Ian Patrick Harris

Ian Harris

Ian Patrick Harris on the set of his comedy special Critical & Thinking
Born (1971-08-24) August 24, 1971
Medium Stand-up
Nationality American
Spouse Jeaninne

Ian Harris (born August 24, 1971) is a comedian,[1] director and mixed martial arts fighter. He integrates skepticism and critical thinking into his comedy and has a unique fighting style he calls "Fight Science".

Career

Comedy

At age 21 in the year 1992, Ian moved to Los Angeles from Santa Cruz, California, with a friend. There they wrote the script Armaghetto, which they unsuccessfully tried to sell. Shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles he was asked, after an audition, to close the show Annex Sunday Night at the comedy club The Ice House. After that he toured the U.S. performing at comedy shows. He often appeared in the comedy club Punch Line.

In 2000 he moved back to Los Angeles, where he earned a reputation for being brash and irreverent in his comedy. However, in 2006 he stopped doing stand-up comedy and touring, because of his production work and the birth of his daughter in 2005.[2]

In 2011 Harris came back to stand-up comedy, integrating skepticism and critical thinking into his act.[3] He has made fun of Vaccine controversies, glucose intolerance, politics and religions.[4] Six months after his comeback, Harris toured with comedians Jason Relser and Maurice Northup, doing a secular comedy show The Evolution of Comedy Tour.[5]

On December 21, 2012 he recorded his comedy special Ian Harris: Critical & Thinking.[2][6]

Ian is also a regular contributing writer for US Weekly magazine's Fashion Police.[7]

Harris has performed his comedy act at several atheist and skeptical events:

In 2014 he hosted a Sunday Assembly in Los Angeles and in 2013 he performed for Atheists United.[3][11]

Comedy achievements

In the year 2001 he was on the Top 100 Comedians list of the Entertainment Business Journal,[12] and he was a semi-finalist in Comedy Central's Laugh Riots Competition. Backstage West called him Top Character Comedian in Town, and he was a finalist in the San Francisco Comedy Competition.

Comedy awards and events:

Film

After some years of comedy, Ian wrote and directed his first movie It Burns When I Laugh.[13] This film was presented in festivals, where it had a moderate success, then it was distributed on home video. Ian directed some other movies, short movies and music videos, and in 2013, he began to direct comedy specials for other fellow comedians.[9]

Voice-over

In 2003 Ian began performing voice-overs in a commercial for Universal Orlando Resorts that aired on the Super Bowl of the same year. Since then he has performed voice-over for commercials, television shows, network promos, video games and animation. Clients have included DirecTV, Lays Potato Chips, Full Tilt Poker,[14] Round Table Pizza and the networks Disney XD, Bravo[9] and Fuel.[15] Ian was the narrator for Fuse's Mad Genius,[16] Pepsi/Twitter Live for Now and Scripps Top 3 of Everything. He also does some voice over on Jimmy Kimmel Live.[17]

MMA

Ian Harris with Mariusz Domasat, Ireland MMA seminar, January 2014

Ian began boxing at age six. He wrestled for two and a half years and trained Kenpo Karate, Wing Chun and Japanese Jujutsu for nine years. He also trained from 1992 to 2005 with Richard Bustillo, a Bruce Lee student. With him, Ian trained Jeet Kune Do and Muay Thai. In 1996 he also began to train Brazilian jiu-jitsu with Claudio Franca. He began training other fighters in 2003. Ian has been featured in Tapout Magazine and Grappling Magazine teaching techniques and was showcased in the book MMA Lessons, a collection of the best MMA techniques from Tapout Magazine.[18] Ian coined his MMA fighting style Fight Science. He currently trains fighters out of Systems Training Center in Hawthorne California.[2][19][20]

Awards

Film Awards and Accolades:

Filmography

Director

Music videos

Personal life

Ian was born and grew up in Santa Cruz, California, USA. He was interested in stand-up comedy, writing short stories, boxing, martial arts and surfing.

He lives with his wife Jeaninne and their daughter Bella in Los Angeles, California, USA.

References

  1. ↑ "The Evolution of Comedy tackles funny beliefs". Denver Westword Blogs. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "What's so funny (November 10, 2013)". Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Brooklyn Buddha ep.12". Wild Jones Podcast. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ Colanduno, Derek. "Skepticality Critical and Thinking". Skepticality. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Evolution of Comedy". Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Ian Harris: Critical & Thinking" (PDF). 2 Tone Productions. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Fashion Police". US Weekly. Renner Media. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  8. ↑ "The Evolution of Comedy Tour". YouTube. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Ep39 - Ian Harris". The Kira Soltanovich Show. 6 January 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Schedule". CFI Summit 2013. Center for Inquiry. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Atheists United". Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Top 100". 2 tone productions. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  13. ↑ "It Burns When I Laugh". Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Different Promos". Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Different Promos". Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Mad Genius Promo". Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  17. ↑ "Ventura Comedy Special". Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  18. ↑ Tapout Magazine. ISBN 1600784089.
  19. ↑ "Ardent Atheist". Retrieved February 17, 2014.
  20. ↑ "The Dad Podcast". Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  21. ↑ "Pashittu". Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  22. ↑ "Pashittu New Port Beach". Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  23. ↑ "Pashittu Swansea Bay" (PDF). Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  24. ↑ "Echelon Studios". Retrieved February 25, 2014.
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