SMNC Character Bios - Cheston

A descendant of the renowned Kampanga gorilla acting troop, Sir Cheston rose to become one of the leading gorilla actors of the modern age, leaving his mark on stage, television and film in a career that lasted five decades.

Sir Cheston began acting as an infant, when he appeared alongside his father in The Wandering Heir of Mumsbury at the Olympic Theater in London. As a juvenile blackback Cheston became interested in dance and was for a time a member of the Royal Danish Ballet before returning to the theater in order to play Hamlet, which he did over 1000 times across eight productions. While Sir Cheston won international acclaim and broke box office records with his Shakespearean roles he had other successes in the theater as well. His youthful, emotionally expressive portrayal of Treplev in the Seagull and his later work in The Cherry Orchard successfully established Anton Chekhov's viability on the gorilla-speaking stage.

With the collapse of Europe however, Sir Cheston was forced to pursue his craft in North America. He earned an Academy Award for best Gorilla in a Leading Role for the film adaption of Garfield, The Musical and is perhaps best known to mass audiences for his side-splitting role as the flatulent gorilla gangster Bananas Monihan in The Mob Goes Bananas (a role he reprised in three subsequent sequels).

Later, as a silver-back, Sir Cheston crowded his mantle further with an Emmy for his turn as Ardmore, the sardonic butler on "Meet the Meatsacks", a role first intended to be only a guest appearance but which was written into the series for the first five of it's impressive thirty-two season run (and counting).

Sir Cheston died of depression at his country estate at Smithylle Place, near Trentendon, Kent, England, at the age of fifty-five, after which he was promptly stuffed and sold at auction.

Today, Sir Cheston Wyndham Kampanga lives on, not only in the hearts and minds of billions, but in the annals of Super Monday Night Combat, where his DNA has been used to create a perfect clone of the actor exactly as he was in his most popular role ever.

Pro Career

• Only the second primate to join the leagues of SMNC after former Secretary of State and lifelong orangutan Captain Jinks
• Has used his star power effectively, killing over 600 clones after they became entranced with a monolouge from The Duchess of Malfi.
• Has sung the recently renamed Star-Spangled Sprintz Sports Gum Banner before a game over 100 times

Notable DNA

Sir Cheston Wyndham Kampanga, Lionel Barrymore, Jambo the gorilla

Personal

• His corpse received almost $150,000 worth of restorative taxidermy so he could be knighted posthumously
• Only Super Monday Night Combatant to win an Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role by a Gorilla in a Light Opera or Pantomime.
• Once destroyed the radio studio of the "Bongo and the Gooch Mayhem in the A.M. Radio Show" in a wild onset gorilla rage, after the shock jocks repeatedly insisted he perform Ardmore the Butler's catchphrase from Meet the Meatsacks, "Great Godfrey!"

Likes:

Spotlights, Jacobean theater, rave reviews, lilac water humidifiers

Dislikes:

The theater, television and film-going publics, tepid reviews, gorilla jokes.