Zarna Garg is one of the fastest-rising comedians in America. The India-born, New York–based stand-up has amassed tens of millions of views across social media, built a massive following on TikTok and Instagram, and gone from stay-at-home mom to sold-out comedy shows in just a few years. A former litigation attorney who stepped away from law to raise three kids, Zarna now channels that life experience into sharp, fearless comedy about immigrant families, parenting, and the cultural divide between generations.

In this conversation, I sit down with Zarna Garg to talk about her unlikely path into stand-up, why motherhood turned out to be the perfect training ground for comedy, and how a few seconds of the right joke can ignite millions of comments online. We get into the psychology of viral content, the differences between performing live and performing for the internet, and the cultural tensions between immigrants and their American-born kids that fuel so much of her material.

Zarna is thoughtful, hilarious, and completely unfiltered - and this conversation goes everywhere from TikTok strategy to the deeper question of what it means to reinvent yourself later in life.

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