BEST OF WIO: Zarna Garg

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Zarna Garg: Humor is a Strategy (Recorded June 2022) 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,
0:07.0	because you know what's gonna happen, Mike.
0:09.0	I'm gonna become rich and famous,
0:10.0	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, Count.
0:17.0	I'm so glad you're being so forthright about this.
0:19.0	Yeah, I know. I told him to.
0:20.0	I'm like, start looking,
0:21.0	because this is happening.
0:23.0	Oh, my gosh.
0:25.0	That is the voice of Zarna Garg.
0:29.0	Start looking.
0:31.0	Everybody starts looking.
0:34.0	Zarna Garg is like one of the funniest comedians
0:37.0	I've ever encountered.
0:38.0	I met her at the Comedy Cellar.
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