Ian Edwards

As a stand-up Ian released his debut album 100% Half Assed on Conan O’Brien’s record label Team Coco Records. He is the first comedian signed to the label. The press outlets that covered Ian during this campaign include Entertainment Weekly The New York Times Magazine Huffington Post Paste Magazine Marvel Comics Thought Catalogue The Onion AV Club The New York Observer LA Weekly Penthouse Magazine Big Think Exclaim and The Good Men Project. This is along with television appearances on Conan @Midnight Huffington Post Live and radio interviews on NPR’s Bullseye with Jesse Thorn KROQ’s Kevin and Bean Show Sirius XM’s Opie and Anthony WTF with Marc Maron and Joe Rogan’s podcast. Additionally he has had jokes featured in both The New York Post and Time Out LA. He has appeared on Conan 4 times and can be seen on Comedy Central’s New Negroes. He played Skull on several episodes of season 2 of Friends From College was a regular cast member on season 6 of MTV’s hit show Punk’d was a writer on shows such as SNL Cartoon Network’s The Boondocks and MTV’s The Lyricist Lounge and performed as a stand-up on shows such as HBO’s Bad Boys of Comedy  Showtime’s Live Nude Comedy and the Comedy Death Ray Album. Furthermore Ian’s podcast Soccer Comics is housed on the All Things Comedy Network partnered with Laughspin.com.In addition Ian has been invited to perform at some of the more prestigious festivals such as Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival HBO’s Aspen Comedy and Arts Festival Edinburgh Bridgetown San Francisco Sketchfest Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin and Jeff Garlin and Michael Moore’s festival Traverse City Winter Comedy Arts Festival. Ian has also had jokes featured in The New York Post and Time Out Los Angeles last year. Ian’s writing credits include Co-Producer on season 2 of Friends From Collage on Netflix Co-Producer on Crashing HBO Producer for the animated series Sugar and Toys on Fuse Season 1 of ABC’s Black-ish (full time staff writer) season 1 of NBC’s The Carmichael Show (consultant/advisor) along with Ice Cube’s Barbershop 3 (punch-up) and CBS’ Two Broke Girls. Ian also wrote Undercover Brother 2 for Universal. Additionally Ian is coming off 2 features on the acting side. Sean Baker’s Indie Spirit Award nominated film Tangerine (Best Feature category). Prior to the nomination this film had a successful unveiling at Sundance 2015 and was distributed theatrically by Magnolia Pictures (on Netflix now). The other feature is Jeff Garlin’s Dealing with Idiots where Ian was opposite JB Smoove and Natasha Leggero. Doors open at 6:15 Show starts at 7pm 2 Drink Minimum per person21+ with VALID ID if you have a foreign ID you also need your passport