It's happened! I got to cohost a night of movies satires with the amazing Robert Osborne.

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It was night I'll never forget. Co-hosting with the man who knows just about everything about movies, Robert Osborne. My Turner Classic Movie night was Wednesday, October 9th. We talked about and showed four great satirical movies. The evening started at 8 PM EDT (5 PM, West Coast Time) and ended about 2:30AM EDT / 11:30 PDT.

It took a few years to happen, but I finally got to sit in one those plush red leather chairs with one of my long-time idols, Robert Osborne.

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Seems someone has uploaded the intros and the outtros to each film on YouTube here, but I don't know for how long they'll be there: http://tinyurl.com/TCM-DickDe

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Here's the schedule and the movies we showed.

8:00 PM EDT/ 5:00 PM PDT
Love And Death (1975)
A devout coward vows to assassinate Napoleon in the name of love.
Dir: Woody Allen Cast:  Woody Allen , Diane Keaton , Georges Adet .

9:30 PM EDT / 6:30 PDT
Murder by Death (1976)
A criminal madman invites the world's greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder. Dir: Robert Moore Cast: Peter Falk, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, David Niven, many other film greats.

11:15 PM EDT / 8:15 PDT
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
A cowboy drifts into a lawless town and brings things back together.
Dir: Burt Kennedy Cast:  James Garner , Joan Hackett , Walter Brennan .

1:00 AM EDT / 10 PM PDT
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
A filmmaker documents the history of Spinal Tap, the world's loudest rock band.
Dir: Rob Reiner Cast:  Harry Shearer , Christopher Guest , Michael McKean and more funny folks.

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Before each movie, I got to explain why I liked that particular satire. All these movies are satires, as opposed to just comedies. In doing some research for this appearance I found an interesting fact (I'm assuming it's a fact) posted by a die-hard MAD fan. It seems of all the Usual Gang of Idiots, I've written the most movie satires. That's 145 of them, or 31.87% of all the published MAD movie satires.
Even though all the movie satires I picked are in color, I thought a black & white picture w/Robert fit in with my (and our) love of old B&W movies. (Photo at very top of this page.)  Hope you were able to join us that night. I did get quite a few emails during the movies and into the next day. It was great to hear from many folks from the past, (one I haven't heard from in 30 years!) who tuned in and found me sitting in one of the famous red leather chairs.