Arj Barker

Arj Barker, born Arjan Singh Aulakh on August 12, 1974, is an American comedian and actor from San Anselmo, California. He has toured in North America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. He was born to an engineer father of Indian Punjabi Sikh descent and an artist mother of European descent, and was educated at Sir Francis Drake High School.

Barker started his career in comedy after graduating from high school in 1989, with his first gigs at a café called Caffe Nuvo in downtown San Anselmo, where he hosted stand-up night every Sunday throughout the early 1990s. He appeared on Premium Blend in 1997, followed by appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Glass House, and twice hosted Comedy Central Presents. He co-wrote and performed in The Marijuana-Logues, an Off-Broadway show in New York City, with Doug Benson and Tony Camin. Barker also appeared in the HBO sitcom Flight of the Conchords, playing Dave.

Barker has been successful in Australia for a number of years since first appearing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2000, and presently resides there. He created his own Flash animation series, Arj and Poopy, based on some of his stand-up material, whose episode "Unlucky in Love" won the Annecy International Animated Film Festival Internet Selection in 2006. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, he won Best Comedy Release for Organic.