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VPR's coverage of arts and culture in the region.

Comedian Aparna Nancherla On Finding The Funny In Depression

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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"

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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