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[Carrie McLaren <carrie AT stayfreemagazine.org>]

The New York Post
November 26, 2000, Sunday
by Clemente Lisi

CHIMP WILL APE LENO

Heeeere's Johnny - the chimp!

A Russian television company, made famous for bringing viewers topless news
anchors, is relaunching itself this week with a new talk show hosted by a
monkey.

The chimp, named Johnny, will interview Russian celebrities with the help
of a voice-over actor, tell jokes and quote Shakespeare.

The show, named Natural Selection by the Moscow-based M1 television
station, is part of its new season following the disastrous Ostankino
television tower fire in August, which put the popular it off the air for
more than a month.

The station's director Sergei Moskvin told the Moscow Times. "This is not
even an experiment - this is something totally new in the genre of the talk
show."

Johnny is expected to wear a white shirt, a yellow tie and a gray jacket.