Aaron Chen on E3 and O1 Visas

Kit Johnson

27 Apr 2026 — 1 min read

By Tessa Bury - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=166166378

Aaron Chen is a stand-up comic hailing from Sydney, Australia. His show Funny Garden is currently streaming on Netflix. (You may also recognize Chen from his role as George on Fisk.)

I happened to catch this snippet of Funny Garden on my socials:

One clip, two visas: the E3 and the O1. I'll be honest, I hadn't known that the E3 visa has been described as a "thank you" to Australia for its participation in the Global War on Terror. (At least, the NY Times has said so.) I love learning new things through comedy.

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