Ian Edwards

Ian Edwards is a British Jamaican / American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer from New York and based in Los Angeles, California. He launched his career through stand-up comedy, and his first writing job was on The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show in 1998. In 2000 he wrote on MTV's The Lyricist Lounge Show, and he wrote on ABC's The Big House starring Kevin Hart. In 2005 he was a regular cast member on season 6 of MTV's Punk'd and a story editor on Cartoon Network's The Boondocks.

Edwards was a writer on Comedy Central's Chocolate News and ABC's Black-ish, an uncredited writer on CBS's 2 Broke Girls and NBC's The Carmichael Show, and a writer and supervising producer on season 2 of the Adult Swim animated series Black Dynamite. He performed stand-up on the Comedy Death-Ray album in 2006 and appeared twice on HBO's Def Comedy Jam. In 2014 he released his debut comedy album, 100% Half Assed, on Conan O'Brien's Team Coco Records as the first comic signed to the label, and he has appeared multiple times on Conan and @Midnight.

As an actor, Edwards was a cast member in the Jeff Garlin feature Dealin' with Idiots opposite JB Smoove in 2013. In 2014 he acted in the film Tangerine, which was a massive success at Sundance 2015, signed a distribution deal with Magnolia Pictures, and was released in theaters in 2015. He is a regular guest on the Joe Rogan Experience, The Adam Carolla Show and the Deathsquad Podcast Network, and has appeared on Marc Maron's WTF and NPR's Bullseye with Jesse Thorn. Edwards hosts the podcast Soccer Comic Rant on AllThingsComedy.com and co-hosts The Preposterous Sessions with Zara Mizrahi. He is a supporter of Manchester United F.C.