S4 EP6: Sharon Horgan on the sadness of comedy, living in squats and FaceTiming Bono

The Louis Theroux Podcast

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Comedy, Society & Culture, Arts

4.3 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Louis sits down in the Spotify studio with Irish actor, writer, and director Sharon Horgan. Sharon discusses her colourful years squatting in London, the fine line between comedy and tragedy, and FaceTiming with Bono while filming Bad Sisters 2. She also spills the beans about almost starring in a Woody Allen film… Warnings: Strong language. ⁠Links/Attachments: TV Show: ‘Bad Sisters’ (2022-2025) - AppleTV+ https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/bad-sisters/umc.cmc.14kr4vv65unannh7doqgvlh20 Film: Home Alone (1990) https://youtu.be/jEDaVHmw7r4?si=rfeHfnepM2T1YCCQ TV Show: ‘Catastrophe’ (2015-2019) - Channel 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sKQ6ilBGGE TV Show: ‘Pulling’ (2006-2009) - BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgHKlCM-7Wk&t=4s TV Show: ‘Modern Love’ (2019) - Amazon https://youtu.be/2zSuD79TU3w?si=opqU542-inqGMY_d&t=244 Short Film: The Week Before Christmas (2012) - Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueKfgCrFuek TV Show: ‘Divorce’ (2016-2019) - HBO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGadA8rJBek TV Show: ‘The Larry Sanders Show’ (1992-1998) - HBO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG1YlnrQAnM TV Show: ‘The Pilot Show’ (2004) - Channel 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MueLNwbFWEU ‘Woody Allen warns against ‘witch hunt’ post-Weinstein' - Variety https://variety.com/2017/film/news/woody-allen-harvey-weinstein-1202590319/ Film: Husbands and Wives (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2daA2-OwXbE Film: Housewife of the Year (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0OGXGAHaWs TV Show: ‘Motherland’ (2016-2022) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p05j1jkp/motherland TV Show: ‘Amandaland’ (2025) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0024pyy/amandaland Credits: Producer: Millie Chu  Assistant Producer: Emilia Gill Production Manager: Francesca Bassett  Music: Miguel D’Oliveira  Audio Mixer: Tom Guest Video Mixer: Scott Edwards Shownotes compiled by Maisie Williams Executive Producer: Arron Fellows     A Mindhouse Production for Spotify  www.mindhouse.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	One two, one. Ready? Mic number one.
0:07.6	Hello, Louis Thruh here. Welcome back to my podcast called The Louis Thruh
0:11.8	podcast. Today I'm joined by award-winning Irish actor, writer and producer Sharon Hogan.
0:28.1	Okay. and producer Sharon Hogan. Sharon came to comedy writing in her mid-30s when after working various odd jobs, including six years in a job centre in Kilburn. She teamed up with writer Dennis
0:33.7	Kelly to create Pulling, a comedy about three single women in London, which aired on BBC 3 in 2006.
0:40.6	Her next big hit was in 2014 with Catastrophe, which she co-wrote with American comedian Rob Delaney.
0:46.8	A critically acclaimed comedy, I'm sure you saw it, about a couple navigating an unexpected pregnancy.
0:53.4	Off the back of her success in the UK, Sharon went to the US to write an executive-produced
0:57.5	divorce for HBO starring Sarah Jessica Parker, fresh off the back of Sex in the City,
1:04.7	and Thomas Hayden Church from Wings.
1:08.0	You may not have seen that.
1:09.3	That's a more obscure TV offering. There's more about
1:12.5	my obsession with 90s American sitcom in the chat. More recently, Sharon has been working on the
1:17.3	second series of her show, Bad Sisters for Apple TV Plus. How would I describe it? It's prestige
1:23.6	TV. You can see there's a lot of money on the screen. It follows five sisters and their
1:29.0	criminal enterprise in which one of them has a horrible husband, so they want to off him. That's
1:36.1	not a spoiler. That's all part of the setup. I think it's fair to say. And it is slightly
1:42.6	macabre and also kind of recognizably taking place in the real world.
1:48.5	And the five of them, the five sisters have a beautiful chemistry between them.
1:52.6	One of them called Beebe, where's an eye patch?
1:55.6	I mention that because she comes up in the chat, and I don't think I explained who she was.
1:59.7	The youngest of the sisters is
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