Mike Sacks

Mike Sacks is an American author and comedy writer based in New York City. Sacks is currently an editor at Vanity Fair and formerly worked for The Washington Post. He contributes to the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Esquire, Salon, Vanity Fair, GQ, Believer, Vice, the New York Times and the Washington Post. As of 2025, Sacks is the New York Times bestselling author of 12 comedy books. The last four have been featured on Vulture’s “Best Comedy Books of the Year” list.

Sacks has written four hit comedy audio projects, two through Audible, featuring Jon Hamm, Rhea Seehorn, Andy Richter, Paul F. Tompkins, Philip Baker Hall, Bobby Moynihan, John Waters, Adam Scott, Gillian Jacobs, Bob Odenkirk, Laraine Newman, and others.

Sacks' collection of humorous photos of television shows has been featured on NPR and Gawker. 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.

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

Sacks is a frequent opening reader for David Sedaris at Sedaris's live events.

Episodes of the podcast Doin' It with Mike Sacks have been produced since January 2016.