Mike Sacks

Brooklyn

Writer. Vanity Fair/New Yorker mags. From MD/DC/VA. Author 12 books/audio comedies. 3 NY Times best-sellers. Substack. "Doin' It With Mike Sacks" 'cast. Go O's!

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A Leaflet Dropped Over Amy Weller’s House

1 month ago | doinit.substack.com | Mike Sacks

Crazy to think that my first published piece in The New Yorker was 21 years ago this month. I had been pitching to the magazine for years before this was published, and I had come close, but this was the first sale. This was long before the Daily Shouts & Murmurs. My parents, then living, didn’t understand the piece, but they were proud enough to have i…
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1 month ago | doinit.substack.com | Mike Sacks

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An Interview with a Working, Successful Comedy Writer

1 month ago | doinit.substack.com | Mike Sacks

I’ve written two books that contain interviews with comedy writers: “And Here’s the Kicker” and “Poking a Dead Frog.” I also, occasionally, conduct interviews for The New Yorker with comedy writers, such as John Swartzwelder and Mike Judge. I love interviewing writers who are famous and well-known, but I just as much enjoy interviewing those who may not…
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2 months ago | doinit.substack.com | Mike Sacks

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Why My Favorite Character in "The Breakfast Club" Is Now the Janitor

2 months ago | doinit.substack.com | Mike Sacks

It’s difficult to pin down an exact moment when I began to dislike the characters in John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club. There was a time (there’s always a time) when I saw each of them as I wanted to see them:John Bender, with his fingerless, leather gloves as the one I would call at midnight when the rest of my suburban world was sleeping, someone who’d …
This Is How We Love: The Foto-Novel

2 months ago | mcsweeneys.net | Mike Sacks

- - -My latest book is called This Is How We Love: The Foto-Novel. It’s the story behind the worst movie to have ever won the Academy Award. Have you not heard of this movie? Let me tell you about it. But where to begin? Should we begin with the fabled “curse” that afflicted nearly everyone associated with this notorious film, including the gaffers and all three lighting technicians, not to mention the poor thespian pooch, Charlie Boy, the first of two canines to play “Bones the Blind Dog”?
Is North Carolina the canary in the coal mine for American democracy?

2 months ago | contrarian.substack.com | Mike Sacks |Evan Vorpahl

By Mike Sacks and Evan VorpahlWith the help of wealthy out-of-state special interest groups, North Carolina’s Republican-dominated courts are trying to steal a state Supreme Court seat by throwing out as many as 65,000 North Carolinians’ lawfully cast votes. Last November, North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs defeated her Republican challenger, Judge Jefferson Griffin, by 734 votes. Riggs’s win has been confirmed by two recounts and an audit.
E.A. Hanks Knew Her Memoir Would Have to Go There With Her Family

2 months ago | vanityfair.com | Mike Sacks

In March of 2019, 36-year-old Vanity Fair and New York Times contributor E.A. Hanks set off from her hometown of Los Angeles in her beloved 2017 Ford Transit, nicknamed “Minnie,” to recreate a road trip she’d taken with her mother along the transcontinental Interstate 10, from California to Florida, back in 1996. What resulted over these six months make up The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, out this week from Simon & Schuster.
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2 months ago | doinit.substack.com | Mike Sacks

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The Einstein of Photo Comedy Books (Part 1)

Mar 24, 2025 | doinit.substack.com | Mike Sacks

Growing up in the DC area (now referred to, cleverly, as DMV: DC/Maryland/Virginia), there were few places to head (this was pre-internet) to find the work of like-minded humor and pop culture obsessives. I mean, very few places. There was, of course, John Waters, but the rest of the local comedy scene leaned more towards PBS and Kennedy Center-inspired …

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10 Jun 25

Idea for a sci-fi novel. They’re humans but they live and love somewhere in the galaxy. SUPER excited!!!

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10 Jun 25

Terrific piece by @emilynussbaum

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In 1951, Gertrude Berg, the creator behind “The Goldbergs,” won an Emmy and was poised to become one of TV’s greatest luminaries. Instead, just three years later, her life’s work was in peril. What happened? https://t.co/58Imld4xdE

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10 Jun 25

Tribeca Audio Track Official Selections — Interview https://t.co/1EIPeV3AJE

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Articles

A Leaflet Dropped Over Amy Weller’s House

Mike Sub-Sacks

An Interview with a Working, Successful Comedy Writer

Mike Sub-Sacks

Why My Favorite Character in "The Breakfast Club" Is Now the Janitor

This Is How We Love: The Foto-Novel

Is North Carolina the canary in the coal mine for American democracy?

E.A. Hanks Knew Her Memoir Would Have to Go There With Her Family

Mike Sub-Sacks

The Einstein of Photo Comedy Books (Part 1)

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