Worst Foot Forward

*TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 19th FEBRUARY 2023 @ 8.40pm:  https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ Inspired by some more contemporary controversy coming out of the House of Windsor, Ben and Barry examine the work of a more infamous royal whackjob. In 1597 James VI of Scotland released a treatise on necromancy, witchcraft, and how best to ward o...

*TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 19th FEBRUARY 2023 @ 8.40pm: https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/* Got ourselves a crying, walking, sleeping, talking, living doll in the form of Dr. Kit Chapman returning to the show this week with a world of creepiness to explore. As we hunt down the world's worst doll, we uncover the second life of composer Al...

*TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 19th FEBRUARY 2023 @ 8.40pm: https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ Quick! Play this podcast at 50 miles per hour or your device will explode! Join us on this white-knuckle ride as we hunt down the World's Worst Thriller in the company of comedian Daman Bamrah. It's an episode full of ills rather than thrills and s...

*TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 19th FEBRUARY 2023 @ 8.40pm: https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ It's the most podcasty time of the year as we do our annual roundup of our favourite, funniest and factiest moments from the past twelve months worth of episodes. Thanks to all our guests who joined us in 2022, especially to those who appear in thi...

COME SEE OUR LIVE SHOW AT VAULT FESTIVAL NEXT YEAR! SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19TH, 8:40PM IN WATERLOO:   https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ It's time for some wayward festive cheer as we're joined by rising sketch stars Rosie and Sully of Grubby Little Mitts to nail down the absolute worst parts of Christmas Time. From matchmaking onions to tooled up Santas, Catalonian poop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSOBLhYfaYs  - join us on Monday 12th December at 8.30pm GMT for our Christmas quiz and movie watchalong of "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians"! Click the "Remind Me" button at the link, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @worstfootforward  and bring your best festive cheer! Ahoy there, mateys! We are steering clear of rocks, cliffs and spooky Australian children's s...

COME SEE OUR LIVE SHOW AT VAULT FESTIVAL NEXT YEAR! SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19TH, 8:40PM IN WATERLOO: https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ Join us as we celebrate events preceding the World Cup, Intercalcalated Olympic Games and the FIFI Wild Cup. Anything as a distraction from the repulsive Human Rights Abuse Jamboree currently taking place in Qatar. Listen in and you'll fi...

Once more it's time to put a bit of pep in your step with a sunnyside up episode about the best things in the world. This time we revisit episodes from 2018 to discover the best ever toys, tattoos, musical movies, epidemics (yes, it was tricky to find this one!) and gigs. We bring a cracking mix of prehistoric men, literate adventures, cross-dressing cannibalism and, for once, the Catholic church...

Gazing into our crystal ball, what does the future hold for us? Well, apparently, it's an episode about the World's Worst Fortune Teller with comedian and Tarot officianado Carly Smallman. Carly takes aim at one of the biggest tv psychics in the UK, Barry throws chickens off a ship and Ben goes rogue in the green-grocers. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde   @carlysmallman...

Watch our Hallowe'en Movie Watchalong of "Plan 9 From Outer Space": https://youtu.be/2_FilcFKgEY?t=222   It's Hallowe'en, the most ghastly time of the year, and Ben is taking Barry through a calendar of catastrophe as he looks at the date October 31st through the ages. There are births and deaths, a German werewolf, and a British occultist - all the usual Worst Foot fare! Follow us on Twitter: @wo...

Nuzzle down into your cosiest reading nook, pour an extra large dram of brandy into your hot chocolate and don your favourite cardie as we leaf through the pages to find history's worst novelist. Joined by author, poet, editor and podcast Tim Clare we read the absolute pits of the literary world so you don't have to.  From football manager side projects to prose's answer to William McGonnogal, wit...

It's time from a treat from your podcasting tricksters! Join Barry and Ben for a live streamed movie watchalong! We'll be curling up with popcorn and enjoy the frighteningly bad  Plan 9 From Outer Space , Ed Wood's monstrously mish-mash masterpiece. Join us on Thursday 27th October at 8.30pm BST on the Worst Foot Forward YouTube Channel , where you can watch and chat along with us. To find us on Y...

