Ambika Mod knows a thing or two about timing. She is a comedian, after all. But “right time, right place” is something of a running theme in her career thus far. (That and a lot of hard work, that is.

If timing is everything in a comedic delivery, then HBO’s U.S. Comedy Festival in Aspen could use some work. An old lament – that the festival fills up the resort when it would probably be filled with ...