Described by media critic David Fewster as being “the spawn of an unnatural union between Henry Rollins and Don Rickles.” James Inman is the 1997 winner of the San Francisco International Comedy Competition. He’s performed at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, Comedy Central Laugh Riots and is a three time headliner of the Seattle Lenny Bruce Festival. He was co-creator of the Mudslingers Ball Comedy Central pilot which later became Crossballs:The Debate Show and Root of All Evil with Lewis Black. He’s produced his own one man show called the Greyhound Diary. You can also see James in the just released film The Unbookables.
FILM
Heckler
The Unbookables
FESTIVALS
Montreal Just For Laughs
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Bumbershoot
Amsterdam International Comedy Festival
AWARDS
San Francisco Comedy Competition Winner
TELEVISION
Pig Roast with Otto and George
G4 Attack of the Show
Deface the Nation
The Brody Steven’s Show
After Hours
Mudslingers Ball
BOOKS
The Greyhound Diary
Videos
Promo
New CD
Rarities, Bootlegs and B-Sides is a collection of rants, tirades and snap episodes that are too weird to put on a normal CD. These clips were taken from different live shows I recorded over the years. Some of this is audio I ripped from videos. Some of it is from older CDs. One clip is an answering machine message I found somewhere. High and low quality recordings are mixed in no particular order. Play it all at once or search through it to find your favorite rant. There’s over 18 tracks that have never been released. You can listen to it free or buy one if you want. Enjoy.
Contact
MANAGEMENT
Roger Paul Roger Paul Inc. rogerpaul@rogerpaulinc.com
212-262-0008
CONTACT JAMES
james@jamesinman.com
816-326-8574
COMMUNITY LINKS
Greyhound Diary
“Having laughed myself silly for the last two nights. At a mere 79 pages, Inman’s travel diary reads like a polished novella of the caliber of Paul Bowles. James touches on a subject that many people have dealt with but few people have written about – without sounding like an ad brochure or meaningless moan from Lake Wobegon. This is a great literary tour through an unlisted United States.” – Steffan Piper
The Unbookables Movie is a project I got involved in with Doug Stanhope and Jeff Pearson. Doug coined the phrase Unbookable to define a group of comics that couldn’t get booked anywhere because they were too weird for the average audience. The idea was to follow us around with a seven man film crew on a three week tour of Texas, Kansas City and Illinois. The film is finished with production and is looking for a distributor. It stars me as myself, Andy Andrist, Sean Rouse, Brendon Walsh, Norm Wilkerson, Travis Lipski, Brett Erickson and Kristine Levine. We had cameras and boom mics in our face the whole time, morning, noon and night, before, during and after the shows. Jeff Pearson’s first documentary Pirate Radio went to 7 film festivals and won Most Original Documentary at the Wine Country Film Festival and Best Feature-Judges Award at the Zion Independent Film Festival.
“The Unbookables is a narrative documentary about stand-up comics who have spent their whole careers pushing limits–on stage and off. Relegated to small venues and touring in a crappy van through the Midwest they careen between the desire to succeed and the reality that there may be nothing left to lose. Road life is far from glamorous: comics come and go and cruel pranks and hard drinking punctuate their obsidian dark comedy on stage. They succeed and fail spectacularly. When they face being fired for going too far on stage, the conflict culminates in a showdown: compromise or double down? Written by Jeff Pearson.”
