Monkey House is a comedy, but then again it was I felt a dark humor. The people that the author writes about had committed terrible crimes. Mr. Griffith seems to find a "Far Side" sense of humor in describing the day to day life at a federal medical facility that he and other high profile criminals shared. Bernie Madoff, Jonathan Pollard, Carimine Persico, Nicky Scarfo, and a host of others. I found it fascinating how these people live in what the author describes as the MONKEY HOUSE.