James is an actor, content creator and comedian from Texas, now living in Los Angeles. Formerly based in NYC, he performed improv and sketch comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade, The PIT and the Magnet Theater for 10 years. He performed on UCB's Maude Night with the sketch team Night Eaters and with sketch duo Coker & Stratton.

James has recently gained a following as a Formula One content creator, having amassed 45K followers on TikTok and 48K followers on Instagram. His videos have been featured on accounts for ESPN F1, ESPNW, Sports Illustrated F1, and Motorsport.com. James currently makes a weekly video for Sports Illustrated’s Formula One page.

He has appeared on Mythic Quest, American Horror Stories, Reasonable Doubt, 13 Reasons Why, 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and in videos for Funny Or Die, Mashable, Above Average, The Kicker and MTV. You can also hear him in various roles in the Audible original series 64th Man with John Cena. James' writing credits include the New York Television Festival pilots Classless (2013) and The Other Kennedys (2015), as well as the web series Trump Bros (2016-2017), Tailgating With (2017, with Broadway Video) and Crypto Boyz (2019, with UCB Comedy and Nerdist). From 2018-2021, he was a spokesperson in a national campaign for Spectrum and Spectrum Mobile. You can hear him in an upcoming episode of The Truth Podcast, and see him in the upcoming Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck film Freaky Tales. Additionally, James has made branded content for brands such as Sbarro and Drumstick and currently works as a brand social video content creator for SoFi.