Aparna Nancherla: Introvert Goes 'Corporate'

Ask Me Another

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Comedian Aparna Nancherla dishes about interning at NPR, transforming her struggles with mental health into comedy, and working an office job. This episode originally aired March 15, 2019.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:09.4	its NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:13.9	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:18.4	Hey everybody!
0:25.4	Welcome everybody!
0:26.4	Look at this!
0:27.4	This is great!
0:28.4	Welcome to Ask Me Another, the show that is bar trivia for people cleaning their bathroom.
0:35.1	This is exciting!
0:36.1	We have a great show for you, we have four brilliant contestants, they're backstage
0:40.8	right now, worrying about something they said to a co-worker three weeks ago.
0:45.6	But soon they'll be up here to play some nerdy games with us, and one of them will become
0:50.1	our big winner, and we have an amazing special guest, comedian, Aparna Nanchurla, is going
0:55.4	to be here.
0:59.2	Aparna actually came up in the Washington DC improv scene, which I believe is the only
1:04.8	place in Washington DC where you'll hear the words yes and.
1:10.4	I'm going to be talking to her about her career and her comedy.
1:13.6	One of the things I love about her comedy is, I mean it's smart and it's rye, but also
1:19.4	she talks openly about her depression and anxiety in a very thoughtful and hilarious
1:24.7	way.
1:26.5	Anxiety and depression are interesting topics to talk about on stage, but I feel at this
1:30.8	point of the year, right now, in New York, I can no longer tell if I'm depressed, or if
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