Pooch comedy troupe brings out the laughs in Batavia

Johnny Peers and the Muttville Comix kept attendees in stitches Sunday at the Batavia Public Library.

Peers and the Comix is a slapstick comedy act like no other. Peers leads more than a dozen dogs through challenging and hilarious tricks as Peers plays the straight man.

A Ringling Brothers Clown College graduate, Peers has worked with dogs since he got his first puppy, a beagle mix named Freckles, from the Humane Society. Since their debut, the Muttville Comix have appeared at the White House, on "The David Letterman Show," and at Disneyland, Busch Gardens, the Big Apple Circus and the Royal Hanneford Circus.

The show stars mostly dogs rescued from shelters or pounds, like Noodles, the world's only skateboarding basset hound; Murphy, the ladder climbing fox terrier; and Willy, the border collie who only answers to "Sir."