Camels are funny-looking things, especially in cartoons. Probably the funniest-looking camel in a cartoon not made by Warner Bros. is in the...

Here’s an inside joke from Friz Freleng’s “Stage Door Cartoon.” Well, maybe it’s a sly editorial comment by someone in Freleng’s unit about ...

Fans of Old Time Radio have heard the story over and over, how Jack Benny first appeared on radio with Ed Sullivan in 1932, and what his fir...

No, this isn’t the name of a cartoon. I was doing some Felix hunting and found this article from the Victoria Advocate of March 6, 1927. Fe...

One of the best-known moments of revenge in animation history. “Chow Hound” is another product of the mind of writer Mike Maltese. The credi...

There’s a neat visual effect in several Chuck Jones cartoons. Someone zooms out of a scene and leaves multiples of something floating in the...

Fred Allen’s best-known radio routine was one that had a comparatively short life on his show—Allen’s Alley. It was Fred’s chance to satiris...

Anyone care to guess how many times Tex Avery pulled off this gag? This time, the body-leaking gag comes from “The Hick Chick” (1946). The b...

Michael Sasanoff had a short but productive career at the Leon Schlesinger studio, though much of his work was uncredited. Sasanoff, from wh...

It seems reporters and columnists had a check-list of things they had to mention in any of their stories about Jack Benny in the 1960s. They...