“All the children on this technology consider that they will comply with their bliss,” Zarna Garg says within the trailer for her new Hulu particular — earlier than turning heel as all the time: “No! You’ll monetize your distress!”
In “Sensible Folks Win,” Garg is doing simply that; perhaps not with distress precisely, however mining her life for cheeky cultural observations and punchlines as all the time. The one minute trailer for her particular pokes enjoyable at her son, husband, and mother-in-law — which any Zarna fan is aware of is par for the course. As Hulu’s press launch put it, she’s “taking goal at husbands, youngsters, in-laws, and anybody who dares query an Indian mother’s knowledge.”
Garg rose to fame through the early days of COVID-19 lockdown, when she was beginning out as a standup comic and her eldest son started posting clips of it to social media. The clips went viral, and so did she — now at a million followers and relying on each Instagram and TikTok. She commonly excursions with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and has been a visitor on each “Late Night time with Seth Meyers” and “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
“Sensible Folks Win” is Garg’s second taped particular, after 2023’s “One in a Billion” on Prime Video. She lately made her performing debut alongside Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni in Roshan Sethi’s “A Good Indian Boy,” (now obtainable on VOD), which premiered a number of weeks earlier than her first memoir, “This American Girl,” printed by Ballantine Books. Followers of “The Zarna Garg Household Podcast” can even spot the comic’s husband and three kids within the “Sensible Folks Win” trailer, the place they joyfully carry out on stage with a bunch {of professional} dancers.
The particular is directed by Jeff Tomsic and produced by Rotten Science, with Tomsic and Garg serving as government producers. Matthew Vaughan (Rotten Science) and Olivia Gerke & Adam Triplett (3Arts) additionally government produce. It joins Hulu’s rising library of unique standup specials beneath the “Hularious” banner, together with “Atsuko Okatsuka: Father,” “lana Glazer: Human Magic,” “Roy Wooden Jr.: Lonely Flowers,” and extra.
“Zarna Garg: Sensible Folks Win” premieres July 18 on Hulu. Watch the complete trailer under.