In November 1953, MGM Records came out with a kids tale, ‘Tom and Jerry Meet Santa Claus.’ As neither Tom or Jerry spoke, the label brought ...

Tex Avery dug out some familiar gags to toss into the final Screwy Squirrel cartoon, ‘Lonesome Lenny’ (1946). The whole ‘Of Mice and Men’ ro...

I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise that in 1965, Jack Benny was looking back at his career an awful lot in interviews. After all, he had b...

All-star pictures fell on North American movie theatres in World War Two as often as bombs on Berlin. And not all of the pictures bombed. He...

The at-times rancorous debate whether all exaggerated impressions of non-white people are racist (and, conversely, why exaggerated impressio...

Daffy Duck looks fairly normal while on the phone as Duck Twacy in ‘The Great Piggy Bank Robbery’ (1946). But then he stretches out in a few...

Jack Paar was a whiner. I’m not referring to how he walked out on his late night TV audience because NBC censored his joke about a water clo...

It’s a real disappointment that a cartoon featuring cartoon writers Tedd Pierce and Mike Maltese playing themselves isn’t funny. But that de...

One after another, Tex Avery comes at you with a stream of variations on a gag in ‘Bad Luck Blackie,’ one of his best cartoons. You know the...

“Dean Martin put the ‘moan’ in ‘testimonial’,” a Hollywood observer once yowped. There was a time when you couldn’t get away from Dean Marti...