David Batra

David Batra (born David Chandra Batra on 29 November 1972 in Lund) is a Swedish stand-up comedian and TV actor. He was born to an Indian father and a Swedish mother, and was educated at Slippery Rock University. Batra started doing stand-up comedy in 1994, and has written and played leading roles in comedy series on Swedish national television.

He has performed not only in Sweden but also in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Spain and the USA, and has appeared on BBC and CNBC. In 2009, he released a music CD containing "irritating and annoying sounds" intended for people wishing to disturb their neighbors, featuring loud snores, burps and other noises. That same year he made his debut in the TV4 program Parlamentet, and participated in the comedy program Cirkus Moller. In 2012, he replaced Norwegian comedian Calle Hellevang-Larsen as the sidekick on the Norwegian talkshow I kveld med YLVIS.

Batra is the author of four books on humor as well as a cook book. Since 2017, he has served on the jury of the television program Talang. He is married to Swedish politician Anna Kinberg Batra, the former leader of the Moderate Party, Sweden's largest party on the centre-right, and together they have a daughter.