Aparna Nancherla’s desire to “contextualize” her mental health struggles is what prompted her to examine them through comedy in the first place.
What baffles Nancherla is corporations cashing in on this sort of thing. In her new book, “Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome,” the comedian, 41, reflects on how “against all odds, anxiety and depression became the popular girls, via several VC-backed makeovers that threw off their glasses, de-frizzed their hair, and erased their pores.”“It’s a bit surreal. I think once any topic gets commodified or swallowed up by the market, it does kind of distort the meaning of it.
Then in a special released as a 2018 episode of Netflix’s “The Standups,” Nancherla informs the audience, “I also have some depression. I kind of like to do anxiety for the week, depression on the weekends. They both have custody.” in 2019, “imagine how i feel.” Wedged next to observational jokes on acting classes in Los Angeles or the terror of waking up from a nap, the mental health bits come across as just that — a bit of her story.Though she also acts and has previously written for shows such as “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell,” Nancherla is known most for her material on mental health.
Nancherla rejects the notion that there is any one way to represent “a whole group of people who aren’t a monolith.” She compares the weight of being a “spokesperson” for people with depression and anxiety with how entertainers from underrepresented racial backgrounds are often expected to represent their entire communities. She never really felt “like a good example of a South Asian celebrity,” either.
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