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!.
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Biography from TMDB.
- February 11, 1972 (54)
- Hammersmith, London, UK
- Actor, writer and producer
- 15 on MovieCove · 22 credits in all
What are Ian Edwards' films like?
Across their 10 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
A split, not a type: Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 2
Light 3 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 1
A split, not a type: Gentle 2 · Charged 1 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 2
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 4
A split, not a type: Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 1
Casual 3 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 4 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 0
Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy5
- Bittersweet4
- Cyclical1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Ian Edwards' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 15 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Ian Edwards' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
22 credits, 15 with a MovieCove page; 8 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
The Roast of Kevin Hart(2026)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
We're Not Married? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Good Times(2024)
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all shows
Survival of the Thickest(2023)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all shows
The Roast of Whitney Cummings (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Undercover Brother 2(2019)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Suicide Roadtrip (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Friends from College(2017)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows
SXSW Comedy with Natasha Leggero - Part Two (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Tangerine(2015)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Another Period(2013)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
The Carmichael Show(2015)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Black Dynamite(2011)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)Six Bend Trap (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Pauly Shore's Natural Born Komics: Miami (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
The Bad Boys of Comedy(2005)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Man of the Century(1999)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
Yardbird (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 45th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 15 titles, 14 of them dated from 1999 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Tangerine (2015)
Highest rated
Tangerine (2015)
Most popular right now
Good Times (2024)
Film career
- 2015Screen debut· Tangerine
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Ian Edwards' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 58th percentile, the median of all 6; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 66th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th5
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 15 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Divisive4
- Crowd Pleaser6
- Mixed5
Reviewers score the acting 44/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 63, detractors 23. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Ian Edwards' work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Ian Edwards work with?
People who share at least 2 of Ian Edwards' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Tiffany Haddish shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Stan LathanShared titles: Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012), Russell Simmons Presents: Stand-Up at the El Rey (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Stan Lathan
Writers
- Carl JonesShared titles: Good Times (2024), Black Dynamite (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Carl Jones
- Damn FoolShared titles: Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012), The Bad Boys of Comedy (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Damn Fool
- Tony T. RobertsShared titles: Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012), Russell Simmons Presents: Stand-Up at the El Rey (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Tony T. Roberts
- Derron 'Smokey' EdingtonShared titles: Russell Simmons Presents: Stand-Up at the El Rey (2010), The Bad Boys of Comedy (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Derron 'Smokey' Edington
Actors
- Tiffany HaddishShared titles: The Roast of Kevin Hart (2026), The Carmichael Show (2015), Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012)See all 3 shared titles with Tiffany Haddish
- Lil Rel HoweryShared titles: Good Times (2024), The Carmichael Show (2015), The Bad Boys of Comedy (2005)See all 3 shared titles with Lil Rel Howery
- Jay OakersonShared titles: The Roast of Kevin Hart (2026), The Bad Boys of Comedy (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Jay Oakerson
- Michael Jai WhiteShared titles: Undercover Brother 2 (2019), Black Dynamite (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Michael Jai White
Editors
- Jeff U'renShared titles: Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012), Russell Simmons Presents: Stand-Up at the El Rey (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Jeff U'ren
Producers
- Amber BickhamShared titles: Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012), Russell Simmons Presents: Stand-Up at the El Rey (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Amber Bickham
- Bob SumnerShared titles: Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012), Russell Simmons Presents: Stand-Up at the El Rey (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Bob Sumner
- Russell SimmonsShared titles: Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012), Russell Simmons Presents: Stand-Up at the El Rey (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Russell Simmons
Mixed roles
- Chris SpencerShared titles: The Roast of Kevin Hart (2026), Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Chris Spencer
- Mike BrittShared titles: Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus (2012), The Bad Boys of Comedy (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Mike Britt
- Hugh MooreShared titles: Black Dynamite (2011), Russell Simmons Presents: Stand-Up at the El Rey (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Hugh Moore
