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.