David Sacks is an American television writer and producer.
He attended Harvard College, graduating with a degree in government. 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. 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. [1]
He executive produced, cowrote and co-developed Nickelodeon's Pig Goat Banana Cricket with series co-creator Johnny Ryan and Dave Cooper, and as of 2016 [update] was executive producing and showrunning TBS' original series Final Space . [2]