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Fidance, originally from Wilmington, Delaware, has been featured on popular podcasts such as The Joe Rogan Experience, Your Mom’s House with Tom Segura & Christina P., Duncan Trussell’s Family Hour, and Kill Tony to name just a few. He has also been featured on NPR’s This American Life.
On the acting side, Ian co-starred in multiple sketches on the latest season of the “Gilly and Keeves” sketch show with Shane Gillis, TBS’ “The Last OG” with Tracy Morgan, HBO Max’s “Pause with Sam Jay,” and was featured on “This Week at the Comedy Cellar” on Comedy Central. He’s making his acting debut in the upcoming feature film “Office Race” starring Beck Bennett, Joel McHale, JB Smoov, and Kelsey Grammar.
A true honor, Fidance was a contributing writer on the most recent season of “Crank Yankers” on Comedy Central and did punch up work on Michelle Obama’s children’s cooking show “Waffles + Mochi” on Netflix. His work has been published alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Odenkirk, Ray Ramano, and Maria Bamford in a book of poems entitled “Eating Salad Drunk: Haiku’s for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats” available now through Macmillan Publishers.
His wildly popular podcast co-hosted by fellow comic, and best friend, Jordan Jensen “Bein’ Ian with Jordan” is available on all platforms.
He currently resides in Brooklyn with his cat Samson.
I’m really happy with how people are receiving the special – especially because I’m such a live act, hearing that it has the feel of a live show is something I’m really proud of. I have to give credit to my director James Webb, editor Ethan Dupree, and the whole production crew for capturing that live show experience feel.
I really worked hard at making the special have an arc – a beginning middle and end of silly fun, explicit vulnerability, and an ultimate message of hope, happiness, and love, all while using myself, my story and how I see the world as a vehicle to guide the audience. Doing that while having the primary focus of being fucking funny was what made crafting this special so fun for me. I don’t care what’s said as long as it’s funny and we’re laughing for the right reasons – always about, never at – and so building this hour with some heavy topics was challenging but really rewarding to finish and I’m just glad people are digging it.
Now the new fun has been crafting a new hour with no joke repeats so I’ve been forcing myself to do a new set mostly improvised each night so the next special will be even wilder, even happier, and even more free.”
