As a teenager I was never quite sincere in any expressed admiration for the willowy models, actors and popstars that contemporary pop culture encouraged me to ape.
It would be unprofessional of me, however, to ape the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist and include no women in this story.
"It was great being back together again", Brown, aka The Boosh's Bollo the Ape, tells me.
We took it gently, of course, with me aping Robert's every turn, pressing hard with my downhill leg, struggling at times to keep a grip.
"Drummers ape each other.
I ape white gentlemanliness, in the hopes that my performance, will create presumptions of sophistication and sameness, invent social licence that will magically render me immune from violence.
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The set begins with the elastic groove of the INXS-aping Love Me, crescendos during Chocolate and, apart from a slightly self-indulgent interlude during If I Believe You in which a sax solo and slow-burning melody waft over a fidgety audience desperate for a singalong, it's a vibrant, energised performance.
By just working around wild animals in captivity, including three species of great apes, provides me with enough insight into the potential hazards in a zoo enclosure.
But these new pics of the overweight apes makes me think -- if it weren't for humans shoving food down their throats, if zoo visitors weren't pelting them with candy and caramel corn and whatever else they assume the animals might like -- these guys would be happy and healthy.
(She also, on "Save Me from Myself," apes Fiona Apple's quiet brand of self-torment).
