Comedy Writer Mike Sacks Thinks Most Gen X Movies Were Bullshit…And Now He’s Written One
11 min readDec 9, 2020
Over the last few years, comedy writer Mike Sacks, author of NYTimes bestseller Poking a Dead Frog, has begun publishing comedic novelizations of fake movies. His 2017 release, Stinker Lets Loose!, was a novelization to a fake trucking movie from the ’70s, in Passable In Pink, it was a John Hughes-esque movie from 1983. Now he’s releasing a…