Comedy 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. Foreman presented
The General Election Xplained, a series of educational videos to explain the election process for schoolchildren in
Key Stages 3 to
5. 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. Jay Foreman's songs have featured on
BBC Radio 4,
Radio 4 Extra,
The One Show, and
London Live.
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. In September 2025, the name of the channel was changed from "Jay Foreman" to "Jay and Mark" to represent Mark Cooper-Jones's involvement, particularly in the web series 'Map Men'.
Unfinished London Unfinished London is an educational mini-series which premiered in 2009. Foreman created and co-writes the series with Paul Kendler, who often features within the episodes themselves. , there are 15 episodes, with the most recent being released 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.
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." which premiered in 2016. Foreman writes and presents the show with its co-creator Mark Cooper-Jones. A mix of
comedy and
geography, its videos regularly attract 1–5 million views on
YouTube. In October 2025, the duo released the book
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters). ==Personal life==