The difference between Fleischer and Disney cartoons? When Fleischer animals form into weird shapes, it’s usually the product of a nightmare...

Eddie Cantor had not one but two dialect comedians on his show in the mid-1930s. Barney Gorodetsky was better known as Bert Gordon, who was...

As Paul Frees’ relaxed voice lulls us into a sense of contentment, as Scott Bradley’s flutes and strings play a light version of “Over the R...

Grover Groundhog shines a lamp against the wall as a spotlight and does a snappy little song and dance at the start of “One Meat Brawl” (rel...

I haven’t had a TV set at home for years. I don’t miss it. Well, I’d miss it tomorrow because there’s a great programme coming to television...

It’s pure bunk that Jack Benny’s first appearance on radio was with Ed Sullivan in 1932, something the comedian claimed for years. But the e...

We all grew up with cartoons on TV. We couldn’t get enough of them. Worthless old theatrical cartoons suddenly found a new audience—millions...

Cartoon studios of the late ‘20s and early ‘30s loved taking advantage of the huge theatre screen and animated characters in extreme close-u...

“It looks like McGrip’s famous spitball,” says announcer John Wald in the Tex Avery cartoon “Batty Baseball.” And indeed it is, in a literal...

In hunting around for information for last week’s blog post about Lennie Weinrib, I came a CBS publicity drawing for one of the episodes of ...