Worst Foot Forward

Worst Foot Forward

By Hosted by Ben Van der Velde and Barry McStayComedyHistory
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Worst Foot Forward episodes

  • The Third Foot: SV Tasmania Berlin (Bonus Episode)

    Listeners with an interest in football may well have heard the brilliant story of SV Tasmania Berlin as their unique record in German football was under threat last month. For non-football fans / regular Worst Foot Forward nerds, stay with us: they're the worst football team in the German Premier League's history, they know it and they LOVE it. If that's not what this podcast is about, we don't know what is! And so, in this special bonus episode, we are joined by Tasmania's fan coordinator HCL and their Englishman-turned-local fan Jamie to hear about how they came to rack up 31 consecutive games without a win, how their record was saved at the last second and how they love to be such losers.

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @SV_Tasmania_Bln

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com 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 write our new book! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    32 min
  • Ep 200: Birthday Special! with Johnny Chiodini & Paul Duncan McGarrity

    For we're the jolly worst fellow, and so say all of you! Blimey, 200 episodes of this nonsense, who'd have thought it? And to celebrate this milestone we have brought back two stellar former guests in the shape of Paul Duncan McGarrity and Johnny Chiodini. Not only that, but - rather like the last day of term - we've brought in games to play! Johnny takes on the role of Games Master to guide Ben, Barry and Paul through his role-playing game Glaze of Blory, all about being inept knights and trying to kill each other as often as possible. It's a suitably silly way to see in our 200th episode, celebrating our truly heroic failures as we try to induce toad-licking, lead-poisoning and griffin-mauling. Thanks to all of you for listening, and here's to the next 200.

    To buy Glaze of Blory, visit: https://johnnychiodini.itch.io/glaze-of-blory

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @Johnneh @PaulDuncanMcG

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com 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 write our first book: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    1 hr 44 min
  • Ep 199: Hannah George - World's Worst Competition

    In this week's episode Ben and Barry are joined by 1/3 of the Drunk Women Solving Crime podcast - writer, comedian and first-class soused sleuth Hannah George. Together the three of them prepare for friendly, not-so friendly and completely unhinged competition.

    We find out why Sumo wrestlers like yelling at babies, discover astounding new depths of misogyny from the 1950s and reality TV and get hot under the bathrobe in Finland.

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @HannahMGeorge

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com 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, especially as we work on our book: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep 198: Sukh Ojla - World's Worst Sausage

    This week's show is an absolute banger. Joined by comedian and actor Sukh Ojla we head to darkest corners of the Worst Foot Forward abattoir to uncover the ludicrous history of terrible sausages. On our way we meet Kaiser Wilhelm's vicious dachshunds, the wurst Botox outbreak and how sausages have inspired bets, duels and wars.

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @sukhojla

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com 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, especially as we work on our book: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    1 hr 10 min
  • Ep 197: Mark Cooper-Jones - World's Worst Country

    We realise many of our listeners might want to volunteer their own countries for this week's accolade of World's Worst Country, but in the capable company of one half of the Map Men, Mark Cooper-Jones, we think we might be able to outdo you. We bring you to micronations ruled by animals, the very affordable pricing of Liechtenstein and the nation that encompasses all of outer space itself.

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @markcooperjones

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com 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, especially as we work on our book: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    1 hr 6 min
  • The Third Foot: Inaugurations (Bonus Episode)

    It our first bonus episode of 2021 - bye 2020, out with the old, in with the new. This new year brings a new US president, and to mark the occasion, Barry takes us on a walk down memory lane to past US presidential inaugurations. We hear tales of dead pigeons, frozen champagne, faltering poets and absent wives.

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support us as we write our first book and work on bringing even bigger guests to the show: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    31 min
  • Ep 196: Mo Omar - World's Worst Artist

    This week we open the doors to the Worst Foot Gallery to uncover the world's worst artist. The collection is full of bodily fluids, fascists, murderers, self-proclaimed unjustified geniuses and one man who took performance art far to far indeed. We're joined by Mo Omar: a man who is stand-up comedy's gain to art school's loss. Enjoy this show whilst scratching your chin and considering the question: is this episode art?

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @mokultra

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show in 2021, as we work on our first ever book! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    1 hr 17 min
  • Worst Lung Forward - Pirates (Redux)

    Yaaaaar me hearties. We come to you peg-legged, one-eyed, half-lunged and rotten-toothed for a special dig into our vaults. For the first time in Worst Foot Forward history both Ben and Barry are suffering under the weather (a brutal so'esterly) and so we're giving you the opportunity to listen again to one of our favourite ever episodes, all about the world's worst pirates. We'll be back next week, ship-shape and ready to sail with more daft tales of humanity's terrible mistakes.

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show in 2021, as we work on our first ever book! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 195: Kat Arney - World's Worst Nobel Laureate

    This episode feels like it has been a long time coming, frankly. Nobel Laureates include some of the best of us - and, as we discover today, some of the worst of us too. Science storyteller Kat Arney joins us to help guide us through a ceremony full of failure, with misogynistic self-publicists, war-mongering peace prize winners and the worst category of all: Economics.

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @Kat_Arney

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show in 2021, as we work on our first ever book! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    1 hr 1 min
  • Ep 194: Simon O'Rourke - World's Worst Tree

    A very merry new year to you all! After the stress of 2020, we thought it was best to get back to nature for our first episode of 2021. Joined by award-winning tree sculptor Simon O'Rourke we strolled through the blood-stained woodland glades of myth, history and surgery to find the world's worst tree.

    Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @treecarving

    Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com 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 ever book! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

    Watch Ben's new special, 'Fablemaker' on Next Up Comedy by following this link HERE. Don't forget to enter the code FABLEMAKER for 30% off

    Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

    1 hr 7 min

About Worst Foot Forward

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An encyclopaedia of heroic failure