Comedian Jay Foreman Claims He Knows Every London Tube Station, But Does He? 

How impressed are you with Jay's skills?

It's interesting, that to those of us around the world and online, Jay Foreman is 100x more famous than this show or anyone else on it.

If that guy knows so much about maps and London, he should make a youtube channel

Nice to see Jay invite a guest and audience on his show.

If one Map Man can do this, imagine what they could achieve with two.

At first I was expecting Jay to have invented a spoof game show, and then I realised we weren't on his channel.

Us Londoners know that the quickest way from Victoria to Queensway is circle to Bayswater and a short walk to Queensway. And I could see that Jay knew it too but for the sake of the game he went for the longer route. What a legend.

When the participant is more well known than the person presenting the program

Truly a map man

He should make a mini series where he partners up with a guy with prominent eyebrows. He could call it directional paper fellows

I think this is much more impressive then regular talent shows participants, since three amount of combinations is not possible to remember by heart each, but rather visualise the tube map as a whole to track down the fastest way. Most other challenger I’ve seen on such tv formats just learn a long list by heart.

Jay's knowledge is amazing. I would imagine that bring on this show, his inner voice was saying, 'you can tolerate Mulhern for just a little longer, it's worth a stack of cash'

Jay Foreman is an absolutely top man.

I love him. It’s so funny to see him “out of character” and smiling too!

Ironic that the last question was involving Mill Hill East, because it was in the first Unfinished London episode

I love how the Technical Difficulties have repeatedly made fun of Stephen Mulhern, when thanks to this show and Jay they have one degree of separation from Stephen Mulhern.

It's very strange seeing Jay awkward and nervous interacting with the normieverse when you know he is an Internet superstar and legend.

Jay is one of my favourite RU-vidrs. Total legend.

good god how i HAAAATE this host and his "suspense building" pauses

Jesus the mistakes were either “oh, I need to get off here and take the district” - he’s physically on the right track already - or mishearing something. Thankfully he was so fast justice could prevail in the end.

Always so weird to see online creators in a classic TV format

Genuinely happy for Jay. What a great guy

Jay Foreman is quite possibly the most quintessential English man in England.

Geoff Marshall would be proud.

Is anyone unsettled by the fact that Jay is just a normal bloke in real life?

i knew jay was tube smart but that blew my mind, super impressive.

All i got from this is that Jay Foreman votes for the Stripy Party.

Does this mean Jay has finally finished London?

Geoff Marshall definitely wants to battle Jay 😂😂😂

There was a time I could nearly do this for New York. For many stations I'd even be able to tell you where to stand on the platform to make the connections most easily. I moved away 8 years ago. Now I sometimes have to look at a map.

I've never heard of the show but people are really underestimating how well know Steven Mulhern is

Once a Mapman. Always a mapmen!

Of all the map men in the world, Jay is definitely one.

Every tourist searching for jays number

He had to sprinkle a couple of wring ones in so they didn't find out he's an absolute legend.

I tried this out too by pausing the video after each question - it was so fun! However, I am slightly confused by this. One, the criterion is that the “quickest route” is the one with the fewest changes, not necessarily the fewest stops (which would be better). Two, based on this rule, Jay’s final answer was actually incorrect - for the fewest changes, you should take the Northern Line to Waterloo or London Bridge and change for the Jubilee line to Swiss Cottage.

"Is he really a map man?" How dare you even try to question that; he is one of only two true Map Men

I've never seen this show but it reminds me of YouBet from the 80s - the one I always remember from that show is a guy who could identify any car whilst blindfolded by the door closing. That was like 40 years ago I've never forgotten it lol

I am really glad for that show, they finally got the attention because of a guest

I can do the same thing with the Paris metro and I can tell you, this is a very useful skill to have when you take the metro a lot, you never need to look at the map to find your way

What a great guy. Truly inspirational.

Honestly even if he wouldn't have gotten the fastest route and just simply found A path from every station to the other would already have been impressive

This is something I relate to so much. I would genuinely love to be able to win money by naming fastest routes between tube stations.

They’re either gonna go, “that’s quite an impressive feat of memory” or they’re gonna look at me and go, “what a nerd”. Porque no los dos? What an impressive nerd! 😉😂 Seriously tho, he’s a legend.

You know, it's funny: I couldn't imagine this question ever being asked on a game show about New York.

This is well done. The advanced level has to do with where to stand on the platform (looking ahead to the change), where you do not want to change due to too much walking (looking at you Green Park), and where you should get off and hoof it. But he’s done much, much better than I could have.

We need someone like Jay for New York City's subway line.

It's quite impressive, but he's got plenty of sick musical skills too

Next guest spot for Jay, Taskmaster! (fingers crossed)

You didn't mark his second answer, for Neasden to Angel. He actually got it wrong though, because he said you take the Jubilee Line from Neasden to Waterloo, then the Northern Line, but this requires an extra change at Kennington to the other branch of the Northern Line. You pass through fewer stations while still making 2 changes if you take the Jubilee Line to Finchley Road, then the Metropolitan Line to King's Cross St Pancras, then the Northern line to Angel.

