Network radio in the 1940s had a small group of actors constantly in demand for both dramatic and comedy shows. One of them was Joe Kearns. ...

Everyone knows about the almost-instantly huge eye takes that Tex Avery loved smacking the audience with. There’s a great one at the end of ...

A witch comes flying at the theatre audience in Minnie the Moocher , a 1932 Fleischer short that exists to highlight the title song as sung ...

Plainfield, New Jersey got almost as much publicity on the Jack Benny radio show as Waukegan, Illinois. Waukegan was Benny’s home town. Pl...

Cartoons make me happy. I’m sure they make you happy, too (well, good ones, anyway). I don’t need some professorial psychoanalysis to tell m...

Here he is, that noted silent film star—Walter Lantz. Long before Lantz hosted the Woody Woodpecker Show on TV, he co-starred on screen ...

You know a gag is coming but what’s it going to be? Disappointing, it turns out. In the climax scene of the ComiColor short The Brementown...

No amount of Shark Repellent Bat Spray could kill the shark over which Batman jumped entering its final TV season. The first sign of a toot...

Puns, parodies and impersonations fill the screen in Tex Avery’s Thugs With Dirty Mugs , a 1939 short for Warner Bros., but there’s an impre...

Warren Foster came up with two great foils for Bugs Bunny—Rocky and Muggsy, the bank robber and his henchman, after director Friz Freleng te...