It’s a pity that Bud Handelsman, who died in 2007, isn’t around to celebrate the two hundredth birthday of Charles Dickens. If Bud were alive, he would have celebrated it with a cartoon.

The actor, who once even had his own Saturday morning NBC cartoon, will host DIY Network’s “I Pity the Tool,” a nod to his “A-Team” character’s catchphrase “I pity the fool.” ...