Foghorn Leghorn occurs as big animated adult rooster appearing in many Warner Brothers cartoons. He foremost appeared around 1946 in a Henery Hawk film entitled Walky Talky Hawky. Foghorn Leghorn is considered the important Looney Tunes character, whose sidekick/nemesis was The Barnyard Pooch. Numerous of a gags required Panama hat & the pooch trying to outdo & punish every more.

His voice was created by actor Mel Blanc, heavily patterned fallowing a character of Senator Claghorn, the blusterous southern politician world health organization was a regular character on the Fred Allen radio show. Senator Claghorn was created & voiced by radio comedian Kenny Delmar. Foghorn Leghorn utilized the total of Claghorn's catchphrase, prefer "That's a joke... I say, that's a joke, son". A information to Senator Claghorn were visible to lot of a audience whenever the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons number one premiered, however rather numerous of the information around WB cartoons of the era, it develop since be dated and "go over the heads" of virtually all modern-contemporary audiences.

The leghorn is a breed of chicken, and foghorn describes the character's loudly, overbearing voice. At its virtually all raucous, it sounds similar to Blanc's Yosemite Sam.

Completely of the motion picture Foghorn Leghorn cartoons were directed by Robert McKimson.