Jack Benny’s leap into television in fall 1950 might strike today’s audiences as unusual. For one thing, Benny had no intention to be on eve...

Mickey Mouse whistles and plays animals as musical instruments in Steamboat Willie , but there’s one thing he doesn’t do. Talk. As 1928 tu...

No rodents or insects jump in and make an aside comment. Furniture doesn’t sing. No, Betty Boop’s When My Ship Comes In (1934) is a pretty ...

“There goes one of the new five horsepower jobs,” says the narrator in Tex Avery’s Field and Scream (released in 1955). Then comes the visu...

Did you ever have a blog post that you were SURE you put up but discovered it had disappeared? In this case, perhaps the post was cancelled...

A customer at Heckle and Jeckle’s Indigestion Inn looks forward to a bowl of beans “Mexican style” in Blue Plate Symphony (1954). “Mexic...

Jack King wasn’t the Komedy King at Warner Bros. (It was apparently funny at one time to substitute a “K” in words that started with a “C”)....

The Jack Benny radio show had its tiffs with the head of the American Federation of Musicians, James Caesar Petrillo (not pictured to the ri...

It’s really tempting to make assumptions because it saves a lot of work. But you can get burned. To the right, you see a 1916 photo from t...

A “Censored” sign doesn’t really censor the gag in Tex Avery’s Slap Happy Lion . We know what the mouse is going to do. It’s hard to catc...