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MAD Magazine #254April 1985
- The Mad Don't Book Chapter I: What Not To Do At A Funeral (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Paul Coker, Jr.)
Department: Blunder Enlightening
MAD Magazine #257September 1985
- The Mad Sports Page (Writer with Bob Clarke, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Jock the Presses
MAD Magazine #258October 1985
- Mad's Celebrity Supermarket (Writer with Bob Clarke, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Big-Name Brands
MAD Magazine #259December 1985
- Cabbage Patch Products For People Who Hate Cabbage Patch Products (Writer with Charlie Kadau, George Woodbridge)
Department: Goodbye Dolly
MAD Magazine #265September 1986
- Cover: Garbage Pail Issue Nauseating Neuman (Writer with John Ficarra, Charlie Kadau, Richard Williams, Sara Fowler, Nick Meglin)
- At the Wedding Of Fred Hemmes (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Don Martin)
Department: Don Martin - Back Cover: Garbage Pail Adults (Writer with John Ficarra, Charlie Kadau, Bill Elder, Nick Meglin, Sara Fowler, Harvey Kurtzman)
MAD Magazine #266October 1986
- Cover: Hot TV Issue (Writer with John Ficarra, Mort Drucker, Charlie Kadau, Nick Meglin, Sara Fowler)
MAD Magazine #267December 1986
- Cover: In This Issue We Shoot Down Top Gun (Writer with John Ficarra, Charlie Kadau, Richard Williams, Sara Fowler, Nick Meglin)
- Future 'Special Editions' of Trivial Pursuit (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Elizabeth White)
Department: The Lame of the Game
MAD Magazine #269March 1987
- The Mess Commission Report On Pornography (Writer with Charlie Kadau, George Woodbridge, Irving Schild)
Department: Get Smut! - Mad Charts (Writer with Charlie Kadau)
Department: Stat's All, Folks!
MAD Magazine #271June 1987
- Strikes We'd Like to See Occur... And Never See Settled! (Writer with Charlie Kadau, George Woodbridge)
MAD Magazine #274October 1987
- Back Cover: Mad's No Credit Cards (Writer with Bob Clarke, Charlie Kadau)
MAD Magazine #275December 1987
- Mad's Guide To Talk Show Hosts (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Sam Viviano)
Department: Chat's All, Folks
MAD Magazine #279June 1988
- Mad Opens A Typical Magazine Sweepstakes Package (Writer with Bob Clarke, Charlie Kadau)
Department: The Envelope, Sleaze!
MAD Magazine #280July 1988
- New Cigarette Warning Labels You May Have Missed (Writer with Irving Schild, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Ifs, Ands and Butts - A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes At A High School Prom (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Sergio Aragonés)
Department: The Tux Flocks Here - Gary Hart Land (Writer with Al Jaffee, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Carnival Knowledge Edge - Back Cover: Alfred E. Neuman For President - Vote Mad in '88 (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Norman Mingo)
MAD Magazine #284January 1989
- The Last Resort (Writer with George Woodbridge, Charlie Kadau)
Department: The Linking Memorial
MAD Magazine #285March 1989
- Toys "R" U (Writer with George Woodbridge, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Flattery Not Included - Back Cover: Toys "R" Us Catalogue (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Bob Clarke)
MAD Magazine #288July 1989
- Back Cover: Metal Sludge Magazine (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Irving Schild)
MAD Magazine #289September 1989
- MAD Charts (Writer with Charlie Kadau)
Department: Speaking With a List
