James Lamont (writer)

James Lamont (born 15 June 1982) is a London-based comedy film and television writer and one half of the writing partnership James Lamont and Jon Foster.

Won the 2013 "Writer" British Academy Children's Award for The Amazing World of Gumball.

Won the 2012 "Writer" British Academy Children's Award for The Amazing World of Gumball.

Won the 2011 "Writer" British Academy Children's Award for The Amazing World of Gumball.

Wrote on the series 'Armstrong and Miller,' which won the Best Comedy BAFTA in 2010.

James Lamont co-wrote "The Harry Hill Movie" with Harry Hill and Jon Foster in 2013. Wrote drafts of the Paddington Bear movie. And is currently developing a new family film script with Studio Canal and Heyday Films called "Titus Rules".

His writing credits include Cuckoo 2 for BBC 3, the award-winning The Amazing World of Gumball for Cartoon Network (season 1 & 2), 10 O'clock Live season 2, The BAFTA-winning The Armstrong and Miller Show (season 2 & 3) for BBC1 made by Hattrick, School of Comedy season 2, for E4 28 Acts in 28 Minutes for BBC3, and several commissioned pilots. At time of writing (2013) he has scripts optioned by Rough Cut for Comedy Central, Big Talk for BBC3, Angel eye for Channel 4, and Objective for Channel 4. In 2016 he co-wrote Wasted for E4.

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