Ian Karmel is an Emmy award winning LA-based stand-up comedian, actor, and writer originally from Portland, Oregon. Ian was head writer for the Emmy award winning The Late Late Show with James Corden, and was one of the founding writers in the show’s 2015 re-creation. Previously he was a staff writer and round table regular on E!’s Chelsea Lately. Ian’s debut memoir, T-Shirt Swim Club, co-written with his sister Alisa Karmel, released by the Penguin Random House imprint Harmony & Rodale Books, is available now.
In this exclusive excerpt from his new memoir “T-Shirt Swim Club,” comedian Ian Karmel writes about the pop culture caricatures that haunted his childhood.
