A Star is Bored

Friz Freleng, A Star is Bored, USA 1956

If you got to go, you go BIG. 

Bugs, in this short, is living the high life. Interviewed by famed reporter as his shorts just get bigger and bigger, Bugs still manages to stay humble. Daffy Duck, on the other, is pushing a broom around the set and grew more resentful with each push. 

Throwing his broom down, Daffy marches into the casting director's office and demands a part. He gets one, specifically he is to be Bugs' new stunt double. Daffy thinks this is his chance to outact Bugs and steal the show. 

The first short is a Western with Yosemite Sam. Daffy, thinking he's about to show up Bugs, gets shot in the face by Sam. 

The next short is an Elmer Fudd short. Daffy sees this as the perfect to get revenge on Bugs, so he knocks out Elmer. While Bugs is perched on a tree branch, Daffy opts to saw the entire branch off. Pity this causes the tree he's holding to fall while Bugs stays safely suspended. 

The next short, Bugs offers to do the scene himself to give Daffy a break. The duck refuses and is promptly eaten by a giant fish. 

So it goes; utterly wonderful and this is one of the few shorts were Bugs works with Daffy, Elmer, and Yosemite Sam at the same time. Daffy is the real star here as his building rage and mishaps make Bugs the straight man here and it works.