All rise for the dishonourable pair of Barry and Ben, joined by the arbitrary comedian and barrister Chris Kehoe for an episode all about the World's Worst Judge. There are fuddy-duddy judges with disdain for pop culture, American judges with a flair for sentencing and the clash between a punk hero and an icon of daytime TV: Johnny Rotten v Judge Judy. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @...

With the UK gripped by Queuemania in the wake of the death of the Queen, with some people waiting over 24 hours in line to view her coffin lying in state, Barry takes Ben on a winding journey through some facts about queuing. There are formulae for calculating wait times, the rules for waiting at Wimbledon and Soviet hamburgers. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde   Follow...

This week we've raided the vaults to find the sunnyside option in our choice for fictional children, death scene, cult, president and fan fiction. It takes us a merry dance through the worlds of 1920s gangsters, the suspiciously unsinister side of Japanese neo-religions and the ever-reliable imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Follow us on Twitter:  @worstfoot   @bazmcstay   @benvandervelde   J...

Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde   To trivia...and beyond! The podcast goes galactic this week with an episode about the World's Worst Planet and yes, we know, if you have a problem with the show's naming convention you're too late. We're 259 episodes in, we ain't going back now! Alongside us is astrophysicist Dr. Alfredo Carpineti who explains to us EXACTLY what a plane...

*Note to self: Remember to insert witty explanation about this Third Foot bonus episode about Procrastination before release* Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde   Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot   Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like...

Don't panic! Well actually, do panic a little bit.  For this special Patreon episode Ben and Barry have cornered real live climate scientist and comedian Matt Winning to find out how bad the climate catastrophe really is (bad) and how farcical it could otherwise have been (very). We discover the comet madness that gripped the world in 1910, the dangers of angering floating brains in space, a Germa...

FIND DETAILS OF ALL PAST WFF GUESTS AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE 2022 ON OUR SPREADSHEET: https://www.docdroid.net/UHLaiVx/worst-foot-forward-guests-at-edfringe-2022-pdf   With a sweltering August, Ben on holiday and Barry performing his civid duty, the boys are taking a well earned hiatus. However, the pod-gods demand sacrifices and here we present at their altar a compilation episode! It contains som...

Vote Worst Foot! We are waving banners, sporting rosettes and handing out manifestos written on the back of cigarette packets which week as we campaign for our candidates to be the World's Worst Political Party. We have Mark Thomas as our guest alongside us on the hustings, a political comedian of the highest calibre who tells us about his own experience of running for election and lots more besid...

Our monthly bonus episode sees us dive deeper into the life of a figure who we discussed in our World's Worst Inventor episode, Captain Richard Pockrich. The Irish eccentric proposed putting wings on all the adults in Ireland, blood transfusions to promote immortality and also invented the eery glass harp, that musical instrument beloved of spooky and hypnotic types. He's going to be a hero in our...

Well suckle a she-wolf, it's time for an episode all about preposterous national wolves. We fly around the globe with our mind (but in the way the Kims of North Korea claim to be able to) as we encounter unlikely Celtic connections in the Americas, the horrifying domino effect of Turkey's claim to be the root of all language and some quite astonishing revelations about Her Majesty the Queen. Follo...

We are halfway through Wimbledon, one of the great sporting tournaments of the year. It seems appropriate to embrace our competitive spirits and discuss the World's Worst Tournament in the company of comedian, board gamer and FIFA Men's World Cup nerd James Cook. James tells us all about Mussolini's hosting skills, Ben waves a knight around on the end of a lance and Barry tells the touching story...

It's the longest day of the year - which just means more time to listen to podcasts! Ben and Barry are here to brighten your day with a bonus episode all about the Midsummer Festival. We slide up and down the Swedish Maypole, smack ourselves in the face with Portuguese leeks and hammers, and we criticise Doctor Johnson's bonfire. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde   Follow...

Join us in a muddy ruck on the halfway line as we get down to the mucky business of finding the worst rugby XV of all time, in the company of award-winning Liverpudlian comic Sian Davies. We uncover the dark, bloody (and occassionally noble) histoy of rugby, as well as the dictators who had a penchant for a scrum and why the key to success includes a skill for amateur theatre. Follow us on Twitter...