Great Moments in Comedy History

by Harmon Leon

Jane Goodall is the world’s foremost authority on chimpanzees, having
closely observed their behavior for the past quarter century, living in the chimps’
environment and gaining their confidence. But did you know she is one of the grand masters of prankdom in both the comedy and anthropology world?

Chimpanzee life was still a mystery in 1957, when 23-year old Goodall arrived in Kenya to realize her dream of studying chimpanzees; an animal who could give us a window into our own beginnings. Goodall set up a banana-laden feeding station designed to lure the apes out into the open. But they still refused to accept the young researcher into their troop. Thinking fast, Goodall remembered a stunt she saw once at a local zoo back home and threw her feces at one of the chimps.

The chimps loved it! They busted out into a gaggle of chimp laughter, immediately accepting Goodall as one of their own. Through the throwing of her own fecal waste, Goodall not only unraveled own of nature’s great mysteries, but also pulled a prank that transcended both human and primate, illustrating that apes and human’s aren’t so different after all, due to their shared love of a chimp getting hit in the face with a clump of poo.

Hat’s Off To Jane Goodall: Unraveler of the mysteries of the chimp world… and one funny son-of-a-b*tch!