Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Zarna Garg

To Zarna Garg, it really can’t be that hard. Amy hangs with the stand-up comic and talks about tour life with Amy and Tina, their shared love of “Three’s Company,” and possibly one of the best personal ads ever written. Host: Amy Poehler Guests: Zoya Garg and Zarna Garg Executive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel Lovell For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace, audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat Spillane Original Music: Amy Miles Introducing Visible Inner Circle: Connect accounts with anyone, share the savings. Visit https://www.visible.com/plans/inner-circle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 1h 24m
Broadcast on: 26 Aug 2025
Audio Format: other

Host: Amy Poehler

Guests: Zoya Garg and Zarna Garg

Executive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman

For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel Lovell

For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace, audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat Spillane

Original Music: Amy Miles

Introducing Visible Inner Circle: Connect accounts with anyone, share the savings. Visit https://www.visible.com/plans/inner-circle

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by eBay Live. Here's how it goes. First, you're watching the eBay Live stream telling yourself, "I'm just looking." And then, boom, you see a vintage Rolex go for an absolute steal. Suddenly, a rare beanie baby pops up, adrenaline hits, and you're bidding. You might lose that first one, but you bid again and win, and that winning rush? Incredible, because you beat everyone to it. Meanwhile, on eBay Live, you don't just watch the action. You're in it. Download the eBay app to stream and shop live. eBay Live, things people love. Hi, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. Very excited to talk to my guest, Zarna Garg. Zarna is a stand-up comedian, producer, writer, actress. I met Zarna when she came on tour with me in Tina Fey as we toured the country, and I got to know her and her work. Zarna is just so funny, and sharp, and honest, and she's going to talk about a lot of great things today. We're going to talk about her immigration story. We're going to talk about her very complicated feelings about romantic love, and we're going to talk about the fact that it's never too late to change your career and do what makes you happy. We're going to start this interview like we always do by talking to somebody who knows our guest and who gives me a question to ask them, and who better to talk about Zarna than her eldest daughter, the apple of her eye, the successful, beautiful, wonderful, Stanford senior Zoya. Zoya Garg is joining us, and she is every mother's dream. So let's see what Zoya has to say today. Hi, Zoya. Can you hear me? This episode of Good Hang is presented by Walmart. Now, everyone's talking about back-to-school outfits, and we all know how expensive that can be to get the shoes and the pants and the whole thing and the shirts and all the things that you need. But Walmart has the latest back-to-school styles for boys and girls starting at just $4. Who knew? So they've got graphic teas and joggers and colorful backpacks, Spider-Man hoodies, key chain charms, flannel shirts, flair jeans, crocs. Flair jeans are back! I love it. Who knew? Shop Walmart.com to score their favorite back-to-school styles, starting at just $4.

Wait, Zoya, you look so cute. Oh, thank you. I was so excited to be a part of this. Thanks so much for inviting me. Now, Zoya, you are Zarna's daughter and the oldest daughter. Congratulations from one eldest daughter to another. I know that it is a hard job to be the eldest. Yeah, eldest daughter is really challenging. And I would, I know your mom would want me to brag for you. What dorm room are you in at what college are you attending? I go to Stanford and... Incredible. Well, as she likes me to tell other people, I am studying computer science, but I did get to do a double major in classics, which is for me. And by the way, I don't really know what classics are. What is classics? Classics is any, any class from ancient Rome, Latin, completely in practical stuff. She likes to say I take her tuition money and I light it on fire. But it's for the R, it's for my enrichment. Zoya, I'm going to talk to your mom about her amazing book and us touring together. But I think a lot of people should be reminded of

how important you were to her early success and how you motivated her. Can you just tell people how you nudged your mom into the work that she's doing now? When I was growing up, my mom had given up her career as a lawyer to raise me and my younger brothers. And my dad was the primary breadwinner. But when I was growing older, I noticed that she more and more really wanted to earn her own money. She was starting all these businesses, like a tomato sauce company and a toothpaste business and matchmaking, which failed miserably. Everything was just not working, essentially. And these were businesses that she bought the LLC for, made websites for, tried to learn on the internet how to sell services for. And I just noticed that the only reason anyone would buy her terrible chili was because she would make them laugh. I mean, she would stand in front of them and she would make them laugh. And I remember one day I had been watching some Seinfeld clip and had grown up watching comedy and said, "Mom, you should be a stand-up comedian." And she looked at me and said, "That's not a job." And I was like, "No, in America, people get paid to make other people laugh." And she was so confused because to her, the jobs available were to be an engineer, a lawyer,

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