Arj Barker - 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala

#ArjBarker spent lockdown in Melbourne and has a few things to say.
Recorded on Wednesday 17 March 2021 at the Palais Theatre for ABC - The Gala, proudly supporting Oxfam. Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Oxfam, tackling poverty together.
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[@triscurtis]

Love it how Arj makes a point to say 'Melbourne' with an Aussie accent

[@leahb87]

He does live here so...

[@Grufftastic]

In Vick toe rea!

[@MachineThatCreates]

My God he's turned into a bloody Aussie.

[@annienickledoo]

He will NEVER be that!! His sense of humour is stupid.

[@willstanton7823]

We've Australianized Arj, I love it

[@travismcnasty4239]

I think you guys just love his American style of goofiness applied to his comedy. He's basically the Cool Ranch Dorito of the stage.

[@ClassicMiddleton]

The longer Arj lives in Australia, the more he looks like Ray Romano

[@Prof.Pwnalot]

Lol. Guy was making the rounds in Australia when the show was on TV around dinner time :P (Early 2000s)

[@kingwillbisthebest]

😂

[@Naeyx]

Arj still crushing it

[@adambrown7893]

Argy Bargy is back!!

[@FabioDosReisIam]

Man this set is underated. Those jokes, tied to actual circumstances the crowd is facing is too

[@liamhayes9037]

IS TOO WHAT?

[@Nimbleatthat]

Dear lord OP. Did you really have to say that. Have you ever heard of observational humour?

[@gicking3898]

Warden Dan!!!! Killed it!

[@alexanderwarby-cooper3549]

The Legend is back 😍

[@rjak187]

Arji barji

[@GaryDiamondComedy]

Always guaranteed a bunch of laughs at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Keep up the good work guys 🤣😂😅

[@charlesc5157]

The smartest and the funniest stand-up for real

[@leishayoung4124]

I love you Arj! So good to have you back broseph xx oo

[@Prof.Pwnalot]

One of the best observational comics in Aus. Still goes hard like its the early 2000s.

[@gordanz92]

Damn, he's been living here a while hey. Sounding like an actual Aussie.

[@samraj5186]

One of the best to ever do it. Love him!

[@OkinInc]

Arj! Always a crack up.

[@1asianbobby]

My fave comedian!

[@bravetherainbow]

Oh hey that "travel bubble" joke is great, I love silly shit like that

[@natevaG85]

Caught his Sydney show last night. Had the best laugh 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[@adamiimusic5557]

One of the funniest in the Melbourne Comedy fest

[@dnangel4277]

Funny af! 😂

[@TomSimak]

So good 😂

[@XDB888]

Always love Arj

[@deadschooled]

Lol. He's still got it!

[@amandalarsen8093]

Love yah arj u always looked stoned, funny man....

[@verenaobrien2450]

Brilliant

[@azeezak1]

The 10 years since I last saw Arj has turned him into Ray Romano

[@FluffyRaT]

Alogorythm thingy cause I love arj.

[@bradbell7630]

Well done Melbourne your bacccckkkkkkkkkkk

[@roloug95]

Aaaaand they’re not lol

[@sarcasmo57]

Gun it. classic

[@simonettacarsonelli]

Explicitly logical dude.

[@v1rotate300]

Best comedian ever..this guy actually makes me laugh

[@marynoonan6111]

Gun it mate, get your arse over here before it turns red. Hahahah. He's beginning to sound Aussie. He really was stuck here in lockdown I gather? Lucky us. He's a funny man

[@MsDimsta]

Funny!!!

[@mithrasrevisited4873]

Victoria has the traffic signal system.

[@realitycheck2092]

Arjy barjy will go ya

[@Richard_T89]

Weird how he’s like “our rights were taken away lol”

[@CNNBlackmailSupport]

This man has balls the size of cantaloupes to have done this set there with them when he did.

[@Prof.Pwnalot]

He's always like this man, guys amazing. Observational comedy with elements of truth. He was saying what everyone was thinking, minus the game of thrones references :) I personally thought of what lead the UK into sending convicts here. (Overpopulation of those locked up in the UK)

[@CNNBlackmailSupport]

@@Prof.Pwnalot when I was in high-school I'd watch the comedy central specials when I got home. Dana Carvey, Demetri Martin, and Arj Barker. The air freshener joke killed me, but the voice-mail joke was almost a perfect Norm-esque joke while remaining uniquely Barker's. The unlimited grenades joke was also just fantastic.

[@christosververakis3861]

He’s a fucking legend

[@funsimulator7246]

How does this guy look like a cross breed of Jimmy Fallen and Snape?

[@matcole1975]

Would be funny if it wasnt so true. 🤣 Funny side is he makes our State and Federal governments a joke. 🤣💯💯👍👍

[@CNNBlackmailSupport]

I don't think they got the "south remembers" joke. I'm assuming it's an American Civil War joke, but maybe that's a phrase in Australia, too, and I'm wrong.

[@gmartins4393]

lol...nearly as squint as Rishi Sunak

[@imyourdoctor4799]

Mehh

[@RBFR01]

Is this suppose to be funny?

[@balung]

Agree, too many damn Victorian Rona Refugees have come up here to the Top End, lot of Territorians not happy about this, at all.

[@miffy2760]

It’s not funny!

[@theboss9950]

Nether are you

[@noobsaibot5285]

Plandemic

[@sarahkragness7138]

Barker didn't have a mom, he was cr*pped out under a rock and left there... 'Noises'... the sound of a happy baby are more obnoxious than drunks and screamers? Wuss.

[@theboss9950]

Maybe you should've thought about the other people at the show and not just the mother

[@Krazycat]

Not funny

[@theboss9950]

Are you describing yourself?

[@annienickledoo]

Not the least bit funny! He kicks mothers and babies out of his shows too.

[@theboss9950]

Read more into it and use common sense

[@jeffreyoneill4082]

ah. if Danny boy had done his job the lockdowns wouldn't have been needed. ugh. this is commedy??

[@slinkeepy]

Topical comedy, are you even Aussie?

[@blastermaster2383]

Arj & Danny bhoy both aren’t funny.Hopeless.

[@Wonderish403]

The lockdowns aren't needed, period.

[@mithrasrevisited4873]

If Morrison had actually taken responsibility for quarantine and age care then you would not be blaming the states for them. The states had to take control because Morrison would not.

[@mithrasrevisited4873]

@@Wonderish403 Tell that to the USA and UK.

[@jacobpope7545]

trash