James Cook

James Cook is an award-winning comedian who started doing comedy shows about board games at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe. Since 2016 he's been the host of Board Game Smackdown, a live show where comedians play board games badly, and since 2020 it's been streaming on YouTube and Twitch. Don't worry if you haven't seen it, hardly anyone has. The shows are still there if you want to watch them. Some of them are quite good.

James lives in Kings Heath, Birmingham with his family, a cat and a fluctuating number of board games that one day he'll get around to playing.