Julie Seabaugh Talks Marc Maron, Documentaries, and Today's Journalistic Landscape

The producer discusses working with comedian Marc Maron for his Tribeca doc and whether we should all be pivoting out of journalism

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Julie Seabaugh has been in the journalism world for 22 years, writing for the like of Variety and Rolling Stone about the comedy scene. Whether it’s an LA Times piece about why our President shouldn’t be going on comedians’ podcasts or about specific comics themselves, Seabaugh understands the interplay of what makes humor political and vice and versa. “I'm always very much into tracing turning tragedy into comedy,” Seabaugh tells The Film Maven. “I love the dark stuff. It's very vital to me personally and I think society as a whole.”