Coronet Films is known best known for films telling weenie-roast-loving “swell” teenagers to change their behavior, maybe using a list. But ...

Christmas is a time of giving, the cliché goes, and one person who knew that was Jack Benny. It seems every time I look up what Jack was do...

60 years ago, Christmas fell on Saturday. And you know what that meant in 1965. Cartoons on TV! Christmas cartoons fell into two categories...

Why is a chicken carrying an umbrella on a frozen pond? No, this isn’t a joke. And there isn’t really a joke in this scene from the Terryto...

Barney Bear matches wits with a silent snowshoe rabbit in The Bear and the Hare , a 1948 MGM release from the Mike Lah/Preston Blair unit. ...

Allen’s Alley is what comes to mind when Fred Allen’s radio show is discussed. But the programme evolved over the years and the Alley was a ...

Tex Avery said (paraphrased) that if you gave him an idea and a string of gags, he could make a cartoon. That certainly describes what he d...

Charlie Dog had a routine where he was “50%” various kinds of dogs and enthusiastically went into cliché gags about different breeds ( Often...

If you, 60 years ago, were at the Priscilla Beach Theatre in Massachusetts and watched a teenager on stage in the play “Enter Laughing,” you...

Although Felix the Cat is my favourite silent film star, the work of the Fleischer studio in that era is creative and enjoyable. I’m not re...