A former political operative, recovering copywriter, and failed sitcom writer, Mark Katz is now the founder and principal of the Soundbite Institute, a creative think tank that specializes in on-message humor. His essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time magazine, and he is the author of Clinton & Me: A Real Life Political Comedy, an account of eight years as the in-house humor speechwriter of the Clinton White House.