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The show in which a comedian comes on to play a clip of one of their jokes and then discusses how they wrote it and how it fits into what they're trying to do with their comedy.

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Vulture Senior Editor Jesse David Fox. Comedy is in therapy, but it does have a similar ability of reframing challenging experiences and feelings in a way that just feels lighter and more manageable.

It also gives people a vocabulary to understand the hard to understand.

So, considering, you know, everything, I wanted to rerun this episode from the great stand-up comedian Aparnan Chala about her joke about anxiety.

The funny thing, as sometimes happens on this show, I remember when she started doing this joke.

Aparna moved to New York from L.A. in late 2012 to work on totally bias with W. Camel Bell.

Around then, I'd see her perform her deeply silly act around Brooklyn.

And then I distinctly remember when her material shifted.

The silliness was still there in parts, but now Aparna was talking about her struggles with depression and anxiety.

This episode is about that breakthrough. How her career in comedy is so connected to her history with mental illness, how her comedy isn't as much about anxiety and depression as people think, and, you know, writing good jokes. The joke you're about to hear is from her debut album, just putting it out there, which came out in 2016, the same year she did her Comedy

Central half-hour special. In 2018, she did a half-hour special for Netflix as The Stand-Ups.

Since this episode came out in August 2018, I just wanted to mention that right now, you can

currently see Aparna every Monday co-hosting a digital version of my favorite weekly New York

stand-up show Butterboy with Joe Firestone

and Maeve Higgins.

So, here is Aparna Non-Charla.

I have a lot of anxiety.

It is a pretty solid part of my life.

And how many, any stress heads in the house tonight?

Yeah.

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