Allen’s Alley is what comes to mind when Fred Allen’s radio show is discussed. But the programme evolved over the years and the Alley was a ...

Tex Avery said (paraphrased) that if you gave him an idea and a string of gags, he could make a cartoon. That certainly describes what he d...

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...