Zarna Garg never set out to be a trailblazer. But the comedian keeps shattering glass ceilings—sometimes without even trying.

In a new interview on The Daily Beast Podcast, Garg, 50, detailed her rise from stay at home mother of three to globally-acclaimed comedian.

“I assumed there were lots of Indian women doing comedy in India,” she told host Joanna Coles. “[But] there’s no one in my profile in this whole world that does what I do.”

The comedian and author of New York Times bestseller This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir told Coles a career in comedy was a “preposterous” idea back when she started out in 2019.

Just one percent of of stand-up comedians in the United States are South Asian and 38 percent women, according to 2025 data collected by CareerExplorer.

But Garg’s

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