Popular Culture References
Colonna was a popular radio and film figure at the same time that Warner Bros. cartoons hit their stride. Accordingly, his facial expressions and catch phrases were often caricatured in the cartoons. Along with "Greetings, Gates!" variations and references to "Yehudi", there was his oft-used observation, "Ah, yes!, isn't it?!"
- The Warner cartoons The Wacky Worm and Greetings Bait both star a worm who is a Colonna caricature, complete with moustache and exaggerated voice (supplied by Mel Blanc). The latter cartoon also features an animated human Colonna as a fisherman.
- In What's Cookin' Doc?, Bugs Bunny is saying "Hi" to various (unseen) Hollywood figures as they walk by his table at the Oscar banquet, and Bugs mimics them. At one point he bugs his eyes, opens his mouth wide to display squared-off, gapped teeth, and says, "Ah! Greetings, Jerry!".
- A jury of Jerry Colonnas featured in the cartoon Daffy Doodles.
- Jerry Colonna was one of the partygoing celebrities in the Warner cartoon Hollywood Steps Out.
- In 1999, Jeff MacKay portrayed Colonna in the JAG episode "Ghosts of Christmas Past."
- Colonna was mentioned in Jack Kerouac's 1950s novel On the Road.
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
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“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
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