Ian Edwards Biography

Ian was born in England raised in Jamaica and moved to New York with his family when he was 17. Ian launched his career through stand-up comedy. His first writing job was on The Keenan 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.
Ian performed stand-up on the Comedy Death Ray Album in 2006 appeared twice on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. He performed on P. Diddy Presents the Bad Boys of Comedy in 2007 and Showtime’s Live Nude Comedy in 2009.
Ian was a writer on ABC’s Black-ish an uncredited writer on CBS’s Two Broke Girls and NBC’s The Carmichael Show. Additionally Ian was a writer and Supervising Producer on season 2 of the Adult Swim animated series Black Dynamite. Ian also wrote jokes featured in The New York Post and Time Out Los Angeles in 2014.

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