An almost fatal car accident didn’t stop Mel Blanc. (You can read an account about it in this Yowp post ). He continued recording voices f...

Careers on television take detours, even for someone as venerable as Walter Cronkite. Uncle Walter wasn’t quite as venerable in 1954 as he ...

One of the many running jokes on the Jack Benny radio show was singer Dennis Day had two shows (and that somehow made him—“HA!”—superior). ...

Joyce Randolph was the fourth wheel on The Honeymooners . Unfortunately, that made her the fifth wheel. Jackie Gleason was the star. Art Ca...

The “King of Hearts” turned out to be a man who was hopelessly inept at lady-killing on network radio, but had a long and loving marriage in...

Mention Angela Lansbury’s name and many will think of Murder, She Wrote . Some will think of her warbling in Disney films such as Beauty and...

TV workloads. Bob Hope. A new, old violin. Those were some of the topics Jack Benny discussed with syndicated columnist Earl Wilson, who mad...

Entertainers did their part during the World War Two. Some enlisted. Others entertained. Jack Benny was in the latter category. He toured t...

Muriel Landers was nicknamed “the fastest ton in the West.” People weren’t too subtle back then. (Though considering the rudeness and cruden...

“The only thing I can turn on around my house without getting Morey Amsterdam,” Fred Allen once declared, “is the water faucet.” Allen m...

Here’s some Broadway trivia: When Hans Conried left the cast of “Can-Can” in 1954, he was replaced by George S. Irving. Conried didn’t set...