It's funny that at 7:05 you can see his face realising it's definitely not the quickest route by a large amount and then Stephen says you were correct and Jay did a massive supprised face lol. Choosing the routes with the fewest changes doesn't mean the quickest so it's weird the show did it like that but oh well. And now with the Elizabeth Line there's probably some routes to Ealing Broadway that would be twice as fast as the next quickest alternative but would count as a wrong answer on the show lol. Still cool though.

Well done Jay. Love your RU-vid videos. So well researched and informative. I got the Ruislip Garden to Upney (1 change at Mile End). Coz I use that route (not necessary those stations).

Oh my god I was at the recording of this episode but before I'd even heard of Jay Foreman! 🤦‍♀️

That's some impressive custom graphics for one game show segment.

The Piccadilly line does stop at Ravenscourt Park, there are very infrequent stops there in the early morning or late at night, or sometimes when there are engineering works. Source: used to be my local tube stop!

Jay Foreman, the Tube, Stephen Mulhern & game show all in one video? Literally my dream vid!

Jay Foreman is one of the best person RU-vid.

The moment they chose him for this show, they were down 1,000 pounds.

truly one of the map men of all time

A god tier RU-vidr and a man you often see on the likes of Catchphrase and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway - this is the crossover I didn't know I needed.

Here I am with Google telling me every single next stop :) This man is a legend ! I like his mapmen channel too.

This man knows about maps! He's one of many map men, map men, map men, map men, map men men men men

I've just stumbled upon this video and this is unbelievable.😯

I have the same talent but with the Helsinki Underground. There are 30 stations and two lines which in reality are just a single line.

What a witty intelligent guy

strewth, imagine the speed his brain's working at and calculating the answer. IMPRESSED.

i just love the fact that it's only 1000 pounds. it sounds like so little for a show like this

He's a map man. What did you expect?

When the guest is far more famous than the show ever will be

how impressed are we with the hosts memorising words then looking at camera skill :)

Ive never been to the UK. So now its my dream to visit the UK, travel in the tube in London and meet Jay Foreman while doing so.

I wonder if Geoff Marshall Or Jago Hazzard would have done as well ?

Thank you for letting Jay out on day release to participate

Somehow I think Jay and Geoff Marshall would blow this challenge out of the water.

"Touching Jay on the shoulder" could be a drinking challenge.

I would say that Jay Foreman is too famous for this show. :D

New challenge for Jay: now learn all of this using ONLY wheelchair accessible stations! 😉

Love the Madness at the beginning

Neasden to Angel: Get the grey-coloured line (Which is Jubilee) and switch to the pink-coloured line. (Which is Hammersmith and City) Then, you can take the Northern line via King's Cross St. Pancras and get to Angel station. Kenton to East Finchley: Have the Jubilee line and switch to Hammersmith and City line. Take the Northern line via Easton and take left or right track on the start of the Southern section of that line. Thus, get via right lane and enter East Finchley. Hammersmith to Marble Arch: Simple! You can take Piccadilly to Holborn and switch to the orange-coloured line (Which is Central) then stop to the Marble Arch. Simple one! Of course, I am a Jay Foreman fan and I message this for you my fellows to know the London Underground!

Never doubted my man's skill with a map!

It's cool the the tenth one was the Northern Line and Mill Hill East, the subject of the first Unfinished London.

I reckon he’s gonna do it, go on Jay!

Fan fuct… sorry - fun fact… When Jay wears that tee shirt his surname changes to ‘Quatre-Homme’

As an American, I have no idea what is happening, but I'm just glad they're having a good time

Well that was a fever dream! I must have missed that episode when it aired

This quiz would have been much easier if they'd used the Glasgow Underground.

Useful friend to have indeed

Boy all that pressure and everything give the fella at least a few thousand pounds. He did incredibly well considering all the eyes on him.

That challege is sooo hard. It is worth way more than £1000

Just me yelling at the telly that Jay could've changed to the Jubilee line at Baker Street for Swiss Cottage? Because its the same amount of stops i guess they still counted that double-back from Finchley Road as a correct answer, still a winner!

Was the last answer correct though? If the deciding factor for the best rout is the fewest changes, then you could change directly from the Northern Line to the Jubilee London Bridge (or Waterloo, I don't know about the service pattern of the Northern Line at Camden Town). Which is one change less than the two Jay gave.

Never even heard of this show before, came for Jay

I'm shocked he got two wrong 😅

LOVE JAYYYY

You've got a genuinely talented guy like Jay, getting mugged off by a complete tool in Mulhern.

why is him knowing those routes so confidently kinda attractive

Brilliant stuff

It's Jayf Orman!

They cut out Kenton to East Finchley in the review... where he said to go via Embankment xdd 3:43

For a moment I read "Canadian" instead of "Comedian" and felt very betrayed