Friz Freleng and Tex Avery both remarked how they had to stop the comedy in Merrie Melodies cartoons and fit in a Warners-owned song. The 1...

The Horn Blows at Midnight may, or may not, have been a lousy movie, but Jack Benny’s writers got an awful lot of mileage out of it. The fi...

Animated television commercials in the 1950s had great designs, clever copy and fine voice-overs. They were made, for the most part, by arti...

Schoolboy Bimbo (wearing glasses so the teacher won’t hit him) grabs a banjo and strums the old chestnut “School Days” in the finale of the ...

A bulldog grabs onto Oswald the rabbit, who is trying to grab a roast chicken cooling on a window sill in Weary Willies (1929). The dog ...

Jerry Colonna will always be associated with Bob Hope, but another comedian gave him his big break. Colonna was a mainstay on Hope’s radio ...

At one time on the radio, there were “cross-over songs,” where a tune designed for one audience would also find another audience. Some count...

Aloha Hooey is said to be a cartoon Tex Avery started before he left Warner Bros. and was finished by Bob Clampett directing his unit. It’...