Ian Edwards

Ian Edwards is a British Jamaican American standup comedian actor writer and producer from New York and based in Los Angeles California Edwards launched his career through standup comedy His first writing job was on The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show in 1998 In 2000 Edwards wrote on MTVs The Lyricist Lounge Show He wrote on ABCs The Big House starring Kevin Hart and in 2005 Edwards was a regular cast member on season 6 of MTVs Punkd and a story editor on Cartoon Networks The Boondocks He was a writer on Comedy Centrals Chocolate News a Consulting Producer on Dogg After Dark starring Snoop Dogg and wrote on FOXs In the Flow with Affion Crockett Edwards performed standup on the Comedy DeathRay album in 2006 appeared twice on HBOs Def Comedy Jam He performed on P Diddys The Bad Boys of Comedy in 2007 and Showtimes Live Nude Comedy in 2009 Edwards was a writer on ABCs Blackish an uncredited writer on CBSs 2 Broke Girls and NBCs The Carmichael Show Additionally Edwards was a writer and supervising producer on season 2 of the Adult Swim animated series Black Dynamite Edwards also wrote jokes featured in The New York Post and Time Out Los Angeles in 2014 In 2014 Edwards released his debut comedy album 100 Half Assed on Conan OBriens Team Coco Records as the first comic signed to Conan OBriens label He has appeared multiple times on Conan and Midnight Edwards was a cast member in the Jeff Garlin feature Dealin with Idiots opposite JB Smoove in 2013 In 2014 Edwards acted in the film Tangerine which was a massive success at Sundance 2015 The film signed a distribution deal with Magnolia Pictures and released in theaters in 2015 In 2015 Edwards starred in Raise The ToyGantic a mockumentary comedy about the ToyGantic a toy luxury oceanliner built in 1962 Edwards has been interviewed or reviewed in Entertainment Weekly The New York Times Magazine Huffington Post Paste Magazine Marvel Comics Thought Catalogue The Onion AV Club LA Weekly Penthouse Magazine Uptown Magazine Exlaim