Axel and his Dog, 1955

LOL...a dog names Towser and a cat named Talulah (who were each only a paw and a voice), and later, a nurse named Car-mine...these were Axel's cohorts in the treehouse, on Minneapolis' WCCO when we were kids.  We thought he was incredibly funny, but dad caught way more than we did, and often laughed in places we didn't.
In these two clips, you'll notice Axel taking his spyglass down to look thru it--that always meant it was time for a cartoon.  And Axel always ended his show with "Birdie with the jello bill"...a Robert Louis Stevenson poem, but Axel changed the last line to a bad pun.  THIS is humor!

(Thanks to the Bulletin Board column from the St Paul Pioneer Press this morning.  I wasn't aware that any episodes of Axel were still around.  Truly, he formed a good part of our senses of humor--ok, mine at least ☺)