It’s the name up on the marquee that generally gets all the credit in comedy. But sometimes the ones who can truly tickle your funny bone? The writers behind the big names. Journalist Mike Sacks brings them into the big time in his latest book And Here’s the Kicker. Jimmy Carrane talked with him in Studio 312. Jimmy gets the dish from Mike Sacks on a wide range of topics, including comedy nerds vs. Harry Potter nerds, comedy legends who wrote for the Marx Brothers, and M*A*S*H and Bob Hope.

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