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Wednesday, 21 August 2019

Howard Morris, Crocodile and Comic Genius

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What’s Howard Morris best known for? There may not be one answer to that question. Morris was a second banana with Sid Caesar in the 1950s,...
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Tuesday, 20 August 2019

How Rubber Hose Runs

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Gerald Mc Boing Boing’s father rushes in a panic to the phone after hearing his son make sound effects instead of speaking words. Because th...
Monday, 19 August 2019

Butt Walk

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The story of Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952) is one Tex Avery used several times: character A does something to get character B to make noise to wak...
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Sunday, 18 August 2019

Jack Benny, Jail Bird

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Even when Jack Benny’s radio show was based in New York, it didn’t stay there. Benny’s deal with General Foods was that he could make person...
Saturday, 17 August 2019

The Troubled Composer

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He was a cartoon music composer who saved a life and took another. His own. Eugene Poddany is probably best known to classic cartoon fans ...
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Friday, 16 August 2019

Evil Woody

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Here’s another neck-ring take from a Woody Woodpecker cartoon. This is from The Barber of Seville directed by Shamus Culhane. Woody exit...
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Thursday, 15 August 2019

Casanova Cat Take

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Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera pull a Tex Avery in Casanova Cat . No, I don’t mean the tacky blackface gag. Here are a few frames from an Avery...
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Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Mommy, Where Do Jokes Come From?

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There’s a problem with telling topical jokes. There is only a limited number of topics to go around. So the same topics are joked about over...
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Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Crazy, Darn Fool Duck

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It’s another glorious moment in a Warner Bros. cartoon. Porky Pig pulls out the script for the cartoon and protests to Daffy Duck that what ...
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