Worst Foot Forward

*BOOK TICKETS TO OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW* - Sunday 20th February 2022, 2.30pm at VAULT Festival, London with special guests Johnny Chiodini and Ellie Gibson:  https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/   Happy Christmas, Merry New Year, Joyful Holidays and whatever you're having yourself. It's been a wild 12 months at Worst Foot Forward towers in a year that saw a lot of lockdo...

*BOOK TICKETS TO OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW* - Sunday 20th February 2022, 2.30pm at VAULT Festival, London with special guests Johnny Chiodini and Ellie Gibson:  https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ Merry Crimbletide everyone! To celebrate the festive rest we all goddamn need, Ben and Barry head down a wormhole of the history of crackers and festive jokes. Follow us on Twitt...

*BOOK TICKETS TO OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW* - Sunday 20th February 2022, 2.30pm at VAULT Festival, London with special guests Johnny Chiodini and Ellie Gibson:  https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording Oh. Sorry. We didn't expect to see you here today of all places and times. Our mistake. Well, never mind, now you're here we may as well try and explain ourselves in this episode...

*BOOK TICKETS TO OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW* - Sunday 20th February 2022, 2.30pm at VAULT Festival, London with special guests Johnny Chiodini and Ellie Gibson:  https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording We're cranking up Edwin Starr up as loud as he'll go, kissing our sweethearts goodbye and marching off to the front line as we present a list of some of the stupidest, strangest a...

*BOOK TICKETS TO OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW* - Sunday 20th February 2022, 2.30pm at VAULT Festival, London with special guests Johnny Chiodini and Ellie Gibson: https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording It's getting cold and dark outside but we are keeping our spirits up with some positive thinking at Worst Foot Forward HQ. We've put together another episode where we return to pas...

*BOOK TICKETS TO OUR NEXT LIVE SHOW* - Sunday 20th February 2022, 2.30pm at VAULT Festival, London with special guests Johnny Chiodini and Ellie Gibson: https://vaultfestival.com/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ This month our bonus episode is inspired by a story several listeners nudged our way about the Georgian physician John Hunter, a man who liked grafting teeth to cockerels, keeping...

This week we're emptying out our recycling bin all over the Worst Foot Table as Barry is busy opening an immersive Doctor Who experience and Ben has ground himself into tiny dust being the dictionary definition of a road comic. To keep you satiated with daft trivia we've strung together some previously unreleased material featuring guests Anuvab Pal tittering with us about empire, Angela Barnes te...

This week we're donning our swords, sandals, pointy helmet, tartan fighting trousers and fascist moustaches as we head to the cinema to grimace through the world's worst historical movies. Joined by historian Dr Kate Vigurs we reveal Larry Olivier's collaboration with the Moonie Church that had him laughing all the way to the bank, the staggering anachronisms upon which Braveheart was built and ho...

We often struggle to keep it clean here on Worst Foot Forward and this week it will be extra hard as we are getting down and dirty with the World's Worst Cleaner. Award-winning playwright Tatty Hennessy is with us to share grubby tales of space and Bitcoin, while Ben finds a terrorist with a yen for cleanliness and Barry tries to clean - and then paint - the tallest building in the world. Follow u...

We hope you have your ear trumpets at the ready for this week's episode as we're joined by comedian, author and care worker Pope Lonergan to talk about the world's worst carer. We take another tap dance along the bleakest of tightropes and use a balancing pole weighted with stories of support peacocks, prince regents and the worst use for a pair of scales in history. Follow us on Twitter:  @worstf...

It's spooky season with Hallowe'en upon us and so there's a funereal tone on Worst Foot Forward this week. With podcaster extraordinaire Pete Donaldson as our chief mourner, we are trying not to trip up the cortege at the World's Worst Funeral. There are wrong bodies, un-dead bodies, exploding bodies and lots more bodies besides. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde   @peted...

Ghosts and ghouls abound in our Hallowe'en special bonus episode which sees us chat about the ouija board, trick-or-treating and the history of pumpkin tossing in North America. Enjoy spooky season folks and to our friends in Utah especially: watch out for any bright orange projectiles. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde   Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/...

This week Ben and Barry take on one of the big three scientific disciplines: chemistry. Accompanied by Dr Kit Chapman, they artfully sidestep the really dark stuff to discover stories of the German who cached gallons of his own urine in the search for phosphorus, Robert Boyle's Buzzfeed article and why you shouldn't let Dmitri Mendeleev anywhere near your wife. Follow us on Twitter:  @worstfoot @b...

