Being a comedian was never Zarna Garg’s dream.
She never expected it’d be the career she’d fall into once her youngest son started school — even though it was fated.
“The astrologer in my chart had written, this girl will talk and talk and talk,” Garg tells me. “ I had a moment of like, I didn’t come [to America] so I could just drive kids around from class to class.”
Her kids were the ones who pushed her to pursue comedy. To appease them, she went to an open mic that her friend recommended. “And I never looked back,” she says.
Anyone who’s seen her on social media knows that Garg’s identity — as an immigrant, as a brown person living in America, as a parent, as a practical optimist — is the lens through which she delivers her humor. Her newest comedy special, “Practical People Win,” which premieres on Hulu on July 18, is no different. If anything, the special is the laugh-out-loud, witty articulation of everything that Garg has stood for, and continues to.
