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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. Jay began performing comedy songs on acoustic guitar in 2005 at the University of York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jay Foreman )〕 A lot of his live performances at University were filmed by York Student Television and made available online, gaining him a wide audience. He has since been featured as ''BBC New Talent Pick of the Fringe 2007'', won 'Best Newcomer' at the ''Tuborg Musical Comedy awards 2009''〔(Tuborg Musical Comedy Awards )〕 and came third at the ''Musical Comedy Awards 2010''. He has appeared several times at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe including three solo musical comedy shows, ''Pretend You're Happy'' in 2010, ''We're Living in the Future'' in 2011 and ''No More Colours'' in 2013. Jay Foreman's song ''Moon Chavs'' became a viral hit on YouTube, with more than two hundred different videos uploaded, totalling 2 million views. Another of Jay's songs, ''Stealing Food'', was covered and played regularly by musical comedy veterans Kit and The Widow in their 2008 tour.〔(Jay Foreman's biography on Comedy CV )〕 Jay 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.〔http://www.parliament.uk/education/online-resources/videos/the-general-election-xplained/〕 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!.〔(Answer Me This! Players )〕 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== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jay Foreman (comedian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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