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Arun Sriram is a Chartered Accountant by profession and standup comedian by passion

He has performed in various cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad,  Mysore, Goa and London

He has to his credit four solo specials Unmute! (2018), Saar (2019), Am I audible (2020) and Ctrl+Z ( 2021). He is currently touring with a compilation of the best sets from these specials and calls it "The Laughing Stock".

His comedy style is clean and non controversial. Ideal for a fun evening, corporate gigs and private parties.

In his bid to make inclusion commonplace in performing arts, Arun is the first Indian standup comedian to perform with a sign language interpreter alongside on stage in a live show.

Arun is immensely passionate about performing arts and besides being a standup comedian, has also learnt basics of Improv and Acting.

He hosts a seasonal fortnightly instalive chat show Half an Our where he interviews his friends and acquaintances who are on different stages of fruition in their inspirational journeys.

Arun also has a series called SinkedIn Guru which is a parody on shallow LinkedIn posts.

Arun is also a founder host and current fanelist of Toast The Toss, a cricket talk show conducted by some cricket crazy Toastmasters

In his corporate career, Arun Sriram has worked in the finance domain for close to two decades in companies like Unilever, Infosys, Mu Sigma and Reliance Infocomm. He has worked in different cities like Mumbai, Bangalore and Melbourne and it is this richness in experience and exposure that paid a critical role in his comedy sets as well.

Arun has also ventured into entrepreneurship.Though not very successful, his venture Heartisans, a souvenir range that celebrates Indian diversity was an eye opener for him on what the real life challenges of being an entrepreneur was. Something that no MBA could have taught him.