Monkeys close to producing Shakespeare

"The experiment [using computer software] attempts to prove the theory that an infinite number of monkeys sitting at an infinite number of typewriters would eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare by chance." Apparently they're close. It strikes me as one of these theories we generally understand to be true, but feel the need to test anyway. I laughed aloud at the thought of this:

In 2003 the Arts Council for England paid £2,000 for a real-life test of the theorem involving six Sulawesi crested macaques, but the trial was abandoned after a month. The monkeys produced five pages of text, mainly composed of the letter S, but failed to type anything close to a word of English, broke the computer and used the keyboard as a lavatory. 

It's okay, because when your institution has a name like the 'Arts Council', you can get away with almost anything. "It's not science," they'd argue. "It's art."