Event

Ian Edwards Comedy Show: Thursday September 8th HILO TOWN TAVERN

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 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.

Ian performed stand-up on the Comedy Death Ray Album in 2006, appeared twice on HBOs Def Comedy Jam. He performed on P. Diddy Presents the Bad Boys of Comedy in 2007 and Showtimes Live Nude Comedy in 2009.

Ian was a writer on ABCs Black-ish, an uncredited writer on CBSs Two Broke Girls and NBCs 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.

In 2014, Ian 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 and is one of Joe Rogan's touring openers.

Edwards was 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, Ian starred in Raise The ToyGantic, a mockumentary comedy about the Toy Gantic, 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 and Exlaim!.

Doors open at 7pm

Show will Start at 8pm