Aparna Nancherla started out doing comedy in her hometown of Washington DC and now resides in New York City. 2016’s Elle’s Women in Comedy Issue featured her as one of the most exciting new voices to hit the comedy scene. She is a series regular in Comedy Central’s Corporate and has reprised her role in season 3 of HBO’s Crashing. Nancherla is also featured in the second season of Netflix’s The Standups. Other television credits include Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, Netflix’s Master of None and LOVE, HBO’s High Maintenance, Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, appearing as a US correspondent for Dave’s (UK) Unspun with Matt Forde, and Hulu’s I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman. She is&nbs
Aparna Nancherla started out doing comedy in her hometown of Washington DC and now resides in New York City. 2016’s Elle’s Women in Comedy Issue featured her as one of the most exciting new voices to hit the comedy scene. She is a series regular in Comedy Central’s Corporate and has reprised her role in season 3 of HBO’s Crashing. Nancherla is also featured in the second season of Netflix’s The Standups. Other television credits include Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, Netflix’s Master of None and LOVE, HBO’s High Maintenance, Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, appearing as a US correspondent for Dave’s (UK) Unspun with Matt Forde, and Hulu’s I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman. She is the voice of Meena on Mira, Royal Detective, Hollyhock on BoJack Horseman, and Moon on The Great North.
In 2018 she made her feature debut in the Paul Feig movie A Simple Favor. Her TV stand-up appearances include Seeso’s stand-up series Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, season 2 of Comedy Central’s Meltdown as well as Adam Devine’s House Party. In 2013, she made her late-night stand-up debut on TBS’s Conan and was one of the breakout New Faces at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. Her TV writing credits include Late Night with Seth Meyers as well as being a regular correspondent/writer on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.
Nancherla is also an alumna of the NBC Stand Up for Diversity program and currently headlines throughout the world and has been seen at a number of festivals, including Comedy Central’s Clusterfest, Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Moontower, SF Sketchfest, DC’s Bentzen Ball, Outside Lands, Bonnaroo and Dublin’s Vodaphone Comedy Festival. Nancherla has been featured on and in NPR, Reader’s Digest, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post Magazine, XM Radio, and Slate V.
