NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the comedian Aparna Nancherla about her first full-length comedy special, Hopeful Potato, and the anxiety and depression that once kept her off stage.

Aparna Nancherla’s comedy career spans almost two decades. She started in standup, has written for shows like Mythic Quest and Late Night with Seth Meyers, and acted in shows like Search Party, ...

A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: Aparna Nancherla seems to me like someone living between two impulses. One of them pulls her to stand on a stage and tell jokes and take up space and stand ...

What makes you anxious? What sets you on edge? What insidious worry is perpetually itching the back of your mind? Regardless of how you experience anxiety, you are not alone in your suffering. Anxiety ...

There has long been a stigma around openly discussing mental illness, but that has started to shift over the past decade, partly thanks to the work of Maria Bamford, Gary Gulman, and Aparna Nancherla, ...

Every week, a guest draws a card from NPR's Wild Card deck and answers a big question about their life. Comedian Aparna Nancherla has long lived with anxiety. That's something she shares with many ...

An exciting Sunday for Aparna Nancherla is a Sunday without much excitement. “My cortisol runs high without anything ...

Aparna Nancherla is different from what you expect from most comedians. You might expect them to be the loudest person in the room, someone who is always looking for laughs but instead, Nancherla is ...

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 ...