Sid the Sexist plan was a non-starter and was unlikely to find a willing TV station to broadcast the show if it were written in the same style as the comic. Sid the Sexist Sid the Sexist (real name Sidney Aloysius Smutt) is a character from the British satirical comic "Viz", first appearing in issue 9 in October 1982. The strip was created and mostly drawn by Simon Donald until he left the magazine in 2003, when Paul Palmer took over as artist. According to Donald, "Sid is a man who is unable to communicate with women. He is desperate to impress them,
Recurring features in Mad (magazine) fullblown imaginary magazines, greeting cards, nursery rhymes, Christmas carols, song parodies and other poetry (including several versions of "Casey at the Bat"), comic strip takeoffs and others. The first page of each issue lists all the articles to follow, including their "Department" headings, which are plays on words. For example, a parody of a pizza chain's menu appeared under "The Passion of the Crust Department", while an article entitled "William Shakespeare, Sports Commentator" was part of "The Play-By-Play's the Thing Department". Long-running features had equally long-running headers: "Spy vs. Spy" is filed under the "Joke and Dagger Department", Dave Berg's