What do you get when you take your very best jokes from over the
last 30 years, lovingly restore, refine and remaster each one, jam
them all into a single hour, and finally, sprinkle in some
brand-new material with a hint of improv? You get the best of Arj
Barker. Also known as Power Hour.
This year, Australias favourite American comedian Arj Barker is
bringing his Power Hour show to Geelong on Saturday 28
October 2023.
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In recent years, he has spent more time in our country than his
own and has come to understand our culture perhaps better than we
understand it ourselves. His stand-up is both insightful and
pointed, like a mind-reading thumb tack, if there were one of
those.
Arj has gained major International exposure from his role as
Dave on HBOs Flight of the Concords. This, as well as dozens of
appearances on popular Aussie TV shows like the original Hey Hey
Its Saturday (yep, hes been coming here for a while) Thank God
Youre Here, The Glasshouse, Good News Week, Rove Live, The Project,
Talkin Bout My Generation, Spicks and Specks, the Great Debate and
of course the MICF Gala, he has become a household name in
Australia. He was also the very first guest ever to appear on
Gordon St. Tonight with Adam Hills, and nobody can ever take that
away from him, no matter what happens.
In his home country (well, country of birth at least), he has
appeared regularly as a guest on many popular shows including those
hosted by David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan OBrian, Jimmy Kimmel and
Bill Maher. He has also had three of his very own comedy specials
on Comedy Central.
Arj has been a popular act at the most celebrated comedy
festivals worldwide, including the Edinburgh Fringe, Just For
Laughs in Montreal, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
now for almost two decades. A prolific and hardworking comic, who
tours constantly, Arj has released five DVDS, two of which have
been nominated for ARIAs in Australia although he aint won yet. But
winning aint everything. There can be only one winner, but there
are many losers. So all were saying is, maybe theres something to
be said for strength in numbers??
Some of Arj Barkers other projects include The Marijuana-Logues
(co-creator), stony parody of the Vagina Monologues which ran
off-broadway in NYC for an entire year, and the whimsical animated
web series Ari and Poopy (co-creator}, which has a cult online
following of fans ranging from 3 to 76 years. Turns...