Tarver has performed comedy with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles since 2010. He is a member of the sketch and improv comedy group Big Grande (alongside comedians Jon Mackey, Ryan Rosenberg, and Dan Lippert) and plays Bill Cravy on their podcast, ''Big Grande: The Teacher's Lounge
. With Big Grande, Tarver co-wrote and starred in a 22-minute original comedy pilot for Funny or Die and several episodes of The UCB Show. Tarver is also a regular guest on the podcast Comedy Bang! Bang!'', where his popular characters include Heimlich maneuver inventor Henry Heimlich, 80s new wave singer Martin Sheffield-Lickley, and one half of the country music duo Memphis Kansas Breeze, opposite
Carl Tart. The latter two characters originated on the UCB stage and were written by Tarver's frequent collaborators Nick Ciarelli and Brad Evans. In 2014, Tarver played Todd, the gay best friend of lead
Greta Gerwig on the pilot
How I Met Your Dad, which was not picked up by CBS. He was an ensemble cast member on
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, in which he portrayed the role of Baxter Reynolds. The first three seasons streamed on
Seeso from 2016 to 2017. The fourth and final season aired on
Pluto TV in 2019. Tarver was cast in the lead role of Cary Dubek in the 2019 Comedy Central series
The Other Two. He described it as his first series role that is not an exaggerated comedic character as seen in his previous work in improv and sketch comedy. In 2025, Tarver starred opposite
Kate Hudson in the Netflix streaming series
Running Point. The series, about a family that owns the fictional
NBA team the Los Angeles Waves, was co-created by
Mindy Kaling and
Ike Barinholtz. ==Personal life==