MAD Magazine #291December 1989
- More Items From Mad's Celebrity Supermarket (Writer with Bob Clarke, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Big-Name Brands
MAD Magazine #294April 1990
- The MAD Career Mart (Writer with Bob Clarke, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Schmoe Jobs - The Mad Don't Book (Chapters 2-5) (Writer with Paul Coker, Jr., Charlie Kadau)
Department: Blunder Enlightening
MAD Magazine #296July 1990
- 2 Hour School Of Dentistry (Writer with Tom Bunk, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Tooth In Advertising
MAD Magazine #297September 1990
- Choke (Writer with Tom Bunk, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Smoke Gets In Their Lies
MAD Magazine #298October 1990
- Villains Awaiting Batman's Return To TV (Writer with Rick Tulka, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Fiends Like Old Times
MAD Magazine #300January 1991
- Back Cover: Mad ad "8 Bluckbuster Movies For 89 cents!" (Writer with Greg Theakston, Charlie Kadau)
MAD Magazine #301March 1991
- New Kids Albums Of The 21st century (Writer with Greg Theakston, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Block To The Future - Mad Magazine's Reader's Competition (Writer with Charlie Kadau)
Department: Prose and Contest
MAD Magazine #302April 1991
- Hi, Readers! Reverend Donald Wildmon Here! (Writer with Jack Davis, Charlie Kadau)
MAD Magazine #304July 1991
- A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes At A Madonna Video (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Mort Drucker)
Department: Unlike A Virgin
MAD Magazine #305September 1991
- The MAD Summer Camp Guide (Writer with Charlie Kadau, George Woodbridge)
Department: Outdoor Wreck-Reation - Back Cover: Stupid Teen Magazine (Writer with R. Glazer, Charlie Kadau)
MAD Magazine #306October 1991
- MAD's Create-Your-Own Vanilla Ice Biography (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Sam Viviano)
Department: Ripping Van Winkle - MAD's Soap Opera Update (Writer with Rick Tulka, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Slaying The Plot Machines - Back Cover: Mad ad "How To Spot a Mutt Life Representative" (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Angelo Torres)
MAD Magazine #308January 1992
- Back Cover: Mad ad "I'm The NRA." (Writer with Irving Schild, Charlie Kadau, Peter Sun)
MAD Magazine #310April 1992
- 50/50 Reports On Sleaze Biographers (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Mort Drucker)
Department: Writing a Wrong
MAD Magazine #311June 1992
- "Next Donahue" (Writer with Rick Tulka, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Various Places around the Magazine - Back Cover: Mad ad "She's had three miscarriages in the last two years. Still she drinks Johnnie Warper" (Writer with Irving Schild, Charlie Kadau)
MAD Magazine #316January 1993
- MAD's Avalanche O'Catalogs (Writer with George Woodbridge, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Circular Jerks - Back Cover: Sasssy Magazine (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Jaques Chenet)
MAD Magazine #318April 1993
- The National Pick-Your-Own Relatives Clearing House Catalogue (Writer with George Woodbridge, Dan Birtcher, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Clan Digging
MAD Magazine #320July 1993
- Great Moments From The Home Shopping Club: Own Them All on Videocassette! (Writer with Jack Davis, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Buy Now, Play Later
MAD Magazine #321September 1993
- Charade (Writer with Sam Viviano, Charlie Kadau)
Department: Insert Ouch!
