Charlie Dog had a routine where he was “50%” various kinds of dogs and enthusiastically went into cliché gags about different breeds ( Often...

If you, 60 years ago, were at the Priscilla Beach Theatre in Massachusetts and watched a teenager on stage in the play “Enter Laughing,” you...

Although Felix the Cat is my favourite silent film star, the work of the Fleischer studio in that era is creative and enjoyable. I’m not re...

It took the better part of a decade for the Jack Benny radio show to settle down with the main cast we remember best. If you think of Benny’...

Not many people have the versatility to narrate the Old Testament, the story of Nutralite, and the tale of Fox in Socks. And lend his voice...

Tex Avery’s first cartoon with Droopy was Dumb-Hounded (1943) and one where he pushed the boundaries of takes with the wolf (expanding even...

In the 1930s, the Leon Schlesinger studio had a story department and everyone would pitch gags for each cartoon. In some cases, it’s a wild ...

In every high-concept sitcom of the 1960s, the concept (a talking horse, a car that’s a dead mother, a wifey witch, a genie in a bottle) is ...

If you want to watch a Warner Bros. cartoon that isn’t a Warner Bros. cartoon, then seek out Columbia/Screen Gems’ 1947 epic Wacky Quacky . ...