Biography

Mike Sacks has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, McSweeney’s, Radar, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, Believer, Vice, Maxim, Women’s Health, and Salon. He has worked at The Washington Post, and is currently on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair.

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

The book was positively reviewed in Entertainment Weekly, GQ, Time, Vanity Fair, The Week, Publisher’s Weekly (starred), Maxim, Esquire, The New York Post, Page Six, Cindy Adams, Funny or Die, College Humor, Newsweek, USAToday.com, Chicago Tribune, The Sound of Young America, Chicago Public Radio, NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon and XM “Radio West.”