The Jack Benny-Fred Allen Feud was supposed to end after about 2½ months with a broadcast in New York in March 1937, but audiences liked it,...

I like Tex Avery cartoons. Lots of other people do, too. It’s cool that Tex lived long enough hear the appreciation of his work (mainly a...

“The Greatest Man in Siam” shows how fast he is. He shoots an arrow, which cuts to him running, skidding to a stop, magically growing an app...

A snake gets a mischievous idea in Insultin’ the Sultan , a 1934 Ub Iwerks cartoon. The snake rubs up against Willie Whopper’s leg. Gars...

Game shows have several appeals which have made them evergreens on TV (and on radio before that). We like to guess along with the contestant...

Spike thinks he can get rid of the title character in Garden Gopher (1950) by clobbering him with a sledgehammer. The rodent outsmarts him ...

Backgrounds of Warner Bros. cartoons occasionally had inside gags in them. It looks like there’s one here in this painting from Saddle Silly...

Besides helping himself to a bigger pay envelope starting at the end of 1948, Jack Benny was helping others, too. Granted, the tax departme...

One of the more delightful books taking readers through someone’s personal history in the days of the great theatrical cartoons was “Life Be...

The designs are the highlight of my favourite John Sutherland cartoon, Destination Earth (1956). But there’s fun in the dialogue in that wh...