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Ep 269: Carrie Quinlan – World’s Worst Obituary Monday, February 20th, 2023
Bring out your dead - and mock them mercilessly It's alright, they don't get right of reply On this week's episode we are joined by actor, writer and comedian Carrie Quinlan to discuss the witty, catty and tricky topic of the World's Worst Obituary We have vengeful hit-pieces, touching tributes and euphemistic eulogies Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: History & Politics, Podcast
LIVE SHOW ADVERT! Monday, February 13th, 2023
Click here to buy tickets to our show at VAULT Festival, Waterloo in London on 19th February 2023: https://vaultfestivalcom/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ This is your final countdown folks, the next Worst Foot Forward live recording is coming up on Sunday 19th February 2023 at 840pm at the VAULT Festival in London Our World's Worst Games Night will feature guests Johnny Chiodini and Ellie Gibson, there'll be facts, fun, games, an audience prize and much more besides We want to pack the place out so come along, bring a friend and stick around afterwards for a nice drink in the bar! Pop in to our friends at the board game café Draughts in Waterloo on the day of the recording, mention you're seeing the show later and they'll look after you! https://wwwdraughtslondoncom/locations/waterloo/ Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show, and especially as we work on our first book and plan more live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Podcast
Ep 268: Sam See – World’s Worst Ice Cream Monday, February 6th, 2023
TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 19th FEBRUARY 2023 @ 840pm: https://vaultfestivalcom/events/worst-foot-forward-live-recording/ It's straight to dessert this week as we're joined by Singapore's finest comedian Sam See to delve into the sundae, the 99 flake and the whippy and find the worst among them On our way we encounter samurai, jellyfish proteins, Father's for Justice and some terrifying Glaswegian gangsters TICKETS FOR BEN'S SHOW FABLEMAKER AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 21st/22nd FEBRUARY 2023 @ 9:10pm: https://vaultfestivalcom/events/ben-van-der-velde-fablemaker/ TICKETS TO SEE SAM SEE AT GOOD SHIP COMEDY ON THURSDAY 9TH JULY 2023 @ 8PM: https://good-ship-comedy-clubdesignmynightcom/636e722cb54b2967e34d8af0/good-ship-comedy-thursday-february-9th-2023 Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @mrsamsee Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live...
Filed Under: Food & Drink, Podcast
The Third Foot: James VI’s Demonologie Monday, January 30th, 2023
TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 19th FEBRUARY 2023 @ 840pm: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 of the temptation of evil We take a deep dive into it, with pit stops for unicorn snooker and depressed werewolves TICKETS FOR BEN'S SHOW FABLEMAKER AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVA, 21st/22nd FEBRUARY 2023 @ 9:10pm: https://vaultfestivalcom/events/ben-van-der-velde-fablemaker/ Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live...
Filed Under: History & Politics, Podcast, Third Foot
Ep 267: Dr Kit Chapman – World’s Worst Doll Monday, January 23rd, 2023
TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 19th FEBRUARY 2023 @ 840pm: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 Alma Mahler, the failures of Thomas Edison and, of course, far too many sex dolls Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @ChemistryKit Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Hobbies & Games, Podcast
Ep 266: Daman Bamrah – World’s Worst Thriller Monday, January 9th, 2023
TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 19th FEBRUARY 2023 @ 840pm: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 spills, with stories of Italian sound studios, shooting down the lens and oh-so many sharks Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @dsbamrah Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, TV & Film
Ep 265: World’s Worst Best Of 2022 Episode Monday, December 26th, 2022
TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW AT LONDON'S VAULT FESTIVAL, 19th FEBRUARY 2023 @ 840pm: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 this episode: Louie Stowell, James Cook, Leah Broad, Carly Smallman, Tim Clare, David Cumming, Grubby Little Mitts (aka Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Beau Brown), Otto English, Hana Ayoob, Mark Thomas, Robyn Perkins (and Patreon donor Jack O’Reilly) And thanks as ever to you, dear listeners, for giving meaning to our existence and support for our silly show See you in 2023! Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @Louiestowell @jamesecook @LeahBroad @carlysmallman @TimClarePoet @DaveyCumming @GrubbyComedy @Otto_English @Hana_SciArt @markthomasinfo @robynHperkins Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show and especially as we work on our first book and plan more live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Miscellaneous, Podcast
Ep 264: Grubby Little Mitts – World’s Worst Christmas Tradition Monday, December 19th, 2022
COME SEE OUR LIVE SHOW AT VAULT FESTIVAL NEXT YEAR! SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19TH, 8:40PM IN WATERLOO: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 penyatas to exponential bell-ringing until the end of time, we've covered every single slice of festive horror Raise a glass of lukewarm eggnog, slip on your most tasteless Crimbletide jumper and hop on in Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @GrubbyComedy Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live...
Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Podcast
Ep 263: Jane Hill – World’s Worst Lighthouse Monday, December 5th, 2022
https://wwwyoutubecom/watchv=GSOBLhYfaYs - join us on Monday 12th December at 830pm 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 shows this week as comedian, lecturer and journalist Jane Hill leads us blinkingly around the World's Worst Lighthouse There are towers built in the wrong place, lonely lookouts, and lighthouses whose afterlife concerned the afterlife Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @janehill64 Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Podcast
The Third Foot: Alternatives to the World Cup Monday, November 28th, 2022
COME SEE OUR LIVE SHOW AT VAULT FESTIVAL NEXT YEAR! SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19TH, 8:40PM IN WATERLOO: https://vaultfestivalcom/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 find out the link between international football and ice tea, why you should never bet against Durham miners and how the organisers of the World's Fair trolled the early Olympic Games Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
Filed Under: Podcast, Sport, Third Foot
Ep 262b: Best of the Worst of the Best 19 Monday, November 21st, 2022
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 being the good guys Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Best of the Worst of the Best, Podcast
Ep 262: Carly Smallman – World’s Worst Fortune Teller Monday, November 7th, 2022
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 Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Miscellaneous, Podcast
The Third Foot: October 31st Monday, October 31st, 2022
Watch our Hallowe'en Movie Watchalong of "Plan 9 From Outer Space": https://youtube/2_FilcFKgEYt=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: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Third Foot
Ep 261: Tim Clare – World’s Worst Novelist Monday, October 24th, 2022
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, with a smattering of world-class French pretension, there are no ends to huge ambition and lack of talent on display Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @TimClarePoet Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Get stuck into Tim's outstanding writing course: http://wwwtimclarepoetcouk/couchto80kwritingbootcamp/ Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
Filed Under: Art & Literature, Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast
Plan 9 From Outer Space Watchalong – TRAILER Thursday, October 20th, 2022
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 830pm BST on the Worst Foot Forward YouTube Channel, where you can watch and chat along with us To find us on YouTube, it might be quicker to go to tinyurlcom/worstfootforward, and you can set a reminder Otherwise, simply click on the stream video itself which can be found right here! https://wwwyoutubecom/watchv=2_FilcFKgEY Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server!...
Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast