He attended
Harvard College, graduating with a degree in government in 1984. While there he began his comedy writing career as an editor of the school's
humor magazine,
The Harvard Lampoon. Upon graduating, Sacks moved to
Los Angeles and began writing for television. For a while, he and fellow Lampoon editor
Rob LaZebnik were writing partners. Their first television job was on
Not Necessarily the News. Later they wrote together for the sitcoms
Women in Prison and
Empty Nest. Sacks was among the future
The Simpsons writers who wrote for
George Meyer's
Army Man comedy zine in the late 1980s. His writing and producing credits include seasons five and six on
The Simpsons, for which he won an
Emmy Award;
3rd Rock from the Sun, for which he received a
Golden Globe Award;
Malcolm in the Middle,
The Tick,
Pound Puppies,
Regular Show,
Murphy Brown, and created and executive produced ''
Lewis Black's The Root of All Evil'' for
Comedy Central. In 2013, Sacks produced a weekly podcast Spiritual Tools for An Outrageous World available on
iTunes and Stitcher.com. He executive produced and cowrote
Nickelodeon's
Pig Goat Banana Cricket with series co-creator Johnny Ryan, and was executive producing and showrunning
TBS' original series
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