Friz Freleng used Tex Avery’s format and a few of his standard gags in his spot-gag short Sports Chumpions . He also borrowed Tex’s name. ...

Jack Benny was a great actor. People listened to his radio show and some of them believed it was a documentary, the real life Jack Benny. I...

Little Kitty doesn’t want to go out in front of the classroom to recite “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and gets shoved onto the makeshift stage in...

A couple of related radio references highlight the ho-hum Hardaway/Dalton effort Hobo Gadget Band , released by Warner Bros. in1939. Hobos ...

“I was going mad, insane, out of my head, cracking up, crazy, cuckoo!” says the tormented cat to himself, and the realises it’s the cuckoo c...

Resting prone on a tiger-skin rug and purring about some hair product isn’t the accepted model to make your TV career take off. Unless you’...

Paul Terry was sure obsessed with two things in the early sound days—mice and cycles. He’s littered Club Sandwich with them. The year is ...

The great thing about the Fleischer cartoons was something unexpectedly coming to life and pulling off some odd gag. I wish it happened mor...

Several members of Jack Benny’s staff would show up on his radio show and one of them actually made the jump to television. Jeanette Eymann...

Some of the cleverest and best-looking animation in the 1950s was on TV commercials. There were top-flight small houses on both coasts wher...