- Brian Sack
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occupation=writer ,comedian ,actor Brian Sack (born
1968 ) is an Americanwriter andactor . Sack is a graduate ofIthaca College in New York and lives inNew York City .He is the author of "In the Event of My Untimely Demise: 20 Things My Son Needs to Know" (HarperCollins, 2008) [cite book| last=Sack | first=Brian | title=In the Event of My Untimely Demise: 20 Things My Son Needs to Know | publisher=HarperCollins | year=2008| isbn=9780061374302] .
Sack has written for "Radar", "
The Independent ", "CRACKED ", "Glamour", "Fusion Magazine", and "McSweeney's Internet Tendency".He appears on "Glenn Beck on Headline News", a daily television program on
CNN Headline News where he serves as comedic relief and the show's "Public Viewer", taking host Beck to task on a variety of subjects. He is also a contributor on CNN Headline's "Not Just Another Cable News Show ".He can be heard in the video game
Grand Theft Auto IV as host "Mike Riley" of the Public Liberty Radio network's "Intelligent Agenda" program.Sack and musician
John Mayer collaborated on a comedy short titled "The Paul Reddy Show." The half-hour comedy appears on Mayer'sHeavier Things DualDisc . Sack's clueless "Paul Reddy" character was based onPBS mainstayCharlie Rose and peppers Mayer with outlandish and often absurd questions. [cite web |url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GpewL0d1V0 |title= The Paul Reddy Show ]In
September 2005 Sack penned aneBay listing titled "DKNY Men's Leather Pants I Unfortunately Own" which achieved a record 3.4 million hits and appeared in newspapers worldwide including theThe Guardian ,New York Daily News ,The Independent andWomen's Wear Daily . [Cite news | last=Sack | first=Brian | author-link=Brian Sack | title=The Wrong Trousers: An eBay Phenomenon | newspaper=The Independent | year=2005 | date=18 October 2005 | url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-wrong-trousers--an-ebay-phenomenon-511457.html] In December 2007 another auction titled "Drive Someone Insane with Postcards" offered to send mystery correspondence from Eastern Europe to a mark of the bidder's choosing. In an interview on NPR Sack told hostLinda Wertheimer the top bid was $415 for three postcards. [cite web |url= http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17691830 |title= NPR Weekend Edition: Postcards From the Edge ]During college Sack performed sketch comedy with "
Daily Show " alumnusChris Regan and "MAD-TV" performerAndrew Daly . He spent ten years with improvisational comedy troupeLaughing Matters performing alongside "Aqua Teen Hunger Force " actorMike Schatz and "Boston Legal " regularGary Anthony Williams .External links
* [http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2008/08/20/qa-brian-sack-ad-man-turned-advice-man.html Vanity Fair interview]
* [http://www.briansack.com Brian Sack website]
* [http://www.banterist.com Banterist, Brian Sack's humor weblog]
*imdb name|id=1936409|title=Brian SackReferences
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