Aaron Aryanpur is an American stand-up comedian, artist, and voice actor from Dallas, Texas.
11 Facts About Aaron Aryanpur
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Aaron Aryanpur grew up in the Texas towns of Denton, Palestine, and Plano, and graduated from Plano Senior High School.
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Aaron Aryanpur studied graphic design at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating in 2000.
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Aaron Aryanpur first performed stand-up in 2002, and became a full-time comic in 2013.
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Aaron Aryanpur's material is often about his family life as a father and husband.
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Jeremy Hallock of the Dallas Observer has noted that Aaron Aryanpur's style, typified by long-form stories with an "impeccable sense of rhythm", avoids the lack of edginess associated with family comedy by "capturing the anger and frustration that goes with the territory while making it hilarious".
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Aaron Aryanpur himself is not Indian but of Iranian descent, but was invited because, as Aaron Aryanpur said jokingly in an interview, "they looked around for Indian comics and ran out after only two," but needed a third for the tour's theme to work.
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Aaron Aryanpur was a semifinalist in Comedy Central's 2013 national Up Next Talent Search and NBC's Stand Up for Diversity.
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Aaron Aryanpur has frequently performed on the Fox TV series Laughs.
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Aaron Aryanpur's 2018 album Employee of the Day is an exploration of fatherhood from both sides, juxtaposing Aryanpur's life with his children and his father, who died shortly after the recording of the album.
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Aaron Aryanpur has worked in the advertising industry as a creative director.