MAD Magazine #322October 1993
- The Belching Dragon (Writer with George Woodbridge, Charlie Kadau)
Department: A Wok On The Wild Side
MAD Magazine #324January 1994
- MAD's 1993 Washington Lobbyist All-Stars (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Tom Bunk)
Department: Here Comes The Bribe
MAD Magazine #325February 1994
- Back Cover: Mad ad Finally, A Cure For The Common Coffin! (Writer with Charlie Kadau, James Warhola)
MAD Magazine #328June 1994
- MAD Classified Ads (Writer with Charlie Kadau)
Department: Swindler's Listings
MAD Magazine #332December 1994
- America's Most Noteworthy Science Fair Projects... That Lost! (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Tom Bunk)
Department: He Who Labs Last
MAD Magazine #357May 1997
- Introducing a New Magazine from Time-Murdoch Ventures! (Writer with Irving Schild)
- The Mad Repertory Players Present Mad-sterpiece Theater This Issue's Production: Sportsdunk (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Tom Bunk)
Department: When the Schtick Hits the Fan
MAD Magazine #359July 1997
- Letters (Shown on photo with Sam Viviano, John Ficarra, David Shayne, Nick Meglin, Desmond Devlin, Al Jaffee, Charlie Kadau, Sergio Aragonés, Annie Gaines)
Department: Letters and Tomatoes
MAD Magazine #363November 1997
- So What if it's 110 Degrees, You'd Better Keep Sewing (Writer with David Shayne, Irving Schild)
MAD Magazine #364December 1997
- NBC's Desperate Plans for Seinfeld Spinoffs (Writer with Drew Friedman, David Shayne)
Department: Jerry-mandering
MAD Magazine #369May 1998
- White House Internship Official Application (Writer with David Shayne)
Department: Sick Willie
MAD Magazine #372August 1998
- Back Cover: Toyzuki: Trouble on the road (Writer with David Shayne, James Kirkland)
MAD Magazine #377January 1999
- 19. Marv Albert Sinks His Teeth Into a New Job - "Hey Hey Hey, It's Marv Albert!" (Writer with Sam Viviano, David Shayne)
MAD Magazine #378February 1999
- Subscription Advertisement - "Dan Brown" dressed as a viking (Writer with Irving Schild)
MAD Magazine #380April 1999
- Subscription Advertisement - Dan Brown (Writer with Irving Schild)
- Steve Grieve's Official Catalog of Rare, Unaffordable Rock & Roll Memorabilia (Writer with David Shayne, Timothy Shamey)
MAD Magazine #381May 1999
- Tofu Times – The New Age Newspaper (Writer with Charlie Kadau, James Warhola)
Department: Soy Story - Subscription Advertisement - Dan Brown dressed as a lobster (Writer with Irving Schild)
MAD Magazine #382June 1999
- Subscription Advertisement - Dan Brown dressed as a bee (Writer with Irving Schild)
MAD Magazine #383July 1999
- The Omahog Steaks Meats by Mail Catalogue (Writer with James Warhola, David Shayne)
Department: The Loin King
MAD Magazine #389January 2000
- 7. Around the Clock John F. Kennedy Jr. Crash Coverage (People magazine cover parody) (Writer with David Shayne)
MAD Magazine #432August 2003
- A “True Red, White & Blue” American Patriot (Writer with Paul Coker, Jr.)
Department: Put Another Ideologue on the Fire
MAD Magazine #436December 2003
- Sure signs that your school is underfunded (Writer with Hermann Mejia)
Department: Dread of the Class
MAD Magazine #438February 2004
- The Fundalini Pages: "Celebrity Cause-Of-Death betting odds: 50 cent", "The Godfrey Report", "The 5 stages of Superbowl-Office pool bettor grief", "First... Then... What's next?", Celebrity Verse", Monkeys are always funny", "Weapons U.S. Inspectors did find in Iraq", Bitterman", "The fast 5 - The 5 most-likely things Michael Jackson was thinking while having his mug shot photo taken", "An Interne (Author with Mike Snider, Josh Malinow, Drew Friedman, Scott Bricher, Scott Maiko, Arie Kaplan, Johnny Styne, Desmond Devlin, Kevin Pope, Evan Dorkin, Butch D'Ambrosio, Tom Bunk, Charlie Kadau, John Caldwell, Garth Gerhart)
