The cat has swallowed the canary in Counterfeit Cat . Spike the dog figures it out. The cat manages to distract Spike with a bone throu...

A jug-eared man steps to the microphone at the “end” of a radio soap opera and yelps “Time Marches On.” The visage was likely familiar to s...

A number of tales have grown up around Jack Benny—in some cases, repeated by Benny himself—which simply are not true. One is that his first ...

It was 1936. Ub Iwerks was in trouble. Iwerks’ Animated Pictures Corporation in the Rees Building at 9713 Santa Monica Blvd. had one cartoo...

Buzz Buzzard is apparently talking to us but all we hear is unintelligible noises that don’t match the mouth movements at the start of Wet B...

California’s weather became a tired subject for radio comedy writers in the ‘40s. And in cartoons, too. In Half-Pint Pygmy , George is rea...

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In was running out of steam by the start of the 1971-72 season. The show had taken some old vaudeville jokes, marr...

I have no idea what the title of this post means. They’re lyrics in Willie Whopper’s Robin Hood, Jr. , made by Ub Iwerks and released in 193...