Jay Foreman (comedian)

Jay Foreman

Hammersmith Apollo, 24 November 2011
Background information
Born (1984-10-04) 4 October 1984
Stanmore, Middlesex, England
Origin Stanmore, North London, UK
Instruments Guitar

Jay Foreman (born 4 October 1984) is a British musical comedian based in London. His brother is the musician and beatboxer Beardyman. They have collaborated on stage several times.

Foreman began performing comedy songs on acoustic guitar in 2005 at the University of York.[1] He has since been featured as BBC New Talent Pick of the Fringe 2007, won 'Best Newcomer' at the Tuborg Musical Comedy awards 2009[2] and came third at the Musical Comedy Awards 2010.

He has appeared several times at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Foreman also works as a voiceover artist and presenter. His online documentary series Unfinished London led to various presenting roles, including 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.[3] Continuing with the election theme he produced a series of comedy documentary videos 'Politics Unboringed' in the run up to the 2015 UK General Election.

In 2009 he contributed jingles to the weekly comedy podcast Answer Me This!.[4]

In 2011 and 2012 he supported comedian Dave Gorman on his "Dave Gorman's Powerpoint Presentation" tour.

In 2014, Foreman began contributing regular topical comedy songs on "Not The One Show", a magazine programme on London Live.

References

  1. "Jay Foreman". jayforeman.co.uk. Archived from the original on May 15, 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
  2. Tuborg Musical Comedy Awards Archived May 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20110513144734/http://www.parliament.uk/education/online-resources/videos/the-general-election-xplained/. Archived from the original on May 13, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "The Answer Me This! Players". answermethispodcast.com.
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