James Bobin

JAMES BOBIN is a British director and producer and one of the most inventive comedic writers in television. He created, wrote and executive-produced the hit series Flight of the Conchords for HBO and played a key role in making it one of Time magazine‘s top five new television series in 2007. The show garnered seven Emmy® nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series. For his work on Flight of the Conchords, Bobin received back-to-back nominations for Outstanding Directing and Writing as well as a Writers Guild Award nomination.

In 2000, Bobin created, wrote and directed Da Ali G Show for Channel 4 in England and devised the show‘s iconic characterizations Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev and Bruno (all played by Sacha Baron Cohen). He was the driving force in bringing the critically acclaimed series to the United States and was nominated twice by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for both Outstanding Directing and Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program.

Born in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Bobin graduated from Oxford University and went on to work at the BBC series Fantasy Football League, where he directed two seasons of the hit program. He then went on to produce and direct two seasons of The 11 O‘Clock Show for Channel 4 in England, which is where he met Cohen and was nominated for a BAFTA Television Award. In 2000, he wrote and directed Thumb Candy, the first-ever documentary for Channel 4 in England about the history of video games.

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