Ian Edwards

Skuespiller, Forfatter, Producer

11. februar 1972 (54 år)
Ian Edwards is a British Jamaican / American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer from New York and based in Los Angeles, California.

Edwards launched his career through stand-up comedy. His first writing job was on The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show in 1998. In 2000, Edwards wrote on MTV's The Lyricist Lounge Show. He wrote on ABC's The Big House starring Kevin Hart, and in 2005, Edwards was a regular cast member on season 6 of MTV's Punk’d, and a story editor on Cartoon Network's The Boondocks. He was a writer on Comedy Central's Chocolate News, a Consulting Producer on Dogg After Dark starring Snoop Dogg and wrote on FOX's In the Flow with Affion Crockett. Edwards performed stand-up on the Comedy Death-Ray album in 2006, appeared twice on HBO's Def Comedy Jam. He performed on P. Diddy's The Bad Boys of Comedy in 2007 and Showtime's Live Nude Comedy in 2009.

Edwards was a writer on ABC's Black-ish, an uncredited writer on CBS's 2 Broke Girls and NBC's 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 O’Brien's Team Coco Records as the first comic signed to Conan O’Brien's 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 ocean-liner 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!.

Film og serier på Plex

  • Dealin' with Idiots
    Dealin' with Idiots2013
  • Six Bend Trap
    Six Bend Trap2007
  • Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-Up
    Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-Up5 sæsoner
  • Sugar and Toys
    Sugar and Toys1 sæson

Kendt for

  • Tangerine
    Tangerine2015
  • Friends from College
    Friends from College2 sæsoner
  • Crashing (2017)
    Crashing (2017)3 sæsoner
  • Survival of the Thickest
    Survival of the Thickest3 sæsoner
  • black-ish
    black-ish8 sæsoner
  • Undercover Brother 2
    Undercover Brother 22019
  • Man of the Century
    Man of the Century1999
  • Chocolate News
    Chocolate News1 sæson
  • Natural Born Komics
    Natural Born Komics2007

Filmografi

2025
We're Not Married? · as Fbi Agent Edwards
2025
2017
2017
2015
Tangerine · as Nash
2013
Dealin' with Idiots · as FreddyPå Plex
2013
Another Period · as Black Confessor
2007
Six Bend Trap · as Mark 'rusty' KnuttsPå Plex
2002
1999
Man of the Century · as Clarence
1991
The Real McCoy · as Cast

2024
Black Comedy in America · as SelfPå Plex
2022
2022
2022
2021
2021
2020
The Comedy Store · as Self
2020
2020
2019
Lights Out with David Spade · as Self - Panelist
2019
2019
2019
The New Negroes · as Self - Comedian
2019
The DL Hughley Show · as Self - Guest
2017
2015
TigerBelly · as Self - Guest
2013
@midnight · as Self
2013
Comedy Up Late · as Self
2012
2012
2010
Conan (2010) · as Self - Comic Guest
2009
Live Nude Comedy · as Self - Performer
2007
2006
Comics Unleashed with Bryon Allen · as Self - Comedian
2005
2005
2005
2004
2002
1995
1993
1992
Def Comedy Jam · as Self - ComedianPå Plex
1979
Laugh Factory · as Self - Comedian

2024
Good Times (2024) · as Consulting Producer
2019
2017
Friends from College · as Co-Producer
2015
The Carmichael Show · as Consulting Producer
2012
Russell Simmons Presents The Ruckus · as Consulting Producer
2010

2023
Survival of the Thickest · as Co-Executive Producer
2018
The Last O.G. · as Supervising Producer
2018
The Last O.G. · as Written By
2017
Crashing (2017) · as Executive Story Editor
2015
The Carmichael Show · as Consulting Producer
2011
Black Dynamite · as Supervising Producer
2011
Black Dynamite · as Written By
2000
The Lyricist Lounge Show · as Segment Producer