Brian Sack

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Sack discusses his France lapel pin with Glenn Beck

Brian Sack is an American actor and humorist based in New York City. He appears on the Glenn Beck on Headline News, a daily television program on CNN Headline News. Sack serves on the show as a correspondent and as the "Public Viewer" - where he takes host Beck to task on a variety of subjects, usually revolving around Beck's own performance on the show.

Sack writes humor for a variety of outlets including Radar, The Independent, CRACKED, Glamour, Fusion Magazine, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. His list of "Possible Closing Lines For A Defendant Who Has Chosen To Represent Himself" appears in the anthology Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category. Most of his work can be categorized as satire.

Sack appears with musician John Mayer in a comedy short titled "The Paul Reddy Show." The half-hour comedy appears on Mayer's Heavier Things DualDisc. Sack's clueless "Paul Reddy" character was based on PBS mainstay Charlie Rose.

In September 2005 Sack penned an eBay listing titled "DKNY Men's Leather Pants I Unfortunately Own" which achieved a record 3.4 million hits. The lament appeared in newspapers worldwide including the The Guardian, New York Daily News, The Independent and Women's Wear Daily. Sack was interviewed on American and UK radio about the experience.

In December 2006, Publisher's Marketplace reported Sack signed a book deal with HarperCollins. The book, for which he is "contractually obligated to deliver 224 pages", is titled In The Event Of My Untimely Demise and is due out sometime in 2008.