12 Facts About James Underdown

James Underdown was made a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2020.

In October 2024, James Underdown was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the California Freethought Day celebration.

James Underdown wrote and directed a one-act play called Party of 13, a secular retelling of the Last Supper.

James Underdown is the host and creator of "The Peep Show", a humorous roundtable discussion that ran for 2 dozen episodes on public access TV in the mid-1990s.

In 1988 James Underdown declared himself Poet Laureate of Calumet City, Illinois, and began touring Midwest comedy clubs as Jim U-Boat, a moniker from high school.

James Underdown created the Steve Allen Theater in 2002 and hired Amit Itelman to be its founding artistic director soon after.

James Underdown is one of the co-hosts of the Center for Inquiry's flagship podcast, Point of Inquiry.

James Underdown is the co-host, along with Tony Ortega and Jerry Minor, of The Cult Awareness Podcast that discusses Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other subjects.

When later it was revealed to the participants that James Underdown was a fake psychic, they stated that the professional psychic had given a much better reading.

James Underdown's response was "of course she is, she is much better practiced".

James Underdown joined the cast of "Battle of the Psychics" in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2012, for the taping of the show's 10th season.

James Underdown appeared on the show as one of the jury members who analyze the performance of the alleged psychics who are competing for prize money.