A mouse who has terrorised a lion into insanity scratches his head. “There’s one thing that still bothers me,” he confides in the audience w...

One joke, two people. One person laughs. Another person gets offended. That’s something which happened to Jack Benny in 1938. The Benny ra...

UPA started out as an industrial filmmaker during World War Two and veered off into entertainment cartoons in the late 1940s because company...

A Day at the Zoo (1939) features Gil Warren as a narrator but there are always gags in a Tex Avery cartoon where dialogue is unnecessary. ...

The opening shot of the Popeye cartoon For Better or Worser (released in 1935) is a pan up the sailor’s apartment building. I can’t snip it...

“Only the certifiably embalmed will fail to laugh out loud several times along its outrageous way,” is how the New York Times ended its rev...

After an establishing shot of an antique shop in The Helpful Genie (1951), director Connie Rasinski cuts to a shot of a dog and cat being t...

There were great finger artists at Warner Bros. Ken Harris and Virgil Ross both did an expert job of Bugs Bunny moving and twisting his fing...

Ol’ Buck Benny needed to do more than blaze a six-shooter if’n he were to rout those mangy varmints on the other networks. In the 1958-59 s...

The middle 1940s were pretty much a golden time for the MGM cartoon studio. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera kept batting out Tom and Jerrys and p...