Oh what a night! A full 19 months after our first live show, here's our second - our World's Worst Literary Salon with special guests Jay Foreman, Bec Hill and Ria Lina, recorded in front of a REAL ACTUAL PROPER AUDIENCE OF HUMANS on 10th October 2021 at the Backyard Comedy Club in London. Featuring all manner of awfulness, from the poetry of McGonagall to the sex scenes of Morrissey, with a whole...

It's time to lob some merry positivity your way as Ben and Barry reverse the polarity of the podcast and pick their World's Best for the topics covered in those shows. We revisit our discussions with Jamie Stegmaier about games, Daniel Bye about political theatre, Gabriel Ebulue about music videos, Jonny Singer about sporting rules and Glenn Moore about newscasters. As ever, there's great big hair...

Just a little shameless advert to remind you all that we have a live show this coming Sunday, October 10th at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green. Our guests are Bec Hill, Jay Foreman and Ria Lina and they'll be helping us bring to live some awful works of art in our World's Worst Literary Salon. Tickets are available at this link, hope to see a bunch of you there! https://www.tickettailor.c...

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/goodshipcomedy/572834  - BUY TICKETS TO OUR LIVE SHOW IN LONDON ON 10th OCTOBER, with guests BEC HILL, JAY FOREMAN & RIA LINA! This week's episode is full of glamour and snapping flashbulbs as we walk the tattered red carpet in search of the World's Worst Celebrity. Comedian Sarah Mills is with us to try understand one of the weirdest 90s phenomena, Ben brings u...

BUY TICKETS TO OUR UPCOMING LIVE SHOW HERE:  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/goodshipcomedy/572834  - Worst Foot Forward Literary Salon, 7.30pm on 10th October 2021 at Backyard Comedy Club with special guests Bec Hill, Jay Foreman and Ria Lina! With celebrity dance competition Strictly Come Dancing back on British TV, Barry sits Ben down to look a bit more closely at the dances featured on the...

BUY TICKETS TO OUR UPCOMING LIVE SHOW HERE:  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/goodshipcomedy/572834  - Worst Foot Forward Literary Salon, 10th October 2021 at Backyard Comedy Club with special guests Bec Hill, Jay Foreman and Ria Lina! This week Ben and Barry are joined by remarkable cabaret legend Mat Ricardo to head out West to find the most useless cowboys in the wild frontier. As well as va...

BUY TICKETS TO OUR UPCOMING LIVE SHOW HERE: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/goodshipcomedy/572834  - Worst Foot Forward Literary Salon, 10th October 2021 at Backyard Comedy Club with special guests Bec Hill, Jay Foreman and Ria Lina! We are under the sea this week with folklorist, historian and cryptid-enthusiast Sacha Coward as we try and get an Arial view of the World's Worst Mermaid. Sacha...

It's a contest about a contest today as we bring podcaster and Eurovision Song Contest fanatic Kris Ball to help us sort out the World's Worst Eurovision Act. In what may be a baffling experience for anyone not from this continent, we discuss miming playing instruments, Portugal's up-and-down history with the event and the wit and wisdom of Sir Terry Wogan. We also make Worst Foot Forward history...

We're splicing ourselves into a model of a burning building this week as we bring shonky jeopardy into your ears. Joining us to celebrate the worst that Hollywood can deliver is actor, painter and writer Daniel Quirke. We reveal quite how method James Cagney was forced to go, the dreaded 'butthole' cut of Cats and the horror of Jeremy Renner's CGI arms. Follow us on Twitter:  @worstfoot   @bazmcst...

We've got ants in our pants, bees in our knees and bugs in our earlugs this week as entomologist - and definitely not etymologist - Gary Hartley talks to us about the World's Worst Insect. Or rather, Gary stubbornly spends much of the show defending some of humankind's tiniest and most annoying nemeses from their traditional criticisms. Meanwhile, Ben has tales of Nazi insects and Barry discovers...

Join us for some A-grade navel-gazing as we look back at the conception of our own podcast 5 years ago. We sprinkle in some bits of trivia along the way as we reminisce about Ben walking the London Underground, visits to nuclear bunkers and reveal some behind-the-scenes details including the discarded alternative names for the show! Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde   Joi...

Pop on your pads, adjust your box and settle in for an attritional afternoon at the crease as Ben and Barry are joined by Kiwi-Indian comedian Runi Talwar to debate about the world's worst cricketer. The show contains extravagant cheats, conmen, Charles Dickens laughing at legless sailors and a man being set on fire by a cricket ball.  Follow us on Twitter:  @worstfoot   @bazmcstay   @benvandervel...