James is a writer, filmmaker, actor, improviser, and Jeopardy! champion from New York City. He graduated from Columbia University in 2015, has studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and received an MFA in TV Writing from Columbia's Film Program in Fall 2020. His other passions include Robert Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson and vexillology, the study of flags. He also has an educational Twitch stream where he reads Wikipedia, WikiwithJames.