Over 25 years ago a producer on “The Screen Savers” came to me and said “Do you know a Dick DeBartolo?”

“Uh,” I eloquently replied, “THE Dick DeBartolo, MAD Magazine’s maddest writer? Yeah! Why?”

“He wants to be on the show.”

Thus began a quarter-century love fest with one of my childhood heroes. And a chance to be immortalized in the magazine that taught me everything I know about modern culture. Well, the culture of the 60’s, anyway.

From the upcoming MAD Magazine #42…(It’s a best-of so I guess it’s “bucket list ✔️ed again.”)

If only we had made band-aids with pictures of pets on them!

Dick still does his show every week with Chad Johnson over at GizWiz.tv (now over 2000 of them!) and will join me for a special reunion episode Friday 5/23 at 4PM Eastern. I’ll break out all the old GizWiz jingles.

And, of course, every TWiT episode is still available from the archives at twit.tv/dgw. Good times!