As a professional comedy journalist of more than two decades, Julie Seabaugh has contributed to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, GQ, The Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, and numerous other titles. Her coverage of modern roasting culminated in 2018 book Ringside at Roast Battle and her love of Mitch Hedberg led to producing/hosting 2020’s Hope on Top: A Mitch Hedberg Oral History for SiriusXM. With Emmy-nominated filmmaker Nick Scown she co-directed September 2021 feature documentary Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 for Vice. 2022’s 50 Years of the Comedy Store six-LP vinyl box set features her liner notes; her Positive Connections: A Brody Stevens Oral History debuted on SiriusXM in February 2023. The book collection A Tight 20: Two Decades of Comedy Journalism is available now.