Aristotle Athari Biography: In His Own Words – Exclusive Video, News, Photos, Age

Aristotle Athari, also known as Aristotle Athiras, is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is best known for his short stint as a cast member on the popular NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he appeared for its 47th season.

ARISTOTLE ATHARI BIOGRAPHY: AGE, EARLY LIFE, FAMILY, EDUCATION

Aristotle Athari was born on July 28, 1991 (Aristotle Athari age: 32) in Plano, Texas. He is of Iranian American descent.

For college, Athari attended the University of Southern California.

ARISTOTLE ATHARI BIOGRAPHY: CAREER

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Athari revealed what inspired him and made him want to begin his comedy career in the first place.

“I mean, I was always a class clown growing up,” Athari declared. “Really, kind of, that was the only thing I was good at, I guess, maybe? I liked art a lot in school, but wasn’t the best student growing up. A teacher told me once that – I remember what it was – everybody had to talk about what they wanted to do when they grew up, and it was like lawyer, doctor, blah, blah, blah. I said comedian, and she goes, ‘oh, that makes sense.’ And so that to me kind of stuck with me my whole life. And so yeah, I mean, I started doing stand-up when I was in college and then I did improv as well, and then started focusing a little bit more on stand-up. And then, I mean, it’s a long road, you know? But that’s kind of, I don’t know, I don’t really know how to do anything else. I know how to do a few other things, but yeah, that’s kind of it for me.”

Moving on to the newly released sci-fi/romance film Molli and Max in the Future, Athari discussed what it was like working with fellow cast member Zosia Mamet.

“Well, Zosia [Mamet] is very, very easy to work with because she’s just so f—ing pleasurable,” Athari exclaimed. “She’s just like such a nice person to be with. It’s like I was waiting for a moment to be like, you know, kind of that moment where you know somebody’s like a little Hollywood, and she’s like not like that at all. We shared a lot of photos of our dogs back and forth with each other. We kind of became best friends before we even met because we had been talking through Zoom, I don’t know, about a few weeks prior to us actually meeting and starting rehearsals and whatnot but, yeah, I mean, I think probably, maybe my favorite moment when we were shooting was the tennis scenes because we were yelling and that was pretty fun. I mean it was all fun. I mean, it was really hard not to have fun. Even the hot times when we were in that LED studio, it was fun, you know? Because I’d never been in an LED stage in my life and that was really cool.”

When asked about their favorite scenes in the film, here is what director Michael Litwik and Athari had to share:

“One of my favorite scenes,” Athari said. Or one of the scenes I’m very grateful for, is the scene where Max is professing his love to Molli because I feel like I learned so much just from watching Zosia do, you know, do her reverse on it, or her part of the scene with me,” Athari said. “I just felt like I grew a lot as a performer. Well, I grew a lot as a performer just doing this whole thing to begin with, but yeah, like when you work in comedy you don’t really get an opportunity to do those kinds of scenes, you know? I had done stuff like that, like some plays and stuff when I was younger, but when you do comedy for so long, you don’t really get that opportunity again and I was very grateful for that, so that was fun. I know it’s a very emotional thing, like to say that that was fun to really be sad, but it was my favorite.”

“It’s so hard to separate what my favorite scene is without thinking about the challenges of shooting the project of like, what scene was the hardest to film and the easiest to film,” Litwik confessed. “But I think one of my favorite moments in the movie is just one of the dumbest moments in the movie, which is when Max leaves his father. I don’t know if I want to spoil it here, but I think the first ten to twelve minutes of the movie is pretty grounded and I think the movie ramps up its absurdity and his first interaction with his dad, it just, you realize you’re on a roller coaster ride and you’ve got to either strap in or the movie’s not for you,” Litwik laughed. “And working with Danny Burstein, who’s like a Broadway legend, and just was so fun. I wish we could have had more time and just build out that character even more, but yeah, that was so much fun, and shooting on the LED stage was just so nice because you get to see what’s behind you and I think that helps for everybody involved.”

ARISTOTLE ATHARI BIOGRAPHY: PERSONAL LIFE

Athari currently resides in Los Angeles, California, per his Twitter account. In September 2021, he got married to photographer Maura Grace.