[7] Together, they entered a competition to write the Hasty Pudding production and were selected to develop their script "Between the Sheiks".

While living in Los Angeles, he appeared as a contestant on the game show Jeopardy!

[6] He was literary manager for the now-defunct Los Angeles Theater Center,[6] a stage director, an actor, a playwright and a screenwriter, and an extra in a Michael Jackson video.

[15][12][13][16][17] Sagal has written screenplays,[18] one for a 1996 science fiction / martial arts thriller, Savage, another for Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, a 2004 sequel to the original Dirty Dancing, adapted from his screenplay Cuba Mine,[13][16] which Sagal said bears little resemblance to the poorly-received film.

[19] He appeared as himself in the "Pay Pal" episode of the animated television series The Simpsons.

team contributed a feature called Sandwich Monday to The Salt, NPR's food blog.

[33] In the early 1990s while he was living in Minneapolis, Sagal was hired to ghostwrite an autobiography of the 1970s pornography director Gail Palmer.

[6][15][16] Sagal discovered that Palmer did not direct the pornography movies attributed to her, and that she was a front for her pornographer boyfriend.

[6] Publishers Weekly called Book of Vice, "a hilarious, harmlessly prurient look at the banality of regular people’s strange and wicked pleasures".

[18] The host of the show was to be a comedian named Dan Coffey[7] who would quiz panelists, celebrity guests and non-celebrity callers.

For instance, in December 2014, Sagal attempted a joke about a Diocese of Brooklyn Christmas ad depicting a young woman taking a selfie with a picture of Jesus.

Critics including Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and Dallas First Baptist Church senior pastor Robert Jeffress called the joke blasphemous and accused Sagal specifically and the secular media in general of mocking Christianity.

When asked about the incident, NPR President and CEO Jarl Mohn said, "[T]he show's goal is to poke fun at the news and make people laugh" and he "regrets that we didn't succeed in this case".