It’s often hard to have a tenuous grasp on reality these days, so it should be pretty easy to suspend your disbelief for things like one of the iconic characters from the Planet of the Apes existing amongst a human majority and hosting his own take on a late night talk show, right?

Even if you very much want to stay present in this reality, that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying Dana Gould dressing up as Dr. Zaius and doing a full on late night talk show in some sort of semi-parallel universe where almost everything is the same except for the existence of Hanging with Doctor Z and “house bands” only having one member

Take a gander at Gould’s weekly Hanging With Doctor Z, specifically this ep. with Bobcat Goldthwait, here