Mugging for the cameras.
Except for this last bit, the whole routine, while fascinating to watch, can only be considered remarkable if you consider monkeys to be lesser humans. This was precisely the conceit of this show: the banter consisted of the monkey trainer saying, "This guy is so lazy and so dumb, you really have to cajole him to do this trick." (Cue the monkey pulling off the trick perfectly after much reluctance.) But if you look at the monkey as the animal that it is, his feats look less impressive -- he's just doing what a monkey does.
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