Mike Sacks

Mike Sacks is an American author, humor writer, and magazine editor based in New York City. Sacks is currently an editor at Vanity Fair and formerly worked for The Washington Post.[1][2] He contributes to The New Yorker as well as other publications. He has written nine books.

Mike Sacks
BornVirginia
Alma materTulane University
GenreHumor
Notable worksAnd Here's The Kicker,
Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason
Website
mikesacks.com

Early life

Sacks was born in Virginia and raised in Maryland. He attended Winston Churchill High School before attending Tulane University in New Orleans.[3][4]

Career

Sacks contributes to the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Esquire, Salon, Vanity Fair, GQ, Believer, Vice, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Sacks' collection of humorous photos of television shows has been featured on NPR and Gawker.[14][15] He has also been featured in The New York Post, Vanity Fair, and LA Weekly, and has appeared on BBC, CNN and NPR's Weekend Edition.[16][17][18][19][20][21]

Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason

In 2010, Sacks published Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason, which contains short humor pieces from The New Yorker, Esquire, Time, Vanity Fair, McSweeney's, and other publications.

And Here's The Kicker

Sacks’ first book, And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Humor Writers About Their Craft, was released in Summer 2009. Some of those interviewed for the book were George Meyer, Harold Ramis, Al Jaffee, Buck Henry, Bob Odenkirk, Stephen Merchant, David Sedaris, Jack Handey, Robert Smigel, and Daniel Clowes.[22]

Poking a Dead Frog

Poking A Dead Frog was published in June 2014 and was a New York Times Bestseller. Some of those interviewed for the book were James Downey, Terry Jones, Mike Schur, James L. Brooks, Peg Lynch, Adam McKay, Marc Maron, George Saunders, Amy Poehler, Patton Oswalt, Daniel Clowes, and others.

Stinker Lets Loose!

Mike Sacks is the publisher of the re-release of the novelization to the 1977 trucking and CB movie Stinker Lets Loose!  He also wrote the foreword. In addition, he put out an audiobook starring Jon Hamm, Rhea Seehorn, Paul F Tompkins, Andy Richter, Philip Baker Hall, and others. It made Vulture's list of the Top 10 Humor Books of 2017.

Randy: The Full and Complete Unedited Biography and Memoir of the Amazing Life and Times of Randy S.!

This book is purported to be a self-published memoir found by Mike Sacks at a garage sale and re-published "as is." In 2019, it was released as an audio memoir via Stitcher Premium. It made Vulture's list of the Top 10 Humor Books of 2019. He put out an audio version on Stitcher Premium in 2017 staring Dave Willis, and produced by Rob Schulte.

Passable In Pink

Sacks, with director Eric Martin, adapted this novelization into a fully-immersive cinematic audio experience starring Gillian Jacobs, Adam Scott, Bobby Moynihan, Bob Odenkirk, Laraine Newman, Julie Klausner, Judd Nelson. Rhea Seehorn, James Adomian, Justine Bateman, and many others.  It made Vulture's list of the Top 10 Humor Books of 2018.

Slouchers

The novelization to the 1992 Gen X movie "Slouchers.” It made Vulture's list of the Top 10 Humor Books of 2020.

PASSING ON THE RIGHT: THE SKIPPY "BATTY" BATTISON STORY

Sacks created a fake memoir from a mediocre comedian and podcaster called Passing on the Right: The Batty Battison Story. Skippy ends up involved with the January 6th insurrection. The book became an Amazon Top Seller and made Vulture's list of the Top 5 Humor Books of 2022.

Let's Do This Shit!

Sacks created a digital-only humor book about his negative experience working with PR person promoting Passing on the Right, it became an Amazon Best Seller.

Other Writing

Sacks co-wrote Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk, with the Pleasure Syndicate, a comedy-writing group consisting of Scott Jacobson (Daily Show, Bob’s Burgers), Todd Levin (Conan), Jason Roeder (Onion), and Ted Travelstead (Vanity Fair). The book was released August 28, 2010.[23] In February 2011, Sacks authored a collection of humor pieces that were published by Tin House Books.

Sacks is also the co-editor of the March 2012 advice book, Care to Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?, featuring contributions from, among others, Louis C.K., Dave Eggers, Zach Galifianakis, Nick Hornby, Sam Lipsyte, Merrill Markoe, Laraine Newman, Simon Rich, Bob Saget, George Saunders, Amy Sedaris, Allison Silverman, Paul Simms, Jerry Stahl, Fred Willard, and Weird Al Yankovic.[24] He has also contributed to the books Esquire Rules and Esquire Presents: Things A Man Shouldn’t Do After the Age of Thirty; Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists; and The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals.[25][26]

Doin' It with Mike Sacks

Sacks's podcast began airing in January 2016. The show consists of interviews, comedy bits, and bootleg audio clips. Guests include: David Sedaris, Julie Klausner, Ben Schwartz, Jack Handey, Danny McBride, Rhea Seehorn, and George Saunders.

References
  1. Mike Sacks in VF
  2. Kuntzman, Gersh (10 March 2011). "Checkin' in with … comedy writer Mike Sacks". The Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  3. Belford, Susan (July 24, 2014). "Dissecting Comedy". Potomac Almanac.
  4. Stout, Andrew. "An Interview with Mike Sacks". Bookslut.com.
  5. Mike Sacks and Bob Powers. "Just A Friendly Robocall". The New Yorker.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  6. Mike Sacks and Teddy Wayne. "Condo President-For-Life". McSweeney’s.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  7. sacks, Mike. "Ikea Instructions". Esquire.
  8. Mike Sacks and Scott Rothman. "Dear Thomas Pynchon, can you blurb my book?". Salon.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  9. Sacks, Mike. "The Founding Farter". Vanity Fair.
  10. Mike Sacks and Ted Travelstead. "Timeline: Justin Bieber's Life for the Next 35 Years". GQ.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  11. Sacks, Mike. "102 Self-Help Books You Can Do Without". radar.
  12. Sacks, Mike. "Interview with Tim and Eric". Believer.
  13. Sacks, Mike. "Two Stories". Vice.
  14. Chillag, Ian. "'Photos of TV':It's Photos of TV". NPR.
  15. Douglas, Nick. "Photos of TV". Gawker. Archived from the original on 2014-03-22.
  16. Estes, Lenora Jane. "Mike Sack Reads From Your Wildest Dreams, With Reason". Vanity Fair.
  17. Kuntzman, Gersh. "Checkin' in with...Comedy Writer Mike Sacks". New York Post.
  18. Molyneaux, Libby. "Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy:Mike Sacks". LA Weekly.
  19. "The Comedy Cafe". BBC.
  20. "Comics Confess Their Nightmares". CNN.
  21. Simon, Scott. "Comedy Writing:How To Be Funny". NPR Weekend Edition.
  22. Sacks, Mike (July 8, 2009). And Here's The Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers. Writers Digest Books. ISBN 978-1-58297-505-4.
  23. Sacks, Mike (August 24, 2010). Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk. Broadway. ISBN 978-0-307-59216-3.
  24. Believer (March 6, 2012). Care to Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice. Vintage. ISBN 978-0307743718.
  25. Esquire, ed. (May 3, 2011). Esquire The Rules: A Man's Guide to Life. Heart. ISBN 978-1588168818.
  26. McSweeney's, ed. (September 12, 2006). Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists. Vintage. ISBN 978-0307277206.
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