Instruments Guitar Siblings Beardyman | Role Musician Name Jay Foreman | |
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Born 4 October 1984 (age 40) ( 1984-10-04 ) Albums Offal, 20 Songs, No More Colours, Pretend You're Happy Similar People Beardyman, Frisky & Mannish, Mitch Benn, Andrew O'Neill, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer | ||
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.
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Early life
Jay Foreman was born to a Jewish family in Stanmore, North London. His brother is Darren Foreman, known as Beardyman, the British beatboxer, multivocalist, musician and comedian, with whom he sometimes collaborates onstage.
Education
From 1996—2003, Foreman was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, a state grammar school for boys in Chipping Barnet (often abbreviated to '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 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.
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.