Jay Foreman (comedian)
Jay Foreman is an English comedian, singer-songwriter and YouTuber.
Early life
Jay Foreman was born to a Jewish family in Stanmore, North London. His brother is Darren Foreman, a British beatboxer, multi-vocalist, musician and comedian, with whom he sometimes collaborates onstage.Education
From 1996 to 2003, Foreman was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, a state grammar school for boys in Chipping Barnet in North West London, followed by the University of York, where he began performing comedy songs on acoustic guitar in 2005.Life and career
Foreman was featured as the BBC New Talent Pick of the Fringe 2007, won Best Newcomer at the Tuborg Musical Comedy awards 2009 and came third at the Musical Comedy Awards 2010.In 2009, Foreman contributed jingles to the weekly comedy podcast Answer Me This!, and in 2011 and 2012, supported comedian Dave Gorman on Dave Gorman's PowerPoint Presentation tour. In 2014, he began contributing regular topical comedy songs on Not The One Show, a magazine programme on London Live.
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.
For several years, he has also performed shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which include Disgusting Songs For Revolting Children , No More Colours and Mixtape.
In June 2019 Jay became engaged to Jade Nagi.
Jay Foreman's songs have been heard on BBC Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, The One Show and London Live TV.
YouTube
Foreman created his YouTube channel in April 2006. It contains various clips from his comedy shows, tongue-in-cheek educational series such as Map Men, Politics Unboringed and Unfinished London, and music videos for his songs.''Map Men''
Map Men is a series of educational YouTube videos co-presented with Mark Cooper-Jones. The series premiered in 2016 and consists of around 5 minutes long videos about specific maps and abnormalities considering them.| Part | Title | Subject | Uploaded |
| 1 | "Bir Tawil – the land that nobody wants" | Bir Tawil | 4 May 2016 |
| 2 | "Mappa Mundi – the worst world map?" | 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 | "Berlin Wall – Maps With Gaps" | Old East German maps leaving blank space 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 |
''Politics Unboringed''
Politics Unboringed is a series of educational YouTube videos with the first episode uploaded in 2015. Each episode is roughly 5 minutes long and handles various topics relating to British politics.| Part | Title | Subject | Uploaded |
| 1 | "Who's in charge of Britain?" | Government of the United Kingdom | 29 April 2015 |
| 2 | "Whom should I vote for?" | Voting and British political parties | 27 April 2015 |
| 3 | "Is there a good reason for NOT voting?" | Abstention | 27 April 2015 |
| 4 | "What is tactical voting?" | Tactical voting | 28 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 politicians make that noise in PMQs?" | Hear, hear | 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."| Part | Title | Subject | Uploaded |
| 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?" | Airports of London | 25 July 2014 |
| 5 | "Why isn't cycling normal in London?" | Cycling in London | 15 March 2018 |
| 6 | "Why drivers should want cycle lanes" | Cycling in London | 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?" | Creation of Greater London and the London Boroughs | 4 April 2020 |
| 10 | "What's wrong with London's boroughs?" | Creation of Greater London and the London Boroughs | 8 May 2020 |