After debuting Give Them Vagina at last year’s Capital Fringe — wait, how did DCist miss that one? — Vijai Nathan returns to her roots in 2011 with Good Girls Don’t, But Indian Girls Do. The show makes for a funny hour and it should: Nathan is a professional comedian and storyteller and not exactly taking a risk with new material. She’s been performing Good Girls Don’t since 2001 in D.C. and across the country, winning several accolades for her comedic work over the last decade.

With first-person storytelling, you can’t help but wonder what’s fact and how much is embellished for artistic license (or at least misremembered). I’m distracted by Nathan recalling her childhood acting debut in a school play where she plays the role of Martin Luther King, a role she is pretty sure she got as the only person with dark skin in her class. Nathan recalls the assassination scene, reciting the famous line, “I have a dream”, but is then shot mid-sentence. One doesn’t need to be a history buff to know that’s not what happened.

Regardless, Nathan engagingly recounts her childhood as the daughter of traditional Indian parents and sister to siblings that were a little more “good” than she was growing up, lacking her sexual curiosity. “Sex is only for the Americans. White girls and prostitutes,” says Nathan in the thick Tamil accent of her mother, a first-generation immigrant. “But somehow,” Nathan back to portraying herself explains, “I had been born with an Indian girl’s body and a white girl’s mind.”

Interestingly, she’s at her funniest after the show is over and she welcomes questions from the audience. Here, she’s just the slightest bit more natural and free-wheeling than in her official act, one in which she is firmly in her zone, hitting lines and earning laughs for jokes she’s told countless times before. Now at Fringe.

Good Girl’s Don’t, But Indian Girls Do has three remaining performances: July 14, 15, and 16. Tickets are available online.