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Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason makes you laugh out loud, and at the same time it inspires wonder. This is my language? youll find yourself thinking. Really? Nowhere else will you read the phrase shame spiral eye patch or find the word robot alongside with a bartending degree. This is to say that Mike Sacks is not just a sensational comic writer, but a sensational writerperiod.

DAVID SEDARIS

Any book that has funny jokes about porno, robots, and Shaft has to be good. And this one is.

JACK HANDEY

This humor collection is packed with winners. In one of my many favorites, The Rejection of Anne Frank, a publisher slams the fifteen-year-old girls diary for trailing off at the end. What more do you want, America? Mike Sacks is hilarious, unique, and possibly crazy. You should definitely buy his book, or at the very least, steal it from somewhere.

SIMON RICH, writer for Saturday Night Live;
author of Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations,
Free-Range Chickens, and Elliot Allagash

This book is super funny but also very human, which is my favorite kind of comedy. Mike Sacks is a very smart and talented guy. Now if hed just pay me back that money he owes me.

PAUL FEIG, creator of Freaks and Geeks;
author of Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence
and Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin

A blurb, as Mike Sacks explains in his book, is a glowing remark on the back cover written by an author or TV chef. Heres my glowing remark: This is a very, very funny book.

A. J. JACOBS, contributing writer, Esquire; author of
The Guinea Pig Diaries and The Year of Living Biblically

Sacks has an uncanny ability to see through the BS of modern life and into what really makes us tick. Which would be depressing as hell, if it werent so funny.

SAM MEANS, writer for The Daily Show and
author of A Practical Guide to Racism

In the world of humor writing, a Mike Sacks story is a must read. Sackss short pieces walk the fine line between clever and ridiculous. Not quite high-brow or low-brow, but more upper-middle-brow. They shop at Whole Foods, but still go to Dunkin Donuts. In short, his stories make us want to buy inordinately priced organic produce and fried dough. If this does not make him a national treasure, then we must redefine the meaning of the term.

CHRISTOPHER MONKS, editor, McSweeneys.net

Mike Sacks rehabilitated me from a deep, dark depression. I nursed from his teat, followed his gentle wisdom, and now Im doing much better. Books great, too.

ERIC WAREHEIM, Tim and Eric Awesome Show

Though many people continue to believe that Mike Sacks is little more than a nonexistent cryptid, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster, this book proves once and for all that he is real. And that he is brilliant. And if you walk around with this book in your hands, people will think youre brilliant!

JASON EATON, author of The Facttracker

The funniest book since Woody Allens Getting Even, without nearly as many references to the Talmud.

DANA BROWN, senior articles editor, Vanity Fair

In Your Wildest Dreams, Mike Sacks claims one of the worst places to die is on a toilet... reading this book, but I would be proud to have anyone discover my body clutching this hilarious volume, as long as I had flushed first.

MIKE SWEENEY, head writer for Late Night with
Conan OBrien, Tonight Show with Conan OBrien, Conan

Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason is an eclectic treasure of humor, and the ludicrous suggestion that a pretty blonde would work at Grays Papaya.

BRIAN SACK, author of In the Event of
My Untimely Demise

Laughter can be found on nearly every page of this collection. Except, of course, for page eighty-seven. There is nothing on that page but unflagging horror and despair.

DAN GUTERMAN, head writer, The Onion

Mike Sacks takes on the narration personae of the hapless, the moronic, the pathetic, and the administratively inclined in order to save comedic prose, yes, but more importantly to make you laugh in that twitchy, awkward way that is hugely sincere, but also unbecoming on the subway.

JULIE KLAUSNER, writer for Best Week Ever with
Paul F. Tompkins and Robert Smigels TV Funhouse;
author of I Dont Care About Your Band

Sackss wit isnt just razor sharpits as sharp as the tool that a mohel brings to a circumcision. And its just as likely to leave its beneficiary gasping for air... and, for some reason, lox.

ROB KUTNER, writer for The Daily Show, Tonight
Show with Conan OBrien; author of Apocalypse How:
Turn the End-Times into the Best of Times!

With Your Wildest Dreams, Mike Sacks proves himself to be one of todays best humor writers. He also proves himself to be completely and utterly out of his mind. Seriously, I dont want this guy anywhere near me or any of my stuff.

JON WURSTER, The Best Show on WFMU

Like most comedy savants, Mike Sacks knows too much about the human condition to interact with us. Seriously, if fate puts you anywhere near this guy, steer clear. Read this book instead. Its sharp, knowing, and laugh-out-loud funnyand, unlike Mike, not hazardous to your health.

FRANK DIGIACOMO, the only person in
The Aristocrats who didnt get a single laugh

I would call Mike Sackss Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason a fantastic bathroom read, but no one should ever laugh that hard in a bathroom. That would be like something out of a Mike Sacks piece. A great, great collection.

CHRIS REGAN, co-author of America (The Book);
author of Mass Historia: 365 Days of Historical
Facts and (Mostly) Fictions

Why surf the Web for hours trying (unsuccessfully) to find something funny, when you can just pick up this book and surf Mike Sackss brilliant brain? Funny tweets, texts, stories, lists, confessions, rules, and even dirty picturesall between these two covers, and with no cookies or pop-ups.

DAVID MINER, producer, manager, and
partner at 3 Arts Entertainment

For Kate and Little D.

In my wildest imagination, as limited as one such exists, I never did once consider Id end up in such an odd, curious situation. This begets that, and its time to die. Please tell my wife to water the flower-bed.

Last words of Jaele Wheeler,
accused murderer of the Seneca Seven,
Poolesville, Maryland, 1914

ATTENTION READERS: This Is a Warning!

The pieces contained within this book were first published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, McSweeneys, Esquire, Vice, and any number of other publications, including a few which no longer exist.

But thats not what Im warning you about. Heres what Im warning you about: The vast majority of these short humor piecesor the random list, the occasional illustration, other effluviahave absolutely nothing to do with each other. There is no overarching theme, no recurring characters, nothing that links one piece to another. There are exceptions, but this is mainly the case.

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