How Success Happens

Mike Sacks Doesn’t Wait For Permission to Succeed — and You Shouldn’t Either


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Andy Richter calls this week’s guest “a bona fide weirdo with virtually no interest in satisfying anything other than his own personal obsessions.”


The weirdo in question is Mike Sacks, who has written for the likes of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, McSweeney’s and who has built something of an industry writing novelizations of movies that don’t exist and memoirs of people who were never born. And then turning those works into audiobooks voiced by the funniest people on Earth, including Jon Hamm, Paul Reubens, Amy Sedaris and many more. In this interview, he talks about how he has found breakout success as a self-published author, how he’s become someone the top names in comedy want to work with, and the secrets he learned about getting reviews after years of working at Vanity Fair


He’s got a new book out in April called This Is How We Love. Learn all about the punk rock aesthetic he embraces to bring his ideas to life, one bonkers book at a time. Whether you’re looking for advice on making it in the world of comedy writing, or just looking for a laugh, this episode is for you.


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