In 1930, he was a postal telegraph clerk. Little did he realise he would soon veer on a career change that would make him, well, partly famo...

Landing a gig on a successful, long-running sitcom (especially in syndicated reruns) is something most actors can only dream about. But tw...

A caterpillar separates and its parts do a dance in Playful Pan , a 1930 Walt Disney cartoon. Not very elaborate stuff but fun nonetheless. ...

It was on October 13, 1948 that he debuted at Le Ruban Bleu nightclub in New York City. Not too many months earlier, on June 20, 1948, anoth...

We get several different versions of “When My Dreamboat Comes Home” in the 1938 Warners cartoon The Penguin Parade . First, there’s a crooni...

It’s time for more of the wit and wisdom of Groucho Marx. He apparently didn’t have much left of either when he died in 1977. But here he i...

The cartoons Chuck Jones made at SIB Tower 12 had something in common with the cartoons Chuck Jones made at Leon Schlesinger’s studio in the...

Stupor Duck may be the best of the Bob McKimson/Tedd Pierce TV parodies. There are some good gags, and Pierce seems to find a little capper...

George Burns wrote a number of very funny books, and spent a good deal of time talking about his late wife Gracie and his late best friend J...

Bugs Bunny’s first cartoon, A Wild Hare , was nominated for an Oscar after being released in 1940. It didn’t win. None of the tremendously f...