Aparna Nancherla

Aparna Nancherla is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She has had recurring roles on television series including BoJack Horseman and Corporate, and has written for Late Night with Seth Meyers and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Nancherla released her debut comedy album, Just Putting It Out There, through Tig Notaro's Bentzen Ball Records on July 8, 2016. She was born in Washington, D.C. into an Indian Telugu Hindu family, attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia, and studied psychology at Amherst College, graduating in 2005.

After college, Nancherla returned to Washington, D.C. to begin her stand-up career, then moved to Los Angeles and later to New York City to write for Totally Biased until its cancellation in 2013, before becoming a staff writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers in 2015. Variety named her to its list of "Top 10 Comics to Watch for 2016", and The New York Times said she "has become a comic in demand for her quirky, relatable and punchy humor". In 2017 she played a ramen blogger in Master of None, had a recurring role in the HBO series Crashing, and played Grace in the Comedy Central series Corporate (2017-2020).

Nancherla appeared on the Netflix series The Standups in 2018 and Space Force in 2020, and in December 2025 the comedy streaming service Dropout published her first full-length special, Hopeful Potato. As a voice actor, she voiced BoJack's half-sister Hollyhock in BoJack Horseman from 2017 to 2020, Moon Tobin in the Fox animated series The Great North since 2021, and characters in shows including Steven Universe and Bob's Burgers. In 2023 she published the book Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome.