Most of us today didn’t grow up with network radio, but some of us grew up with the remnants of it through old animated cartoons. Radio show...

We posted about an inside gag in the 1933 Willie Whopper cartoon Spite Flight in this post. Here’s one from a similar cartoon, The Air Rac...

The King Size Canary realises the cat chasing him has grown. Here’s the gag Tex Avery and Heck Allen came up with. Walt Clinton, Ray Abra...

Somewhere close to 1 o’clock in the morning on December 31, 1936 (Eastern time), radio history was made. That’s when Fred Allen, in New York...

Mel Blanc didn’t only have a successful career. He had a successful marriage, too. He and his wife Estelle were together for 56 years. Thei...

“Man, my cars are clean!” insists shady auto dealer Buzz Buzzard. He opens the car door. It’s the old skunk gag. Buzz then pulls off one of ...

The two dogs hunting Lucky Ducky (from the Tex Avery cartoon of the same name) exit from the scene—in individual pieces. The Motion Pictu...

There weren’t too many newspaper columnists who had bad things to say about Jack Benny. About the worst it got was John Crosby and a few oth...

Ten-Pin Terrors (1953) features some good animation (the bulldog bowling at the start, Jeckle tapping his fingers against the bathtub at th...

“Did you notice,” reader Steve Bailey remarked, “the caricatures in the background of Yankee Doodle Daffy ?” No, I don’t think I have. It’s...