75. Zarna Garg: Humor is a Strategy

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Zarna Garg immigrated to the U.S. from India at age 16 and started performing stand-up comedy in her forties. As Zarna’s daughter Zoya explained in her New York Times-published college essay, it was not an easy path. Zarna sits down with Mike to discuss how humor has always been a strategy in her life, from escaping an impending arranged marriage to navigating life in a new country. Plus stories and jokes about upgrading her husband, trashing her mother-in-law on stage, and why Zarna approaches stand-up comedy like hosting a dinner party.

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0:00.0	You trash your husband so hard in your act.
0:03.0	Oh, well.
0:04.0	And it's the riot.
0:05.0	And it's like...
0:06.0	I don't worry about it too much, because you know what's gonna happen, Mike.
0:09.0	I'm gonna become rich and famous, and then I'm gonna upgrade.
0:12.0	I'll go for Hollywood with this.
0:14.0	Oh my God.
0:15.0	And that's what you're doing this town.
0:17.0	I'm so glad you're being so forthright about this.
0:19.0	Yeah, I know, I told him to. I'm like, start looking.
0:22.0	Because this is happening.
0:23.0	Oh my gosh.
0:25.0	That is the voice of the great Zarna Garg.
0:30.0	Zarna Garg is a comedian who I met at the Comedy Cellar.
0:35.0	I think is a riot.
0:39.0	Just has a fascinating life story moved to America from India when she was 16 years old
0:46.0	and has this wildly burgeoning stand-up career right now.
0:52.0	She's on tour. She's making viral Instagram and TikTok videos.
0:58.0	Her handle is at Zarna Garg, ZAR, and a G-A-R-G.
1:04.0	We have a great talk today.
1:06.0	I mean, it's like one of the more fascinating people who I've met in my entire comedy career.
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