"An exciting Sunday for Aparna Nancherla is a Sunday without much excitement. "My cortisol runs high without anything happening, so I'm trying to get it down," she says. Eliminating stress was part of the reason the comedian moved back to Los Angeles in 2023, after over a decade in New York City, where she wrote for "Late Night With Seth Meyers" and "Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell," appeared in TV series like "Search Party" and burnished her stand-up comedy career."
""I'm a little bit of a hermit, and just wanted some more trees and a little more space," Nancherla says. Nancherla's book of essays, "Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself and Impostor Syndrome" was also released in 2023. In it, she examined her emotionally fraught relationship with stand-up. After a break, she recently brought her understated approach back to the form and her new special, "Hopeful Potato," is available on the comedy streaming service Dropout starting Dec. 15."
Aparna Nancherla moved back to Los Angeles in 2023 to reduce stress after more than a decade in New York City writing for Late Night With Seth Meyers and Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell and appearing on Search Party while developing her stand-up career. Her essay collection, Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself and Impostor Syndrome, was released in 2023 and examines an emotionally fraught relationship with stand-up. A new special, Hopeful Potato, debuts on Dropout on Dec. 15. Nancherla prefers quiet Sundays filled with familiar rituals, describes herself as nocturnal and a late riser, and works to lower chronically high cortisol.
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