Map Men

Map Men is a edutainment mini-series currently in its fourth season, which is created, written, and presented by Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones. A mix of comedy and geography, its videos regularly attract 1-5 million views on YouTube.

Premise
The series is created, written, and presented by Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones. The pair have become to be known as the Map Men themselves. Mark Cooper-Jones is a former geography teacher, and the pair met at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where both were performing that year.

The series started in 2016, and is currently in its fourth season. The episodes are a mix of comedy and geography, with each episode answering a short geographical question, often involving maps. The style has been compared to Horrible Histories and the pair cite their inspiration as Monty Python. The videos feature deadpan, split-second visual gags, and comic sketches.

The pair have claimed the show's success to be due to the growing redundancy of maps as an everyday item, leaving them to be "geeky". They also cite the mix of comedy and geography as the unique element behind the series, leading to its success compared to other more education-based alternatives. In 2021, the series was nominated under the "learning and education" category for the 11th Streamy Awards, losing to Veritasium.