James Tison

Comedy
New York City, NY (Moving to LA in May 2023)

  • Headlined a sold-out show and filmed their hour at their home club Stand Up NY

  • Debuted their hour at the We’re Funny That Way festival in Toronto

  • Two of their comedy pilots dominated screenplay festivals, garnering over 20 Semi-finalist and Finalist placements (including Toronto WildSound Festival, LA Int’l Screenplay Awards, Nashville Film Festival, BlueCat, and the Cinestory Foundation TV Fellowship)

  • Featured in Out Magazine’s piece “11 Trans Comedians We Love…”

  • Appeared on NBC’s New Amsterdam

  • Featured in NY Times in a piece on NYC’s top nonbinary comedians

“Hilarious and adorable... a gender non-conforming comic who is sick and tired of transphobia.”
— Broadway World
“They have some absolutely killer jokes about gender that would make Dave Chappelle piss his pants.”
— Out Magazine


James Tison is a working class, queer/nonbinary comedian based in NYC. They’ve been featured in Time Out NY, the NY Times, Out Magazine, and Broadway World. They've appeared off-Broadway and on network television, and Broadway World called them "Blisteringly Funny.” In 2022 they took their hour on the road to clubs along the east coast and the We’re Funny That Way festival in Toronto. They can be seen all over New York's comedy scene, which has recently included QED, Stand Up NY, Broadway Comedy Club, Green Room 42 and pretty much every Brooklyn gay bar with a stage and a microphone.