Jason Forbes

In September 2014, Forbes reunited with his Cambridge Footlights contemporaries Phil Wang and George Fouracres to form the sketch group 'Daphne'.[18]

The trio began hosting a comedy night called Nova Nova, every other month at the Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, where they trialled their new material alongside guests, including British comedians Harry Hill and James Acaster.[19]

Daphne went on to win the London Sketchfest's prize for 'Best New Act' in 2015.[20] Their first Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Daphne Do Edinburgh, was critically acclaimed[21] and Daphne were nominated for the 2015 Foster's (formerly Perrier) Award for 'Best Newcomer'.[22][23][24]

In February 2016, the BBC announced that Daphne would be bringing a "Goon Show-esque" comedy called Daphne Sounds Expensive to BBC Radio 4,[25] with the first episode airing on 14 July 2016.[26] The series consists of four thirty-minute episodes.[27]

Daphne Sounds Expensive was shortlisted for the 'Best Radio Sketch Show' award at the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016.[28] Radio 4 commissioned a second series which it would broadcast from 13 July 2017.[29][30][31]

Forbes is a regular guest on the satirical sketch show Newsjack on BBC Radio 4 Extra.[32][33][34][35]

In 2017 he appeared in the two-part BBC Radio 4 sitcom Life on Egg by Daniel Maier, alongside Harry Hill, Marek Larwood and Gyles Brandreth.[36][37]

Forbes made his first TV appearance in 2013 in Kerry, a BBC Three 'Comedy Feed' episode by comedic actress Kerry Howard.

He later appeared in The Mimic on Channel 4 and Pompidou by Little Britain star Matt Lucas on BBC One.

In 2014, he appeared on BBC One alongside Harry Hill, David Mitchell, Ben Miller, Miranda Richardson, Simon Day and Charlie Higson, as PC Peasey in Higson's adaptation of The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm by Norman Hunter.[38]

In May 2015, ITV announced that Forbes would among the cast of their new series Horrible Science, based on the Horrible Science books by Nick Arnold.[39]

Forbes also joined the cast of Tracey Ullman's new sketch show, Tracey Ullman's Show, for BBC One[40] and HBO.[41] He will be a regular in the next series of Tracey Ullman's Show, and will portray former American World No. 1 professional tennis player, Arthur Ashe, in the 2017 movie Borg/McEnroe, starring Sverrir Gudnason and Shia LaBeouf.[42][43]

In 2021, broadcaster UKTV announced that Forbes would be joining Kemah Bob and Tom Allen as co-host of a new panel show called The Island on its comedy channel Dave.[44] The show was co-created by comedians John Robins, Lloyd Langford, Ed Gamble, and James Acaster. Recording of the first eight episodes began in June 2021.[45]

He has also joined the cast of Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi, The Three Body Problem.[46]