Department: Random Acts of Mindless - The Fundalini Pages: "Celebrity Cause-Of-Death betting odds: 50 cent", "The Godfrey Report", "The 5 stages of Superbowl-Office pool bettor grief", "First... Then... What's next?", Celebrity Verse", Monkeys are always funny", "Weapons U.S. Inspectors did find in Iraq", Bitterman", "The fast 5 - The 5 most-likely things Michael Jackson was thinking while having his mug shot photo taken", "An Interne (Author with Charlie Kadau, John Caldwell, Garth Gerhart, Mike Snider, Josh Malinow, Drew Friedman, Scott Bricher, Scott Maiko, Arie Kaplan, Johnny Styne, Desmond Devlin, Kevin Pope, Evan Dorkin, Butch D'Ambrosio, Tom Bunk)
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
MAD Magazine #442June 2008
- Similarities between the Middle East and the U.S.A. (Writer with Nathan Fox)
Department: Cultures Clubbed
MAD Magazine #443July 2004
- The Fundalini Pages: "Move over Oprah! It's Condoleezza Rice's Book Reviews!", "Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: The Olsen Twins", "What people earn", "California Court gives blessing to controversial bout", "Freakshow Face-Off", Pull my Cheney", The Puzzle Nook", Bitterman", "Video Game News Ticker", Graphic Novel Review: Furry Funland", American Idol rejected theme weeks", "Mama-Mafia" (Author with Charles Akins, Sam Sisco, Patrick Merrel, Charlie Kadau, Gary Hallgreen, Garth Gerhart, Mike Snider, Don Edwing, Jack Syracuse, Jeff Kruse, Tom Cheney, Desmond Devlin)
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
MAD Magazine #444August 2004
- You know a Rapper's gone soft when... (Writer with Hermann Mejia)
Department: Wimpin' ain't easy
MAD Magazine #447November 2004
- Unabridged corporate slogans (Writer with Tom Nick Cocotos)
Department: A long phrase journey into blight - What to expect at your team's spanking new $450 million ballpark (Writer with Getty Images, Al Jaffee)
Department: Field of Schemes
MAD Magazine #448December 2004
- Britney Spears' Wedding Evite (Writer with Drew Friedman)
Department: Invitation.con
MAD Magazine #449January 2005
- The Fundalini Pages: "First...Then...What's Next?", "Bitterman", "Highlights of the new Seinfeld DVD", "disHarmony: My name is Denise", "Melvin & Jenkins' guide to church socials", "The puzzle nook", "Jailhouse Letter from Martha Stewart", "disHarmony: My name is Ed", "Celebrity cause-of-death betting odds", "Wifi Wonderland", "The Godfrey Report", "Tips to make your holiday more enjoyable", "disH (Author with David Shayne, Garth Gerhart, Tom Bunk, Carolyn Abram, Irving Schild, Kevin Pope, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Patrick Merrel, Hermann Mejia, Jeff Kruse, Tom Cheney, Desmond Devlin, Scott Bricher)
Department: Random Acts of Mindless - 5. Steroid Testing in Baseball (Writer with Jack Syracuse)
Department: The MAD 20 dumbest people, events and things of 2004 - 9. Britney's first wedding (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Irving Schild)
Department: The MAD 20 dumbest people, events and things of 2004
MAD Magazine #451March 2005
- Other Images of religious figures in Food currently being offered on eBay (Writer with Scott Bricher)
Department: I can't believe I ate the holy thing! - Things we definetly won't miss about buying CDs (Writer with Tom Bunk)
Department: Disc, Too, Shall Pass
MAD Magazine #453May 2005
- 9 surefire ways to improve the NBA's lousy image (Writer with Paul Coker, Jr.)
Department: Court Reform - Signs we need in post 9/11 America (Writer with Nathan Fox)
Department: Poster chide
MAD Magazine #455July 2005
- New books by your favorite conservative authors (Writer with Hermann Mejia, Scott Bricher)
MAD Magazine #461January 2006
- 3. There goes the bride: Jennifer Wilbanks says "Adieu" (Writer with Charlie Kadau, Scott Bricher)
Department: The MAD 20 - The dumbest people, events and things of 2005! - 4. Russel Crowe's Telephone Tantrum: Dial "M" for moron (Writer with Liz Lomax, Irving Schild)
Department: The MAD 20 - The dumbest people, events and things of 2005!
