James Stewart
- 39 years old
- Scottish
- Actor, comedian, director, writer, editor and podcaster
James is a television and comedy fanatic who writes what he wants to see. An award winning film-maker, writer, actor and optimist, he is technically canon in Doctor Who and a prior Quasimodo.
| Year | Production | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Televigion Podcast | James |
| 2014 | Here All Week | Greg |
| 2014 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo (et al) |
| 2014 | Love and Friendship | Henry Crawford (et al) |
| 2012 | Jedward's Big Adventure | Stephen Boyd |
| 2011 | The Elephant Man | Bishop How |
| 2011 | Who is Jean? Go the Distance | James |
| 2011 | 500 Ordered Days of Summer | Tom |
| 2010 | Who is Jean? Presents Behind The Truth: More Lies | James |
- Born
- Wednesday 27th March 1985 (39 years-old)
- Nationality
- Scottish
- Home town
- Edinburgh
- Resident of
- Scotland (Edinburgh)
James was born in Edinburgh to parents who were almost certainly aware their son had a famous namesake, but who couldn't have predicted the difficulty he would later face in trying to Google himself.
James has always consumed a breathtaking amount of television, which can now fortunately be viewed as research. His earliest memory is laughing at The Golden Girls, probably attuning himself to the rhythm of comedy rather than relating directly to sassy elderly women in Florida.
James still watches as much TV as he can. But now he writes what he wants to see but can't find. There is a current trend in comedy for a focus on realism, and shows that want to show us real people, but James loves being contrarian and prefers characters in heightened and more fantastical situations. They are just as relatable and revealing, and can sneak the profundity in more easily. The world has never seemed more frighteningly real than it does just now, so maybe what we all need is a bit of an escape.
His first Edinburgh Fringe sketch show was in 2009 in a basement full of comedy memories and a damp smell. Following that he founded a new group with fewer clashing egos (just the right amount, three). This group blossomed through two highly successful Fringe runs and then fortnightly shows to award-winning short film parodies. These led to brief viral fame via Edgar Wright on Twitter and a trip to California, to then inevitably breaking up and briefly moving to Australia/forming an internationally successful indie band/becoming a film critic for The Independent. James only did the first of those.
Most of James's current output is found on Substack as "Two Television Things". It is one half Fancy Falls; comedy writing informed by magic, TV tropes and monsters. The other half is Televigion, personal reflections on how TV shapes us. It's really all One Thing, a love of television.
