How strong were the gags in a Mickey Mouse cartoon? The earliest Mickeys, I like. Once the ‘30s started rolling along, things get really la...

Something didn’t seem right. It was 1986. La Cage aux Folles was in performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver and the ads pr...

You’ve likely read that Jack Benny made his radio debut on an Ed Sullivan radio show in 1932. Jack made the claim himself. It’s wrong. He ma...

John Sutherland Productions was an off-shoot of a company Sutherland and fellow ex-Disneyite Larry Morey set up that made “Daffy Dittys” sh...

There was a time there weren’t “universes,” a time when it was special when one cartoon character crossed over into another character’s ani...

Betty Boop’s Prize Show is her version of an 1890s Western melodrama, except she is performing it as a play in a small town theatre. This ...

If you’re going to be insulted by anyone, you couldn’t find too many people better than Groucho Marx. "The One, The Only" did it ...

Dancing butterfly. Dancing bear. Dancing flowers. Not exactly something you’d find in a Felix the Cat cartoon, but that’s what we get in Ap...

The puns are almost non-stop in The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945). “You know,” says Droopy to the viewers. “I think the dealer is crooked.” ...

No story gripped the radio columns—and some news columns, too—at the end of 1948 than CBS buying Jack Benny’s company Amusement Enterprises,...