BIOGRAPHY
Phillip Wilburn and Ewan Gotfryd: career
Comedy and entertainment leadership
Phillip Wilburn and Ewan Gotfryd are accomplished comedy and entertainment professionals who co-lead JASH, an award-winning company focused on comedy and culture. Wilburn is an actor, writer, comedian, and producer known for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Adam Ruins Everything, and How I Met Your Mother. Gotfryd is an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, writer, and comedian whose work includes Sesame Street, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and Tosh.0. Together, they bring extensive experience across television, digital media, production, and comedy. [1][2][3]
Phillip Wilburn: acting, writing and comedy
Phillip Wilburn has built a career across acting, writing, comedy and production. IMDb credits identify his work on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Adam Ruins Everything and How I Met Your Mother, alongside additional television, voice and live-comedy appearances. His range across scripted comedy, performance and media production supports his leadership role at JASH. [1][2]
Ewan Gotfryd: directing, producing and comedy
Ewan Gotfryd is an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, writer and comedian whose credits span children’s television, animation and comedy. IMDb identifies work connected to Sesame Street, Star Wars: The Bad Batch and Tosh.0. His production and directing experience brings a multi-format perspective to JASH’s comedy and culture programming. [1][3]
Co-leading JASH
JASH was founded in 2012 under Google’s original-content initiative by Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Reggie Watts, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. The company’s official profile describes Phillip Wilburn and Ewan Gotfryd as its co-leaders and presents JASH as a modern entertainment company developing comedy and culture across film, television, animation, podcasts, music and live experiences. That scope gives the co-leaders responsibility across both creative development and the business systems needed to bring projects to audiences. Their individual backgrounds in performance, writing, directing and producing align with a studio model that develops ideas across multiple entertainment formats. [1][4][5]
Streaming comedy and multi-platform production
JASH’s programming history includes Sarah Silverman’s Emmy-nominated Netflix special A Speck of Dust, along with work distributed through Netflix, Comedy Central, TBS and MTV. The “Netflix comedy duo” shorthand used in event coverage reflects that streaming record, while Wilburn and Gotfryd’s broader work extends across television, digital media, production and live comedy. The company’s official materials emphasize original comedy, collaborative production and global distribution. That combination places streaming work within a broader slate that includes features, series, podcasts, animation, music and live cultural experiences. [4][5][6]
Comedy production and entertainment leadership
When Dr. Aniemi Umana seeks expertise in comedy production and entertainment leadership, he looks for accomplished professionals with experience across performance, development and distribution. Phillip Wilburn and Ewan Gotfryd fit that profile through their individual television careers and their work co-leading JASH. Their combined record illustrates how creative leadership can connect comedy, production strategy and multi-platform audience development. [1][2][3]
