Comedian • TV Writer • Creator
James Wennlund creates character-driven comedies, live show formats, and stand-up inspired by his own history of questionable decisions.
Los Angeles, California
Nationally touring comedian
Groundlings trained
Original comedy formats
Former airline pilot
Selected work
Scripted comedy and live concepts with a clear engine, strong characters, and enough dysfunction to keep producing episodes.
Half-hour single-camera comedy
Three wildly different Gen Z women enter the workforce at Pink Pony, a chaotic digital marketing company where the influencers are unstable, the bosses are bad, and an AI efficiency agent that may be out to get them.
Live comedy format
Comedians pitch hilariously bad business ideas to a panel of comedian “sharks.” The audience decides who wins cold hard cash and whose ideas should be dissolved immediately.
Live comedy dating show
A live dating-show experiment where freaks, geeks, and Craigslist creeps get a shot at true love in front of a crowd that is completely qualified to judge them.
On stage
“Audiences leave feeling like they made a new friend, just not one they’d trust to care for a loved one.”
Kevin Nealon · Tom Arnold · Darrell Hammond · Orny Adams · Paul Rodriguez
The Comedy Store · The Ice House · Hollywood Improv · Tempe Improv · Stand Up Live
The Rock Comedy Tour
THE SHORT VERSION
Before writing television pilots and performing stand-up, James was a commercial pilot, financial advisor, and middle manager at a Fortune 500 company. In other words, he spent decades studying high-stakes systems and the people uniquely equipped to break them.
Now based in Los Angeles, he writes character-first TV comedies, performs internationally, and creates live shows built around big comic premises. His work is grounded, optimistic, and fascinated by the gap between who people think they are and what they actually do.
Management · Development · Booking