- Hey, I'm Aparna Nancherla
and it's time for Ask a Comedian, where I answer questions
from Netflix fans about everything and anything.
(upbeat music)
All right, so these are actual real questions that you guys
thought I might be equipped to answer as a comedian.
I hope I get to give advice, especially advice
that I am totally unqualified for.
(upbeat music)
I believe a quirky best friend on a sitcom about
two white women.
Can you even imagine how groundbreaking that
was for me?
I did not get the part.
Can you believe it?
(upbeat music)
Maybe to remind them
of their mother's milk, is that too creepy?
It feels like I said it and now I can't take it back.
(upbeat music)
The perfect weekend.
Well, he is an artist.
He only spells it with two E's because that is why
he is perfect.
(upbeat music)
I will say probably one fifth of my act
falls into this category.
I do like writing sometimes just nonsequitors
that don't really fit into the rest of my material.
Like, for awhile, I was just doing this line
that was, "What if snakes had butts?"
And then that was all it was. So sometimes, you know,
people were there for the ride and other times they did not
care for the image.
(upbeat music)
I actually did not accumulate plants
over the past year, I offloaded a plant and gained
two cats.
(cat meows)
Plant had to leave for her own safety.
(upbeat music)
I get pretty nervous,
so I can't really eat a lot before I perform.
So, at most, I'm having probably, like, tea
and a cough drop, which sounds very, you know, Hollywood.
But then afterwards, if I get through it, you know,
I just feast like a medieval king.
So it's really-- before is not that exciting for me.
(upbeat music)
I think the show I would want to write for
doesn't exist yet,
but it would just be
a show called "Drama!" - exclamation point.
And the entire show would just be people dramatically
entering and exiting rooms saying things like,
"Well, well, well, we meet again,"
or "Huh, you thought you knew."
(upbeat music)
I have constant stage fright. I feel like I have
stage fright right now. I just have life fright.
I have it all the time.
And I think the thing I do is remind myself
that whatever I'm doing is about to be fun.
And even if it is not fun, I will have a story out of it.
(upbeat music)
I think it would be a dream to tour with someone
like Maria Bamford, who I just looked up to for so long.
But ideally, if I could, I would tour with someone who also
has an animal because then I could also partake
in that animal.
(upbeat music)
I think one of the first comedy things I made
when I was really little,
my cousins and I,
we made, like, a VHS Bollywood film at home.
And that was probably my first foray into comedy.
And we even had product placement.
I think we, like, featured soda.
I think it was primarily product placement.
I mean, I think my parents did not even watch it in its
entirety, and then probably had the tape destroyed.
This has been Ask a Comedian. I'm Aparna Nancherla.
I hope these answers changed your life.