Day: September 24, 2015

Aparna Nancherla has performed stand-up on Conan, @midnight and Last Comic Standing, and previously worked as a writer and performer on FX/FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Nancherla recently started a new gig as a monologue writer for another late-night TV talk show, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Nancherla told me what her first day at the new gig was like, how her upbringing outside of Washington, D.C., prepared her for a comedy career, attending open mics before she ever performed at one, the success of her fellow former improvisers in D.C., and whether she considers herself inside or outside...