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An entertaining short about a very strange couple – an underweight ex-clown who has hit the bottle, and a monkey who isn’t really a monkey.
Merton D. Kamal returns home, his career as a clown in the doldrums, to find his mother has set him up for a job with an insurance firm. Trouble is, the person interviewing is someone he ‘knew’ back in his schooldays. However, his appearance is timely, as his clown persona can be used to transport a ‘monkey’ to Roswell. But the cigarette-smoking, talking ‘monkey’ is quite clear that Roswell is not where he wants to be…