The Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor short Sinbad the Sailor tries to end with a gag involving exploding cigars. First, Sinbad, then his parrot are cau...

George Burns and Jack Benny were practically lifetime friends. The two first crossed paths in vaudeville in the early 1920s. In 1974, Jack g...

The 1960s were just horrible for theatrical cartoons. If your local movie house ran them at all, you were subjected to Honey Halfwitch, Cool...

There’s humour—intentional and unintentional—in cartoons made by New York’s C-list studio, Van Beuren. In Mad Melody (1931), notice what h...

In his Bobby Sox days, there were some standard jokes about Frank Sinatra. One of them was how unhealthily thin and anaemic he was. Tex Aver...

Tennessee Ernie Ford may have been the only person whose TV show lost a potential sponsor because of his name. He was hosting a revival of ...

A starfish decides to stay stuck on Tom’s head in Surf-Board Cat (1967). And look! He turns into Jimmy Durante, complete with show-biz play...

Bugs Bunny pulls off a Danny Kaye-like scat routine in Hot Cross Bunny , a cartoon directed by Bob McKimson and written by Warren Foster (wh...