MAD Magazine #465May 2006
- The Fundalini Pages: "Breaking News from the World of Sports", "Fundalini Health & Healings Ads", "Take your daughter to work day in Iraq", "The Godfrey Report", "Now Playing: The Blog", "Bitterman", "The Cover we didn't use", "Graphic Novel Review: The exhaustively uncondensed Hagar the Horrible 1973-2006", "Saddam sez", Vey to go!" (Author with P.C. Vey, Simon Rich, Desmond Devlin, Irving Schild, Steve Smallwood, Darren Johnson, Kevin Pope, Jim Mahfood, Garth Gerhart, Josh Eiserike, Angelo Torres, Scott Bricher)
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
MAD Magazine #473January 2007
- 2. Bode Miller at the Olympics - It is all downhill from beer (Writer with Charlie Kadau, AP/Wide World Photos, Scott Bricher)
Department: The MAD 20 dumbest people, events and things of 2006
MAD Magazine #476April 2007
- Tips for a successful hanging (Writer with Dave Croatto, Tim Hamilton)
Department: All the noose that is fit to print
MAD Magazine #490July 2008
- Super Delegate (Writer with Robert Sikoryak)
Department: Washington DC Comics
MAD Magazine #500June 2009
- MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles" (Author with Paul Peter Porges, Sam Viviano, Larry Siegel, Charlie Kadau, Dave Berg, Phil Hahn, Harry North, Don Edwing, Frank Jacobs, Jack Davis, Carolyn Abram, Thomas Hachtman, Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Angelo Torres, Greg Theakston, George Woodbridge, Sergio Aragonés, Tom Koch, Jack Rickard, John Ficarra, Russ Cooper, Arnie Kogen, Gerry Gersten, Harvey Kurtzman, Desmond Devlin, Antonio Prohias, Richard Williams, Bob Clarke, Stan Hart, Bill Elder, Paul Coker, Jr., Rick Tulka, Irving Schild, Al Jaffee, Dick DeBartolo, John Pound)
Department: MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles" - MAD issues 301-400 "The rush to antietam" (Author with Desmond Devlin, Sergio Aragonés, Jonathan Bresman, Bob Clarke, Michael Gallagher, John Ficarra, Tom Bunk, Brian Farrelly, Arnie Kogen, Al Jaffee, Sam Viviano, Andrew J. Schwartzberg, John Caldwell, Bill Wray, Dick DeBartolo, Tom Koch, Irving Schild, Don Edwing, Dave Berg, Anthony Barbieri, Henry Clark, Frank Santopadre, Frank Jacobs, Jack Davis, Angelo Torres, Sean Eisenporth, Arie Kaplan, Peter Sun, George Woodbridge, Gerry Gersten, Stan Hart, Mort Drucker, James Bennett, Rick Tulka, Bob Staake, Drew Friedman, Paul Coker, Jr., Sean Farrelly, Tom Cheney, Peter Kuper, Mark Stutzman, James Warhola, Mike Snider, Kevin Pope, Charlie Kadau)
- MAD issues 401-500 "Beginnings" (Author with Ray Alma, Drew Friedman, Mike Snider, Scott Maiko, Kenny Byerly, Peter Bagge, Scott Sonneborn, Irving Schild, Bill Wray, Hermann Mejia, Sergio Aragonés, Sam Sisco, Marc Hempel, Russ Cooper, Mort Drucker, Arie Kaplan, Jeff Kruse, Charlie Kadau, Peter Kuper, Josh Malinow, Sean Farrelly, Mark Fredrickson, Richard Williams, Scott Bricher, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, John Caldwell, Paul Coker, Jr., Desmond Devlin, Stan Sinberg, P.C. Vey, Anthony Barbieri, Dave Croatto, Al Jaffee, Timothy Shamey, Brian Farrelly, Jack Syracuse, Angelo Torres, 3/Design Studios, Roberto Parada, Tom Richmond, Tom Bunk, Arnie Kogen, Rick Tulka, Dick DeBartolo)
MAD Magazine #549February 2018
- Editor (with Charlie Kadau, Dave Croatto)
- 3 United Airlines' Passenger Removal (Writer with Charlie Kadau)
Department: The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2017
MAD Magazine #550April 2018
- Senior Editor (with Charlie Kadau, Dave Croatto)
- The Mad Sports Pages (Writer with Anton Emdin, Charlie Kadau)



