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Comedian Aparna Nancherla On Finding The Funny In Depression

Vermont Public | By Annie Russell
Published October 21, 2016 at 6:13 PM EDT
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Comedian Aparna Nacherla is performing Friday, Oct. 21 and Saturday, Oct.22 at Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.

Can jokes about depression and anxiety be funny? Aparna Nancherla thinks so.

A writer and comedian based in New York, Nancherla is performing Friday, Oct. 21 and Saturday, Oct. 22 at Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.

Listen above to Nancherla's full interview with VPR's Annie Russell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxFs_9wPwKE

"Entering Your Dirty Thirties with Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone" from Nancherla's web series "Womanhood"

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Annie Russell
Annie Russell was VPR's Deputy News Director. She came to VPR from NPR's Weekends on All Things Considered and WNYC's On The Media. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School.
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