Dick Clark Productions made a tidy sum from people loving other people’s mistakes. Clark is not only the man known for hosting American Ban...

Tom is suspicious when he hears growling noises coming from a bulldog that’s he’s drugged in Quiet Please . It turns out to be Jerry imitati...

If June Foray were with us, she’d be celebrating her 101st birthday today. Alas, she died just before she could turn 100. Let’s celebrate f...

Babe Ruth likely wasn’t impressed with how he was caricatured in the Ub Iwerks’ cartoon Play Ball (1933). He has a pig nose. Ruth did ha...

There was a knock on Jack Benny when he started his career that his gags weren’t “television”. Some critics seemed to think verbal gags were...

Max Fleischer took out a patent on the rotoscope in 1915 and within a few years he found a good use for it. The first “Out of the Inkwell” c...

What was one of the great animators of the Walt Disney studio doing in 1950? This: This is Multiple Screening , a live action/animation s...

Tom gets hit on by a telephone operator who comes out of his candlestick phone’s earpiece in Trouble , a 1931 effort by the Van Beuren studi...

Forget that “Mary Ann or Ginger” thing. Who would you pick—Betty Boop or Olive Oyl? The best part about that is you’d be picking the same p...

What happens when the insultee gets the best of the insulter? That question was answered in several columns by comic Joey Adams for Family ...