He has written two books, both titles dedicated to his years behind the microphone or on the stage as an actor: Can't Get HERE from THERE and That's Not Funny!
In addition, he was active as a theatrical performer, while simultaneously performing weekends at the (Joe) Louis Theater under the tutelage of playwright Theodore Ward, who sought Sanders to play the lead role of Joshua Tain in his three-act drama with music, Our Lan’.
Sanders appeared in productions of wide-ranging genre for several main-line companies including Hull House Theatre, the American Negro Opera Guild, the Richard B. Harrison Players, and the Southside Center for Performing Arts.
In 1963, Sanders served as Theatre Consultant for the American Negro Emancipation Centennial Exposition in Chicago in 1963 and narrated NBC’s documentary One More River.
During this period, Sanders also hosted a call-in talk show and a quiz contest over WCIU-TV,[1] Chicago’s Channel 26.
At WCIU, he was often called to work with Don Cornelius—before his Soul Train fame—and Roy Wood as anchor on A Black’s View of the News.
In 1969 he introduced the nation's first black and white stand-up comedy team, Tim and Tom, and managed them for four years before their break-up.
Since returning to live in Orlando in 1997, Vince Sanders has published two books: Can't Get HERE from THERE,[3] based on his role in the development of NBN, the world’s first Black-owned and operated radio news network that was designed to cover news from an African-American perspective; and That's Not Funny!, from the vantage point of Sanders' management of the nation’s first Black and White stand-up comedy team, Tim and Tom, formed by actor/producer Tim Reid and stand-up comic Tom Dreesen, who endured the disdain of hostile audiences while trying to induce Americans to laugh at the unfortunate aspects of America's racial practices.