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At long last ... the candid, shocking and previously untold story of Skippy "Batty" Battison, the universe''s most radical, free-thinking, and honest comedian, comedy writer, satellite radio and podcasting star! 

Vulture''s Best Books of 2022 (So Far!)

Mike Sacks is a master of a particular type of writing that he probably invented or at least perfected - a dazzling, tricky act of written performance art, composing an entire manuscript from the point of view of a fictional character. In doing so, he satirizes stuffy literary conventions and loathsome segments of society at the same time. Following Stinker Lets Loose, the novelization of a late-''70s Smokey and the Bandit knockoff that doesn''t exist, and Randy, a faux self-published memoir from a Maryland dirtbag, Sacks takes on the all-too-familiar and aggravatingly toxic phenomenon of the failed comedian who becomes a self-styled "un-PC" right-wing pundit purporting to tell it like it is, a career path born out of professional desperation that gives voice to the rage and anger they''ve always had for women and non-white people. Skippy "Batty" Battison, the first-person "hero" of Passing on the Right, sure does think he''s funny and totally blowing your mind, except he''s excruciatingly not funny but rather dangerous and horrible, so deeply pathetic and sad that it comes around the other side to funny again. Passing is an astute and provocative character study of a guy who so desperately wishes he were Greg Gutfeld, and Sacks''s first-person commitment to the bit is a master class in postmodern meta comedy. - Brian Boone

This guy isn''t afraid to "tell it like it is"!

Nothing is held back! 

The infamous memoir that was dumped by Viking in June 2021 for being "too controversial" and "against our moral standards"

Now being published by Sunshine Beam Press!

Many consider Skippy to be the "Worst Person in Comedy"

While others feel that Skippy''s story deserves to be heard, from his humble beginnings in Bethesda, Maryland, to his graduation from Georgetown Prep (a few years after Kavanaugh), to his performing stand-up in Ocean City, Maryland (once), to his writing for the 1998 Academy Awards (the Titanic parody as sung by Billy Crystal), to his one unproduced Simpsons episode, to his fifteen unproduced movie scripts ("too hot to handle!"), to his being the only white writer on The Wayans Bros., to his supposed "invention" of the phrase "That''s what she said!," to his stint in prison over a misunderstanding involving an underage girl, to his conversion to GOP family values, to his "involvement" in the January 6th "situation"!

Love him or hate him, more than 5 Million of his daily listeners to his satellite radio show and podcast definitely have an opinion!

The FIRST memoir from America''s Number One Conservative Comedic Persona Who''s Always ... RIGHT

"I Am Super Pumped! Let''s Do This Shit!!!!!!!!!!!" is a collection of conversations between Mike Sacks and his PR guy to promote Sacks''s 2022 book, PASSING ON THE RIGHT. A follow-up to the book PASSING ON THE RIGHT.

Named One of Vulture''s Top 5 Humor Books of the Year!

The novelization to the 1992 Gen X movie "Slouchers"

It is the early 1990s in Seattle ... and the MTV video for Nirvana''s "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has just premiered the previous week. Lethargy is in the air. Grunge fashion is all the logy rage. Something is brewing beneath these moist, overcast Seattle skies.

Twenty-two-year-old Willow Montgomery has freshly arrived in town, having just graduated from an elite liberal arts college back east.

Willow soon befriends a motley crew of twenty-somethings who live in the parking lot next to the alternative record store where she works for $5 an hour, a store run by a cantankerous, irritable, grouchy older man (he''s 29) named Skip.

Willow wants to desperately capture the brilliance of her generation on her Fuji DS-100 digicam with 3-power zoom (10-byte, digital flash-memory card, first of its kind), and to have her documentary ultimately broadcast on MTV. What a dream!

In the meantime, she''s dating Toody, part-time bike messenger, part-time lead singer of the grunge band That''s Your Problem.

But there''s a new man in town, "Mr. Straight," an important businessman who works downtown and who also has eyes for Willow, after having met her while buying a Best Of Aerosmith CD at Skip''s store.

Whom will Willow choose? The Grunger or the Straight? The man who digs this new music called "grunge" or the one who still listens to classic rock? Will she achieve any semblance of happiness? Will she continue to work a minimum McJob for the rest of her life, or can she somehow achieve her artistic goals, as lofty as they might be?

Will the Lost Boys and Girls, as they call themselves, ever leave the parking lot to achieve their own dreams?

Moreover, will the famous inventor of the hacky sack ever arrive at the parking lot in a stretch limousine like he''s promised?

Lastly: Is it true that the world''s most famous MTV VJ, Tabitha, is coming to Seattle to host the first Great MTV Grunge Off competition, to be filmed for live TV, for all the world to see?!

It''s 1992 in Seattle and the world is about to change forever. Or maybe not.

Regardless:

It''s all about the look ... it''s all about the collective alienation ... it''s all about the deep-seated, delicious apathy ...

It''s all about ... Slouchers.

Passable in Pink deftly sends up the 1980s and John Hughes movies while addressing the vital question: Will Addy Stevenson go to the senior prom?

Addy is suffering through her sophomore year at suburban Chicago''s Northridge High. She lives on the "wrong" side of the lake with her father, a struggling advertising copywriter ("Where the hell is the goddamn beef?") and her ever-boozy mom ("Get me another drink, baby, and really make it sing."). Addy''s younger brother, Spaz, her soon-to-marry older sister, Princess, and a visiting international transfer student add to the mix.

Her world is turned upside down when she meets Roland McDough, the "most beautiful Richie boy" at Northridge High. Is he actually interested in Addy, or is he just playing a game?

Are you ready to jump back into the cool, neon-glazed, high-topped reality of the 1980s? Do you miss those kick-ass tubular synth-rockin'' sounds and delicious phantasma-gaseous smells? When was the last time you put on your Members Only jacket and danced the Safety Dance?

A loving send-up of a bygone era, this is one book in which Every Breath You Take will remind you of How You Used to Be.