Comedy is not an easy business. Ask Daizy Maan. For the last two weeks, the Melbourne-based writer-comedian has been travelling across the length of the country. “It has been great. We opened in Mumbai, and it was my first-time doing comedy in the city. It was quite fun discovering the jokes that land, and why they work,” she admits. Maan has been to India before though. Born and raised in Melbourne, amidst a conservative Punjabi family, the journey to become a comedian forms the basis of her show, Brown Women Comedy. With the final leg in Mumbai wrapping up with a show in Khar on January 16, the producer talks us through her journey.

Comedy was not high on the 31-year old’s plans. “I did not start taking comedy seriously till about five years ago. Even then, the first two years were spent producing shows,” she admits. But living in Melbourne, the art was an inevitable part of her experience with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.