Question: In Bosko’s Holiday , why is the dog licking a tire? Answer: To set up a gag. The dog bites the tire and blows up like a balloon...

Jack Benny had incredible good fortune when it came to singers. Setting aside the Canada Dry show, which featured whatever vocalists the ba...

You likely watched animated cartoons on TV when you were growing up, including Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Mickey and/or Mighty Mouse. Putting old ...

Professor Crackpot tells us he bade his wife a fond farewell, but (and here’s the gag) she actually threw him out of the house. Here’s a ...

Rice-Puddin’ the Mad Monk believes he has escaped from angry villagers by turning his escape donkey into a helicopter in Wake Up the Gypsy I...

Orlando Sentinel "/> A pleasant half hour could be spent on a weekday afternoon in the 1960s watching four people in show business u...

The Fleischer studio did what it could to freshen the Betty Boop series. In a 1938 cartoon, we get an old Fleischer concept in the title— ...

Tex Avery sets up a scene in Ventriloquist Cat with two false starts, and then the gag. The premise of the short is the generic Avery cat ...