It's here! After what feels like a longer than usual 14 months, here, finally is the next instalment of Map Men. Thank you ever so much for your patience!
This episode is all about the very famous 1854 map of Soho that proved the existence of germs. (Well, that's a massively gross generalisation squeezed into one sentence. The episode is more like a mild generalisation squeezed into an e...
Someone commented on a video the other day saying “Where are you? What happened to you? Why no new videos for ages? Are you dead?” I phoned and told her she can pick up the phone to her son whenever she likes (a ha ha ha ha ha) but, if we can be serious for a moment, the time has now come for a very long overdue update on how Map Men series 3 is coming along.
The writing stage is now ...
2020-09-21 11:30:20 +0000 UTC View Post
HELLO!!! Long time no Patreon Post!
How've you been? How's lockdown been treating you?
I thought now was as good a time as any to give you a bit of an update on how things are going up my end.
Mark and I are, these days, having regular (more than weekly) Zoom meetings during which we sit down and work on scripts for series 3 of Map Men. We're aiming big this time - if all ...
I had a thought the other day... you guys are technically my bosses. You pay my salary, it's my job to do what you've paid me to do, and if I don't do it properly, you can have me fired. I imagine you like Mr. Spacely from the Jetsons jumping up and down behind your desk and shouting "YOU'RE FIRED!!" with your moustache going all bristly.
I'm getting massively side-tracked. The point is,...
Set your toasters to excited… cos episode 10 of Unfinished London is very very VERY nearly finished!
It’ll be uploaded in the next few days. I can’t say exactly when, cos there’s still about 12 little things to do, and I don’t know how long they’ll take me, but keep checking here on Patreon every 10 seconds for the next week to see if it’s arrived yet. And of course, when t...
It’s here... the brand new episode of Unfinished London!
Remember last year, in the video about Greater London, the bit that says “London was also divided into 32 new boroughs, but that’s a story for another time.”? Well, that time, if you’re reading this right now, is right now! This episode is all about London’s 32 boroughs, specifically how they came into being, why there a...
2020-04-02 22:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostDarling Patron,
(No. “Darling” is too strong… erm…)
Hi Patron,
(No, that’s boring… errr….)
OHHHHHHHHH Patron,
(Perfect!)
I thought since it’s both Christmas AND a long while since we last spoke, now was a good time to send y’alls a message with some updates and some things. There are FOUR of them. Here they are in numerical order......
Hello. It's been more than a month since I last uploaded a video, so I thought, just in case some of you were going "where's the latest video?" now was a good time to fill you in on what's going on, and what you can expect from my channel over the coming months.
Paul and I are working on...
I've just realised, I keep mentioning Paul in these posts, and I haven't actually taken the...
Awwwwwwwwww hello!
Because I love each and every one of you so much (not in that way), here is an exclusive link to the last ever episode of Map Men from series 2, days before anyone else can see it.
Will there ever be a series 3?
Yes.
What maps will you be talking about in series 3?
We’ve got a few ideas, but you can never have...
2019-08-31 19:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I want to say something very serious... I'm doing my very serious face... because this is so very serious.
Yesterday, when I made the credits sequence for this episode of Map Men, where I list all of you lovely lovely people, I realised an important thing. Each and every individual single one of you is just absolutely wonderful! It is quite literally because of you and your really genero...
Here's a rather exciting notion.... you get to watch this BRAND NEW episode of Map Men before anyone else..... INCLUDING MARK COOPER-JONES!!!!
That's right! Mark hasn't seen this yet. I've sent this off to him now for his approval. You never know... he might not like it, and he might make me change bits... and if he does, you'll see what they are in a day or two. But he won't see it for ...
As an extra special treat to say thank you for being a Patreon patron patrn, here is an extra special treat… a DELETED SCENE from this week’s episode of Map Men.
This scene contained A LOT of mistakes. Can you spot them all? Correct! They are....
1. I got the year wrong. It wasn't 1936. It was 1978. Visibly so.
2. I got the fact wrong. He wasn't a sports fan, he was a...
EEEEEEEK!!!!
It's a brand, brand, brand new episode of Map Men! And you get to see it first! Before anyone else!!!
This one's all about trap streets.... the hidden deliberate mistakes publishers put in their maps to make sure no one copies them.
See if you can spot not one, but TWO references in this video to one of my favourite YouTube channels, Geography Now. The fi...
I've got two really important things to say. They're both really important, and I want to say both of them now.
1. This is the new episode of Map Men. I hope you like it. Mark and I worked very very hard on it. Watch and enjoy! But, and here's the really important bit.... SSSSSSHHHHHH!!! It's a secret. Don't share it with anyone. This is just our secret. The more you share it with peopl...
You guys are my favourite! Thank you so so so so much for being my Patreon patrons. Because of you, I'm literally able to do this job, and if it weren't for you, I'd literally be not able to do this job. You guys really are the absolute best!
As a way of saying thank you, what I'd like to do is offer you the next episode of Unfinished London RIGHT NOW!!! Other people who aren't signed up...
