Today is National Gorilla Suit Day. National Gorilla Suit Day was invented by “Mad’s Maddest Artist” (i.e., the weirdest of all the cartoonists in Mad Magazine), Don Martin…and maybe also by E. Solomon Rosenblum, a writer who collaborated with him on the 1964 paperback book, Don Martin Bounces Back! To celebrate National Gorilla Suit Day, the tradition is to dress up in a gorilla suit and make a door-to-door trek around the neighborhood. But as Fester Bestertester noted, “Everybody knows it’s just a ploy by the gorilla suit companies to sell their products!”
Oh, and if you were curious about the theme song for National Gorilla Suit Day, you can either sing “A Monkey In A Suit” from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, or watch this:
