Satire and the radio industry have never been a good match, as satirists have discovered. Satire has a point of view. People who disagree wi...

The corner of Hollywood and Vine greets viewers at the opening of “Hollywood Daffy” (1946). A pan down from the street sign shows the inevit...

Here’s another “What’s Jack Benny really like” newspaper feature, this time from the weekend magazine supplement Radio and Screen Weekly of...

In the 1950s, UPA was the darling of film critics and movie columnists who were wont to write about animated cartoons, thanks to a little bo...

Happy Homer Brightman tries a Tex Avery gag in “The Great Who-Dood-It,” a 1952 Woody Woodpecker cartoon. We’ve all seen how Wolfie tries t...

Betty Boop gets a birthday cake delivered to her in “Betty Boop’s Birthday Party” (1933). Being a Fleischer cartoon, it’s only natural the c...

Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding filled the airwaves in the 1950s with some pretty funny (and biting) parodies and satires. The question isn’t “...

If you can’t quote Elmer Fudd from this frame in “A Wild Hare” (1940), you’re on the wrong blog. This may not have the manic energy of Te...

If it weren’t for the bright colours, and the jeep in front, this might look like a background from an early Hanna-Barbera cartoon. There...

Here’s an ad from Variety announcing the start of the Looney Tunes series in 1930. Great layout. Sorry for the low resolution. The trade...