This is a completely true thing that happened just now... I was sitting in a cafe with my headphones on, adding the subtitles to yesterday's video, when suddenly I thought of a really brilliant pun that I should have used. I liked it so much, that I snapped my laptop shut, rushed home, got my microphone out of the cupboard, rerecorded the voiceover, and uploaded it again with the new pun.
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It's here, and it's all about trams! I hope you like trams, cos that's what this episode of Unfinished London is all about. If you don't like trams, you really won't like this. It's chock full of them.
Actually, that's a bit unfair. We deliberately made this series so it appeals to people who don't care about the subject matter, and come to think of it, this video contains surprisingly fe...
2018-12-03 20:51:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember Bec Hill, off of the recent video I did with Bec Hill? She's back again! She's done the same thing as last time... turned one of my songs into something way way better by adding her trademark paper puppetry. This one's about the Robot Olympics!
(This is based on a real news story by the way, from one of the years between 2012 and 2016... can't remember which, but it was thereabout...
Hello Patreon Patron! How've you been? I've missed you. What have you been up to? Oh great! Really? Uh huh... uh huh... Oooooh! That sounds nice.... right.... I see.... Oh.... Oh... Sorry to hear that.... Haha! Still! Well..... Yeah I know, something similar happened to me, it turned out fine in the end... Haha! Great.
Me? Oh, LOADS!!....
I'm working on lots of new videos, some are ...
Well I mean, there's not much more I can say here really... the title of this post tells you everything you need to know... this is episode 6 of Unfinished London, and you get to see it before anyone else.
Although, a couple of things...
1. I haven't done the subtitles or the buttons, or the end screen yet. I'll do those in a bit...
and, more importantly,
2. The video...
You know Bec Hill? As in the comedian Bec Hill who does paper-slidey animations? Well, animations isn’t the right word, they’re more like pop up books on flip charts. Anyway. Her. You know her?
She’s done a flip chart for my song ‘Dinosaurs’ and it’s really good.
Actually she did it ages ago way back in 1978, but it was filmed with a dodgy camera in the dark with the wron...
Hello Patron! That’s you, that is. Yes, you. I’m speaking to only one of you... YOU!!! Hello. Smiley face emoji.
What I’ve done is I’ve uploaded a new video. But I haven’t done the thumbnail yet, or sorted out the subtitles, or done that thing at the end where it says “click here to see other, different videos etc”. But I’ll do it later. I’m on holiday. (I literally am. I...
It's been about 3 years since the last episode of Unfinished London... which means.... it's time for a new episode of Unfinished London!
This one's about bikes.
I just want to say, to each and every one of you* thank you! Thank you SO SO much!! Thank you thank you thank you for your donations. Without you, I wouldn't be able to spend the time making these videos. They take so v...
I went into a gentleman's club,
And wasn't I delighted,
I'd sneaked myself into the building,
Totally uninvited.
The gentlemen were sat in their
ch... I saw as ... loo... grrr.. b.......
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(If you want to hear the rest of the song sung PROPERLY, then watch this video! No one else gets to see it f...
In the next episode of Unfinished London (which I'm hoping to upload one month from now) there's going to be a bit where loads of cyclists cycle past and my voiceover says...
"These people aren't cyclists.... they're teachers, doctors, lawyers, students, systems analysts, chartered quantity surveyors and porn stars."
But we can do better than that! What's your job? I want that list ...
Hi. How are you? You’re looking well!
This is a super-secret-special private video ONLY for you, my wonderful (thank you!) Patreon supporters. This, unlike what usually happens around here, isn’t going to be private for 24 hours and then go public… this will NEVER go public… it’s an **EXCLUSIVE** video only for you that only you can watch ever.
It’s a full...
2018-01-16 17:22:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Look what I found....
http://thecuspmagazine.com/features/jay-foreman-profile/
I completely forgot about this. This is an interview for a music magazine I did last year.
Look at all those big words I apparently used. I don’t remember using any of those big words. This...
2018-01-13 14:27:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon Patrons Patrnssss,
This happened last night.
It's a monthly musical comedy night in London called 'The Distraction Club' where the UK's musical comedians gather for what more closely resembles a party that an audience happens to be watching than a gig. It's always immense fun, and we're always encouraged to try new things and collaborate with each other on stage. (Musical c...
I'm off... I'm off... I'm off in a motorcar... Sixty bobbies are after me and I don't know where I am...
By which I mean, I'm taking my twice sell-out Edinburgh Fringe family-friendly show 'Jay Foreman's Disgusting Songs for Revolting Children' on a tour of the UK!
It's not just for kids, it's for massive kids too (grown-ups). I'm hoping to see quite literally every single one of you...
Here is an unlisted video that only you really nice Patreon people* can see. Other people who aren't Patreon people** don't get to see this for another 24 hours.
It's one of the depressingest song I've ever written: 'Pretend You're Happy'.
Thanks to the good people at ComComedy for letting me put this on my channel. :)
Hope you're enjoying the bit between Christmas and New Yea...