Television has just lost its best snarky monkey hand puppet. “Family Tree,” the first try at a scripted television series from filmmaker Christopher Guest, will not return for a second season ...

Think about that monkey, because it's a good example of Family's way with a joke and a good test of whether you'll find the joke funny. When first introduced, it seems like a strained, silly quirk.

A monkey puppet named Spank has outgrown his radio home and is making his stage debut. Spank, a joke-telling simian and mascot of the “Dave & Darren Show” on WXLP-96.9, “97 Rock,” has ...

In work inspired partly by the movie "Avatar," one monkey controlled the body of another monkey using thought alone, via a connection from the brain of the puppet-master monkey to the spine of the ...

Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets will perform “Monkey Makes Mischief in the Heavens” at 2 p.m. Feb. 14 at Arlington Center for the Arts, 41 Foster St., Arlington. In this performance, the ...

Mateo’s new puppet project, however, is more mainstream: a hand-puppet rock band modeled on Jim Henson’s Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem from “The Muppet Show.” ...