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.

[citation needed] In 2000 he moved back to Los Angeles, where he earned a reputation for being brash and irreverent in his comedy.

"[3][4] He has made fun of Vaccine controversies, glucose intolerance, politics, religions, and the homeopathic “cold preventer” Airborne.

[2][8] Harris' second hour TV special "ExtraOrdinary" was released Dec 12, 2017, by Adam Carolla's Chassy Media and is available on video-on-demand platforms.

They’re constantly surrounded by Jesus, nativity scenes, the right-wing propaganda is in full effect, it’s like Fox News year-round.

They’re constantly surrounded by Jesus, nativity scenes.In the year 2001 he was on the Top 100 Comedians list of the Entertainment Business Journal,[21] 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.

[15] In 2003 Ian began performing voice-overs in a commercial for Universal Orlando Resorts that aired on the Super Bowl of the same year.

Clients have included DirecTV, Lays Potato Chips, Full Tilt Poker,[24] Round Table Pizza and the networks Disney XD, Bravo[15] and Fuel.

[31] Harris has been contributing a comedy essay focusing on critical thinking to the Skeptical Inquirer magazine in 2017-2018 in a column called The Last Laugh.

“I grew up in the 80s (…) in Santa Cruz, in this kind of hippie counter-culture, with punk rock, which was huge in the Bay area back in the 80s.

My act is kind of punk rocky.” As a consequence, he tends to attract crowds of a certain age, the same older, white, educated people he meets at secularism conventions.

My act is kind of punk rocky.Harris believes people within the secular movement should respect the range of political opinions of its members.