Jay Foreman | |
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Born |
Stanmore, Middlesex, England |
4 October 1984
Origin | Stanmore, North London, UK |
Instruments | Guitar |
Jay Foreman (born 4 October 1984) is a British musical comedian based in London. He has performed four critically acclaimed sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which include Disgusting Songs For Revolting Children (And Other Funny Stories), No More Colours and Mixtape.
Foreman began performing comedy songs on acoustic guitar in 2005 at the University of York. He was featured as 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 he contributed jingles to the weekly comedy podcast Answer Me This!.
In 2011 and 2012 he supported comedian Dave Gorman on 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.
On YouTube, Foreman has more than 150,000 subscribers. His video Singing one Syllable Out-of-Sync went viral, and gained more than 3.2 million views.
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.
His brother is the musician and beatboxer Beardyman.