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Today's LAT's piece on the challenges facing performing chimps confirms a theory that we'd long held: Celebrities and monkeys aren't really all that different after all. Consider the parallels: Chimps of a mature age have a hard time finding work, their jobs are increasingly threatened by improvements in computer graphics, and once in a while, they go nuts and kill people. (Though, we must admit, with a far lower success rate for escaping punishment, but much of that difference can be written off to a star's superior ability to obtain good legal counsel.) Look for the E! network to suddenly switch to an all-chimp format in the next month or so, with a vast increase in quality of programming. And if they can figure out a way to bleach one safely, that guy on the Michael Jackson trial reenactment show could be out of a job as early as tomorrow.