How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Aparna Nancherla

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An exciting Sunday for Aparna Nancherla is a Sunday without much excitement.“My cortisol runs high without anything happening, so I’m trying to get it down,” she says.Eliminating stress was part of the reason the comedian moved back to Los Angeles in 2023, after over a decade in New York City, where she wrote for “Late Night With Seth Meyers” and “Totally Biased With W.

Kamau Bell,” appeared in TV series like “Search Party” and burnished her stand-up comedy career.In Sunday Funday, L.A.people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town.

Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.“I’m a little bit of a hermit, and just wanted some more trees and a little more space,” Nancherla says.Nancherla’s book of essays, “Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself and Impostor Syndrome” was also released in 2023.In it, she examined her emotionally fraught relationship with stand-up.

After a break, she recently brought her understated approach back to the form and her new special, “Hopeful Potato,” is available on the comedy streaming service Dropout starting Dec.15.She likes to spend her Sundays mostly engaging in familiar routines, though she’ll pursue a little bit of discovery around town.This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.10 a.m.: Late riserI would like to be someone who wakes up around 7 to 8 a.m., but I am waking up probably in the 9 to 10 a.m.

vicinity.I would wake earlier, but I think in a past life I was a two-toed sloth or something because I’m nocturnal and I move very slowly.

It takes me a lot of time to ease into a different state of being — sleep to wake, wake to sleep.Pretty much any transition I’m bad with.Being a stand-up doesn’t help.

A lot of my job is oriented toward night, but even before comedy, something about the night called to me.It’s not ...