Sharon Horgan

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Sharon Horgan (The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, Bad Sisters, Catastrophe) is an Emmy Award-nominated actor, writer, and producer. Sharon joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being one of three middle children, growing up with a tough publican father that went into the turkey trade, and an early approach by a famous director in a café to audition for one of his films. Sharon and Dax talk about having great recall for lines but basically no other information, the joy-filled buzz of her first time taking something from the page to the screen, and the sometimes tricky transition from set life back to home life. Sharon explains the unexpected rewards that can come from going in a different direction than originally intended, hitting the chemistry lottery and winning a Peabody for Bad Sisters, and the big swings taken in The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and add free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.4	I'm Dan Horgan and I'm joined by Monica Sharon.
0:19.2	Hello.
0:20.0	Hello.
0:21.3	I sure hope people are as obsessed with Sharon as I am.
0:24.1	When I saw Bad Sisters, I was like, this person intrigues me to no end.
0:30.4	Yeah.
0:31.0	And then only to find out she had created the show and wrote on it.
0:33.9	Amazing.
0:34.7	It is incredible.
0:36.1	Sharon Horgan is an Emmy nominated actor, writer, director, and producer, Bad Sisters,
0:41.3	Catastrophe, Motherland, together This Way Up.
0:45.6	And she's in the new limited series on Hulu, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.
0:51.7	Yes, if you listen to that episode, you will have heard about Sharon as well. We've never interviewed someone who's created this many TV shows, and we've interviewed some famous showrunners. Hmm, that's true. She's the most prolific. Oh, we did have Shonda. All right. They're both great women. They're both great women. We love women. We don't need to make them compete. We're not pitting a woman against another woman. We don't need to body shame anyone.
1:14.0	That's right. We're not doing it.
1:15.1	Please enjoy Sharon Horgan.
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