On Writing Comedy with April Shih & Tripper Clancy

Austin Film Festival's On Story

This week on On Story we’ll hear from screenwriter April Shih who has worked on shows like Dave, You’re The Worst, and This is America and Tripper Clancy who wrote the script for 2019’s Stuber, and has worked on Netflix’s I Am Not Okay With This.

April Shih is a screenwriter and producer, known for You're the Worst, Mrs. America,starring Cate Blanchett and most recently served as supervising producer on FX’s Dave, which follows the semi-autobiographical story of American rapper Lil Dicky. April has also produced several films and plays including the Ovation Award-winning revival of Kiss of the Spiderwoman: The Musical.

Tripper Clancy is a screenwriter known for writing the scripts for Stuber which starred Kumali Nanjiani and Dave Bautista as well as Die Hart starring Kevin Hart and John Travolta. After working in the Fox Writers Studio in 2011, Tripper went on to write comedies and dramas of all shapes and sizes for Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Amazon, and is currently a writer on season one of I Am Not Okay With This, a half-hour show for Netflix.

Moderator Harrison Glaser spoke with the pair about their journeys as writers at the Austin Film Festival.

Clips of Dave courtesy of FX Productions, LLC.

Clips of You’re The Worst courtesy of Bluebush Productions, LLC.

Clips of I Am Not Okay With This courtesy of Netflix Studios, LLC.

Clips of Stuber courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.