Aaron Chen

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Aaron Chen
Aaron Chen at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.jpg
Chen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024
Born1995/1996(age 28–29)
Occupations
  • Comedian
  • actor
Years active2011–present

Aaron Chen (born 1995/1996) is an Australian comedian and actor from Sydney.

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Early life and education

Chen was born in 1995or1996. [1] [2]

He attended North Sydney Boys High, where he started performing stand-up comedy. [1]

Career

In 2012, aged 15, Chen won Melbourne International Comedy Festival's "Class Clowns", a national competition for high-school children, and after this started performing in pubs around Sydney. [1]

In 2014 Chen appeared at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in its "Comedy Zone" section. [3]

In 2017, Chen performed his debut solo show The Infinite Faces Of Chenny Baby, appearing at the Melbourne and Sydney Comedy Festivals and touring nationally, earning good reviews and selling out his shows and earning Best Newcomer awards at both. [4] In the same year, he unintentionally caused controversy in the Australian soccer world by appearing as an unconventional interviewer at a football game, [4] a friendly between English Premier League club Liverpool F.C. and Sydney F.C.. [1] In the same year, Aaron Chen Tonight, filmed live in Café Lounge, Surry Hills, Sydney, was broadcast on ABC Television. [4]

From 2021, Chen has played probate clerk and Webmaster, George, in Kitty Flanagan's ABC sitcom about a law firm, Fisk . [1] [5] Also in 2021 he appeared on the panel show Patriot Brains . [6]

In 2022, Chen performed his show If It Weren't Filmed, Nobody Would Believe at the Melbourne and Sydney Comedy Festivals, [1] with a video of the show released on YouTube in September 2022. [7]

Chen has performed at Splendour in the Grass music festival, and supported Ronny Chieng on his Australian tour as well as featuring in his ABC TV show, Ronny Chieng: International Student . [4] He has also performed on a number of panel shows on TV. [7]

Chen was awarded the People's Choice Award at the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. [8]

In 2024, Chen served as the assistant on the Australian version of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee , [9] and participated as a contestant on the third series of Taskmaster Australia , alongside Concetta Caristo, Mel Buttle, Peter Helliar and Rhys Nicholson. [10]

In 2025, Chen performed stand-up on Late Night with Seth Meyers . [11]

Personal life

Chen proposed to Esther Shim in May 2022 at McDonald's, announcing their engagement afterwards on Instagram. [12] [13]

Filmography

Key
†Denotes films that have not yet been released

Film

TitleYearRoleNotesRef(s)
Shortcut to Becoming an Influencer2018Hunter Short film
Set Times2022Aiden
The Dink †TBAFilming

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef(s)
2015Dirty Bird—Episode: "Labyrinth"
20171800 SuccessAaron 3 episodes
Goscy's ClassicsWhaler 1Episode: "Ocean Girl"
Get Krack!n Beach ManEpisode: "#1.2"
True Story with Hamish & Andy Dacks Episode: "Jack"
Ronny Chieng: International Student Trojan WongEpisode: "Clash! Ronny vs Instructions! Obey?"
2018 Orange Is the New Brown IT Guy / Zhu / Tony Chan5 episodes
Very Small Business Kim Park8 episodes
Pls Like Carl3k Episode: "Most Views"
Pilot WeekMcIntyre Episode: "Drunk History"
2020 Drunk History Australia Cop / Fed Cop / Swimming Official2 episodes
At Home Alone Together Eugene 2 episodes
Stepmom BluesAaron Episode: "6 - Finale"
2021
present		 Fisk George 18 episodes
2021 Rosehaven Caller (voice)Episode: "#5.4"
2023 Love Me Vincent Episode: "Kämpa då"
Koala Man Dennis (voice)Episode: "Ode to a Koala Bear"
2024 Fam Time Menulog Guy2 episodes

Other appearances

YearTitleRoleNotesRef(s)
2019Comedy BlapsHimself Episode: "Get Real Dude"
2021
present		 Have You Been Paying Attention? 7 episodes
2023 Thank God You're Here 2 episodes
2024 Taskmaster Australia Season winner
3 episodes
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee 8 episodes [14]

Recognition and awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Rugendyke, Louise (2 April 2022). "'You don't do just easy things': The rise and rise of comedian Aaron Chen". The Sydney Morning Herald . Archived from the original on 16 August 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022. The 26-year-old comedian
  2. ↑ Aaron Chen - If Weren't Filmed, Nobody Would Believe (Full Special) on YouTube, 24 September 2022. "I'm 27 years old."
  3. ↑ Lan, Christine (7 April 2022). "Comedy Zone 2022: Five hand-picked unique and brilliant comedians". Beat Magazine. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Aaron Chen". The Sit Down Comedy Club. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  5. ↑ "Filming begins on Kitty Flanagan comedy | TV Tonight". 27 October 2020.
  6. ↑ Story, Hannah (13 April 2021). "Bill Bailey on new Aussie-versus-Kiwi panel show 'Patriot Brains': "Comedy is in a good place"". NME. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  7. 1 2 Pandya, Hershal (3 October 2022). "Go for a Loop With One of Australia's Best Comedians". Vulture. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  8. ↑ "2024 Award Winners" . Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  9. ↑ "Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee premieres this August on ABC". ABC. 17 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  10. ↑ "Taskmaster Australia Announces It's [sic] Season 2 Line-Up!". 10 play. 10 July 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  11. ↑ "Late Night Last Week: Bill Burr and Jon Stewart Rip LA Wildfire Trolls" . Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  12. ↑ "Sydney comedian Aaron Chen proposed to his wife-to-be at McDonald's". news.com.au. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  13. ↑ "Popular Aussie comedian Aaron Chen hides ring in unique McDonald's nuggets proposal". PerthNow . 3 May 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  14. ↑ "Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee". ABC iview. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  15. ↑ A Life In Questions: Wisdom School with Aaron Chen on YouTube Adult Swim, 9 December 2020
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