A dog and an orang-utan have forged an unlikely friendship at an animal sanctuary.
Suriya the orang-utan and Roscoe the bluetick coonhound palled up after meeting at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Most dogs avoid apes, but Roscoe is happy to swim and play alongside Suriya and even lets his hairy friend take him for walks.

Their bond is so strong that US chat show queen Oprah Winfrey is set to feature them in a special show called Amazing Animal Friendship.

Dr Bhagavan Antle, founder of the centre, said: "Roscoe looked really thin and a little lost so we fed him and took care of him. He followed us through the gate and ran over and found Suriya.

"As soon as he saw Roscoe, Suriya ran over to him and they started playing. It was unusual because dogs are usually scared of primates but they took to each other straight away."
(from ITN news)

This isn't the Phil Donahue who had his own chat show in the 80s, right?

I love how everyone has basically the same reaction: LOL, but not sure why, exactly.

If I can ruin the humor by laboriously explaining why I think it's funny, then. It's charming in the way that it mirrors a large-scale morning chat show, but is the lowest scale possible. It's like these lovely people are doing what they think a morning show is supposed to be (right down to the "Thanks, Arthur"), but there's no real reason for it (does anyone in Haiti really need to know that "Pretty much everywhere it's going to be hot"). Add to that the guy's delayed, great laugh and you have yourself a complex, short and funny as hell slice of video heaven.

We have a smaller portion of this (part of the diner scene) here, but this is the whole clip without distracting laughter from a chat show studio audience.

(Ugly Betty fans: Maggie may look familiar to you.)

Agreed. I think the bookers assumed that he would do wacky and inspired things by virtue of the treadmill video. Instead, he simply answered what he was asked.

With the exception of John Lennon, musicians are rarely great chat show guests.


*discard