Director, producer, and author Julie Seabaugh chronicles the world of stand-up comedy. She directed September 2021 feature documentary Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 and is creator/producer of Are We Good?, a SXSW and Tribeca documentary about Marc Maron now on Criterion. A documentary on Mitch Hedberg premieres in 2027.

SiriusXM originals Hope on Top: A Mitch Hedberg Oral History (Comedy Central) and Positive Connections: A Brody Stevens Oral History (RawDog) stream on the SXM app.

As a journalist of 20+ years, Seabaugh covered the art form for The New York Times, The LA Times, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, GQ, The A.V. Club, and more. Her expertise on modern roasting culminated in Ringside at Roast Battle, while 50 Years of the Comedy Store’s vinyl boxed set features her liner notes. The collection A Tight 20: Two Decades of Comedy Journalism is available now. Comedian memoir The Hardest Part of Schizophrenia Is Spelling Schizophrenia, with Byron Bowers, is out from Hachette/Grand Central in October 2026.