J Fred Muggs 4

J Fred Muggs was a chimp who appeared regularly on the Today Show in its early days with Dave Garroway. According to one account I read, Muggs is credited with "saving" the Today Show back when "the now famous program was struggling to attract advertisers". Muggs would sometimes appear with his live-in girlfriend Phoebe B Beebe. Muggs was the first celebrity featured on the cover of MAD magazine, but he was not invited back after biting the editor. Legend has it that Today Host Garroway, jealous of the attention being heaped upon his simian co-host, would spike his OJ with drugs. To the best of my knowledge, J Fred is still alive and living in Florida.