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

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]

Washington Post.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] As of 2022, Sacks has published a total of ten books, six of which have been under his own imprint.[12]

Sacks' collection of humorous photos of television shows has been featured on

The New York Post, Vanity Fair, and LA Weekly, and has appeared on BBC, CNN and NPR's Weekend Edition.[15][16][17][18][19]

In 2017, Sacks created a vanity press imprint dubbed "Sunshine Beam Publishing" which he created "primarily to publish stuff no one else would publish."[12][20]

Episodes of the podcast, Doin' It with Mike Sacks... and Rob!, have been produced since January 2016.[citation needed]

Early life

Sacks was born in

Winston Churchill High School before attending Tulane University in New Orleans.[21][22]

Books

Other work

Some of Sacks' works were originally, or have been adapted into, audiobooks.[12] The audiobook version of Stinker Lets Loose featured Jon Hamm, Andy Richter and Phillip Baker Hall.[12] Passable in Pink was an audiobook satire of John Hughes' filmography, and featured Gillian Jacobs, Adam Scott and Bobby Moynihan.[23]

At The New Yorker in 2021, Sacks interviewed Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder. This was Swartzwelder's first major interview.[24]

Critical reception

Sacks is popular with some comedians, including David Sedaris[25] and Andy Richter.[26] Critics tend to appreciate his work, while the general public can be left confused.

This is evident in the reception of Sacks' two interview anthologies, Poking a Dead Frog and Here's the Kicker. While some critics saw and appreciated the interviews as a reflection on working in the industry, many readers expected a manual on how to make it as a comedian.[27][28][29][30][31]Dead Frog was also criticized for a lack of diversity: 7 of 44 interviews were with women.[28]

His early work[32] and works published under his own imprint have received both praise[33] and critique.[34]

References

  1. ^ "Mike Sacks Archive at Vanity Fair". Vanity Fair.
  2. ^ Kuntzman, Gersh (7 March 2011). "Checkin' in with… Comedy Writer Mike Sacks". New York Post.
  3. ^ Sacks, Mike; Powers, Bob (9 August 2012). "Just A Friendly Robocall". The New Yorker.
  4. ^ Sacks, Mike; Teddy, Wayne. "Condo President-For-Life". McSweeney’s.
  5. ^ Sacks, Mike. "Ikea Instructions". Esquire.
  6. ^ Mike Sacks; Scott Rothman (26 February 2011). "Dear Thomas Pynchon, can you blurb my book?". Salon.
  7. ^ Sacks, Mike (8 February 2013). "The Founding Farter". Vanity Fair.
  8. ^ Sacks, Mike; Travelstead, Ted (30 January 2014). "Timeline: Justin Bieber's Life for the Next 35 Years". GQ.
  9. ^ Sacks, Mike. "102 Self-Help Books You Can Do Without". radar.
  10. ^ Sacks, Mike. "Interview with Tim and Eric". Believer.
  11. ^ Sacks, Mike (2 December 2008). "Two Stories". Vice.
  12. ^ a b c d Dan, Bova (February 14, 2018). "How This Writer Embraced the F--- It Mentality and Turned a Crazy Idea Into a Project Starring Jon Hamm". Entrepreneur.
  13. ^ Chillag, Ian (4 January 2010). "'Photos of TV':It's Photos of TV". NPR.
  14. ^ Douglas, Nick. "Photos of TV". Gawker. Archived from the original on 2014-03-22.
  15. ^ Estes, Lenora Jane (March 1, 2011). "Mike Sack Reads From Your Wildest Dreams, With Reason". Vanity Fair.
  16. ^ Molyneaux, Libby (April 28, 2011). "Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy:Mike Sacks". LA Weekly.
  17. ^ "The Comedy Cafe". BBC.
  18. ^ "Comics Confess Their Nightmares". CNN. October 21, 2009.
  19. ^ Simon, Scott (August 1, 2009). "Comedy Writing:How To Be Funny". NPR Weekend Edition.
  20. ^ Alex, Norcia (September 13, 2018). "The Year's Best Memoir Is About a Man Who Shot a Porno in a Baskin-Robbins". Vice.
  21. ^ Belford, Susan (July 24, 2014). "Dissecting Comedy". Potomac Almanac.
  22. ^ Stout, Andrew. "An Interview with Mike Sacks". Bookslut.com. Archived from the original on May 10, 2012.
  23. ^ "This Week in Comedy Podcasts: The Star-Studded Passable in Pink". Vulture. 14 Nov 2019. Retrieved 15 Nov 2022.
  24. ^ Blistein, Jon (2021-05-03). "Reclusive, Revered 'Simpsons' Writer John Swartzwelder Gives First-Ever Interview". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  25. ^ Goldstein, Ian (2016-06-21). "Mike Sacks Is Doin' It". Vulture. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  26. ^ Nelson, Rebecca (22 Oct 2018). "A writer mined his '80s adolescence in the D.C. suburbs. Then came the Kavanaugh hearings". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 Nov 2022.
  27. ^ "Mike Sacks' 'Poking a Dead Frog' cracks the comedy code". Los Angeles Times. 2014-09-02. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  28. ^ a b Chen, Adrian (2014-07-09). "Who Gets a Place in the Writers' Rooms of TV Comedy?". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  29. ^ "Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks Review". pastemagazine.com. 2014-11-17. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  30. ^ "Poking a Dead Frog: Mike Sacks on Advice, Writing and TV Comedy's New DIY Attitude". Observer. 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  31. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  32. ^ Oregonian, Special to The (2011-05-21). "'Your Wildest Dreams' review: Mike Sacks has an inconsistent wit". oregonlive. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  33. ^ Boone, Brian (2022-11-01). "The Best Comedy Books of 2022 (So Far)". Vulture. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  34. ^ Kutner, Rob (2018-10-17). "Lives Of Loud Desperation". Book and Film Globe. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
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