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Through the first year of her comedy-club performances, she expected each set to be her last, says Zarna Garg, laughing..
PREMIUM In her comedy, Garg questions why brown women must laugh in secret..
As she told tales of her inability to not parent (at the checkout counter, if the person is young, I tell them, Do your MCAT; take the CPA exam on Saturday); about the differences in her two cultures (if my husband said I love you, Id know he was cheating on me with a white woman, because where else is he learning it?), the crowds at her sets grew..
With her warm persona and all-embracing smile, she talks about how brown women dont get to laugh enough; how the archetypal Indian mother-in-law is the worlds greatest super-villain; how its possible that Indians are so good at the spelling bee because were not good at other things; were not athletes and dont get us to dance..
In India and in a lot of brown nations, women hide and watch my videos, she tells co-hosts Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson, forehead scrunched in confusion, on the CBS Mornings show..
