A knock at the door. A wolf’s arms twist around before he decides to see who is there. Now the running gag. A mama duck pokes the eyes of...

Jack Benny had a very good idea of why he was a success. He expounded on it for years in the press. Here’s an example from March 10, 1963. T...

Political cartoons have existed in newspapers for generations. Animated political cartoons? A little more rare simply because of the expense...

You can tell Shamus Culhane’s directing things in Boogie Woogie Man (1943). He’s got characters poking heads and other things toward the ca...

“Confidentially, folks,” Daffy Duck says to viewers of Daffy’s Southern Exposure , “I ain’t goin’ south this winter. I’m goin’ to stay arou...

Old-Time radio wasn’t merely Bing crooning, Fibber McGee opening a closet, H.V. Kaltenborn with the news, or someone on Ma Perkins getting a...

Smiling pocket watches are about to open and close in time to the music in The Clock Store . But there’s an inside joke here. One watch c...

Dinosaur Dan, the first Texas Bad Man, runs out of bullets. No matter. He uses his finger to fire at the posse chasing him. It’s not exac...

Jack Benny had a little message at the end of his broadcasts when he was out of Los Angeles in the late ‘30s-early ’40s. “Good night, Joani...

Painting sets for cockroaches probably isn’t very satisfying. Especially if you don’t have the full spectrum of Technicolors because Walt Di...