Funny Business
This article originally appeared in Good Company?s print issue #3. Read more from ?The Money Issue? ? available now! Comedian, writer, and actress Aparna Nancherla finds stability and builds community?onstage and off. Interview by Grace Bonney | Photography by Joyce Kim | Styling by Natalie Toren | Hair by Taylor Tanaka | Makeup by Afton Williams […]
This article originally appeared in Good Company?s print issue #3. Read more from ?The Money Issue? ? available now!
Comedian, writer, and actress Aparna Nancherla finds stability and builds community?onstage and off.
Interview by Grace Bonney | Photography by Joyce Kim | Styling by Natalie Toren | Hair by Taylor Tanaka | Makeup by Afton Williams
?Listen, I?d love to stop and chat,
but I have crippling social anxiety.?
?Wherever my depression is right
now, I hope it?s happy.?
?Isn?t therapy just a podcast off
the record"?
One-liners like these are precisely why comedian Aparna Nancherla?s sense of humor is so instantly relatable and beloved. Her distinctive blend of dry, slightly absurd, and thoroughly honest humor taps into our society?s collective well of anxiety and depression. What Nancherla is able to do that so many of us struggle with is to give a voice (and some lightness) to our shared struggles with mental health.
And while the cliché of the slightly neurotic, overthinking comedian is nothing new, there is something different about these conversations and stories in the hands of Na...
This article originally appeared in Good Company?s print issue #3. Read more from ?The Money Issue? ? available now!
Comedian, writer, and actress Aparna Nancherla finds stability and builds community?onstage and off.
Interview by Grace Bonney | Photography by Joyce Kim | Styling by Natalie Toren | Hair by Taylor Tanaka | Makeup by Afton Williams
?Listen, I?d love to stop and chat,
but I have crippling social anxiety.?
?Wherever my depression is right
now, I hope it?s happy.?
?Isn?t therapy just a podcast off
the record"?
One-liners like these are precisely why comedian Aparna Nancherla?s sense of humor is so instantly relatable and beloved. Her distinctive blend of dry, slightly absurd, and thoroughly honest humor taps into our society?s collective well of anxiety and depression. What Nancherla is able to do that so many of us struggle with is to give a voice (and some lightness) to our shared struggles with mental health.
And while the cliché of the slightly neurotic, overthinking comedian is nothing new, there is something different about these conversations and stories in the hands of Na...
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