The Carnival of the Animals and xylophone. From the beginning, Saint-Saëns regarded the work as a piece of fun. On 9 February 1886 he wrote to his publishers Durand in Paris that he was composing a work for the coming Shrove Tuesday, and confessing that he knew he should be working on his Third Symphony, but that this work was "such fun" (). He had apparently intended to write the work for his students at the École Niedermeyer, but it was first performed at a private concert given by the cellist Charles Lebouc on Shrove Tuesday, 9 March 1886. A second (private) performance was given
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals with new material. (Bugs, unlike most of the other regular Looney Tunes characters, had not appeared in any of the outsourced productions distributed under the Warner Bros. banner from 1964 to 1969.) Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig Michael Tilson Thomas as Himself "Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals" is available on VHS, but this television special was also released on the "" DVD along with "Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over" and "Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales". Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (originally aired as