Aaron Aryanpur
Stand-up comedian · Dallas, TX

Aaron Aryanpur

Who Aaron Aryanpur is

Aaron Aryanpur is a Dallas stand-up comedian known for sharply personal, relatable observations delivered with an expressive, likable style. He won the Funniest Comic in Texas contest in 2012, was a semifinalist in Comedy Central's Up Next Talent Search and NBC's Stand Up for Diversity, made his national television debut on Fox's Laughs, and was named the Dallas Observer's best comedian of 2017. His debut album, In Spite Of (Stand Up!

Records, 2016), reached number one on the iTunes comedy chart and the Billboard comedy top ten, and his second, Employee of the Day, followed on the same label in May 2018. He co-hosted the podcast Minivan Men with Maz Jobrani and Al Madrigal, has been heard on Comedy Central Radio, was also drawing a weekly comic strip, Next Window Please, in 2018, and a track of his was played on SiriusXM's Raw Dog Comedy channel in 2023.

At a glance

Based in
Dallas, TX
Albums
In Spite Of and Employee of the Day
Podcasts
Minivan Men
On screen
Laughs
Official site
aaronaryanpur.com ↗

On stage

No dated show on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now — their own site has their dates: aaronaryanpur.com ↗.

Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →

Specials, shows and podcasts

Albums

On screen

Podcasts

Their stand-up

Aryanpur first performed stand-up in 2002, the year Raj Sharma and Paul Varghese invited him to join their Indians at the Improv tour, and became a full-time comic in 2013; In Spite Of was recorded at Hyena's Comedy Club in Dallas in 2015.

He has played South by Southwest, Gilda's LaughFest, Moontower and the Dallas Comedy Festival, opened for Maz Jobrani's Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, and voiced characters in the video games Paladins and Smite; in 1998 he created Temoc, the mascot of the University of Texas at Dallas.

Questions and answers

Where is Aaron Aryanpur performing next?

No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now; their own site has their dates: aaronaryanpur.com ↗.

What podcast do they host?

Minivan Men.

What TV shows and films are they in?

Laughs.

Where are they based?

Dallas, TX, as their record gives it.

The full SUCDb record

The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.

Their SUCDb record →Their own site ↗

Sources

Updated 9 October 2026 · the record checked 8 October 2026