Nothing says Christmas than a cartoon starring a Depression-era orphan in a shack unexpectedly getting presents from Santa Claus. Harman and...

Before he cracked up Harvey Korman on The Carol Burnett Show , before he bumbled around with Joe Flynn on McHale’s Navy , Tim Conway had an...

Jack Benny had several stage names before Benny Rubin (so goes one version of the story) suggested Ben Kubelsky change his name to Jack Benn...

Is there any doubt that Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf was the most popular song written for a cartoon short in the 1930s? It was compos...

The Dover Boys is yet another Chuck Jones cartoon where oodles has been written about it (including by Jones himself on numerous occasions)...

Your Safety First is a cartoon that looks into the future before The Jetsons did, and uses some of the same futuristic ideas for the sake ...

Henny Youngman was on the air making them laugh in 1937. He was still doing it almost 60 years later. And I’ll bet he was using the same jok...

As he got further and further into his tenure at MGM, Tex Avery didn’t waste time when pulling gags, and didn’t waste animation if he didn’t...

Breaking the fourth wall? Felix the cat did it in the silent era all the time. Here’s one of many examples. This scene is from The Oily Bir...

The U.S. government spent money to get you to give them your money to invest. There are film examples galore where the government urges Ame...