]
From 1996 to 2003, Foreman was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School,[6] a state grammar school for boys in Barnet, north London, followed by the University of York, where he began performing comedy songs on acoustic guitar in 2005.[7]
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Foreman was featured as the BBC New Talent Pick of the Fringe 2007, won Best Newcomer at the Tuborg Musical Comedy awards 2009,[8] and came third at the Musical Comedy Awards 2010.[9]
In 2009, Foreman contributed jingles to the weekly comedy podcast Answer Me This!,[10] and in 2011 and 2012, supported comedian Dave Gorman on Dave Gorman's PowerPoint Presentation tour.[11]
Foreman presented The General Election Xplained, a series of educational videos to explain the election process for schoolchildren in Key Stages 3 to 5.[12]
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.[13]
Jay Foreman's songs have featured on BBC Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, The One Show, and London Live.[14]
YouTube
Foreman created his YouTube channel in April 2006. Its content focuses on a variety of comic educational series such as Unfinished London, Politics Unboringed, and Map Men (presented with Mark Cooper-Jones), as well as music videos for his songs and clips from his comedy shows.
Unfinished London
Unfinished London was an educational mini-series which premiered first in 2009 and was a 15 episode mini-series ending in 2022. The series premiered on YouTube with each episode or set of handling a specific area of the evolution of London's infrastructure, urban planning, and local government. The series was initially only meant to exist as a single episode to function as a skills showcase but the reception convinced Foreman to continue making them for over a decade, concluding in late 2022.[15]
Politics Unboringed
Politics Unboringed was a series of educational YouTube videos that ran between 2015 and 2017. Each episode is roughly five minutes long and handles various topics relating to British politics. Foreman has no plans to bring the series back, stating that "with everything that’s going on, I now find it impossible, irresponsible even, to maintain the cheery, neutral tone that the series used to have."[15]
Map Men
Map Men is an edutainment mini-series[16][17] which premiered in 2016, and is currently in its fourth season. Foreman writes and presents the show with its co-creator Mark Cooper-Jones.[16][17][18] A mix of comedy and geography,[18] its videos regularly attract 1–5 million views on YouTube.[16][17][19] In 2025, the duo announced plans to release a "Map Men Book" to be released in Autumn of that year.
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Filmography
Personal life
Foreman married Jade Nagi in 2021.[20] They have two children: a son, born in July 2022 and another son, born November 2023.[21][22] He also has two siblings; a brother and a sister.[23] Foreman's family is Jewish, and in a statement written for the London Jewish News in 2018, he described his fondness for his family's Jewish traditions, even though Foreman himself is an atheist (see Jewish atheism).[23]
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