Ira Madison III


Ira Madison III is an American TV writer and podcaster. A former critic at The Daily Beast, GQ Magazine, and other publications, Madison is currently the host of the Crooked Media podcast Keep It! and a writer on the Netflix series Daybreak.

Early life

Madison attended Loyola University Chicago as an undergraduate, then New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for a master's degree in Dramatic Writing.

Career

Madison began developing a following on social media in the early 2010s as a writer for MTV News and BuzzFeed. He has since written for various publications, including Variety, GQ Magazine, and The Daily Beast. Madison was named one of the "most reliably hilarious and incisive cultural critics writing now" by Nylon in 2016. Nylon also named Madison to its 2016 list of "The 25 Best Things We Read Online In 2016," calling his essay on Donald Trump's political rise "a fascinating look at the culturally sanctioned making of a monster." Madison co-hosted a podcast at MTV News with Doreen St. Félix in 2016 called Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen, that focused on music, pop culture, and race. In April 2017, Madison was featured in the documentary The Culture of Proximity. In January 2018, Crooked Media launched the podcast, Keep It!, which is hosted by Madison. In December 2019, Madison had a cameo in Season 2 of the Netflix show, You.