The podcast has featured appearances from many notable people in the world of film and TV, including Rian Johnson, David Benioff and D.B.

Weiss (the showrunners of Game of Thrones), Aline Brosh McKenna, Dana Fox, Rachel Bloom, Jennifer Lee, Riki Lindhome, Natasha Leggero, Alec Berg, Kelly Marcel, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Richard Kelly, Chris Nee, Malcolm Spellman, David Wain, and Jason Bateman.

Despite being largely unfamiliar with the medium, Mazin agreed out of a desire to talk about screenwriting without writing about it, as he had been doing for a number of years on his blog, The Artful Writer.

The three-page challenge is a particularly useful segment for screenwriters as it provides sharp insights into unproduced screenplays; lessons easily applied to a writer's own project.

Mazin's participation was suspect for a time, most notably during a six-week stretch that began in August 2012, but since then he has overcome his umbrage-tinted glasses and regularly found something in the world worth praising every week.

The segment debuted in episode 201, when the stories included scandals in FIFA, the Large Hadron Collider, and sexual assault on college campuses.

[11] In line with their personas of Mazin being the lazy one and August being the organized one, plus knowledgeable about technology, Craig mocks John by calling him a robot.

Craig's deep-throated alter ego appears multiple times in the Scriptnotes catalogue; brought on by John's accidental double entendres.

[14] On episode 129, August and Mazin welcomed Final Draft CEO and co-founder Marc Madnick and then-product manager Joe Jarvis.

[16] In response to the episode's controversy, filmmaker and software developer Kent Tessman pointed out that a possible reason many of Madnick's excuses were met with pushback is that, simply, "there might be technical people listening".

[17] As part of Scriptnotes's 2014 Summer Superhero Spectacular live show, August and Mazin played a game with guests Andrea Berloff, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and David S. Goyer.

Martian Manhunter being the last survivor of a race which died out on Mars over a thousand years ago is goofy, but putting him Area 51 and using the same plot as many alien visitor movies is not.

[sic][19]This prompted Michael Cavana from The Washington Post's Comic Riffs to reach out to She-Hulk co-creator Stan Lee for a response.

Lee tells The Post’s Comic Riffs this evening, in response to Goyer’s words: “I know I was looking for a new female superhero, and the idea of an intelligent Hulk-type grabbed me.”[20]During his freshman year at Princeton University, Mazin was roommates with future junior U.S.

If he agreed with me on every issue, I would hate him only one percent less.Mazin's comment was picked up by The Daily Show,[22] The Huffington Post,[23] Texas Monthly,[24] The Telegraph,[25] The Sun Times,[26] and more.

[27][28] Mazin does not hold back on his disdain for Carson Reeves and his Scriptshadow blog, which reviews both professional and amateur scripts, including one of August's rewrites of a possible tentpole movie for 20th Century Fox.

[31] Live events for the podcast have been sponsored by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,[32] the Austin Film Festival,[33] and the Writers Guild Foundation.

[42] In a 2016 interview with The Wall Street Journal, actor and director Elizabeth Banks revealed that Scriptnotes was her favorite podcast.