One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts 
to earn some money as a street performer. Unfortunately, as 
soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him 
and drags him into his office.
 
The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most 
popular attraction, a gorilla has died suddenly and the 
keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. 
He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until
they can get another one. The mime accepts.
 
So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and 
enters the cage before crowd comes. He discovers that it's 
a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun 
of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a 
mime. However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he 
tires of just swinging on tires. He begins to notice that 
the people are paying more attention to the lion in the 
cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of 
his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls 
across a partition, and dangles from the top to the lion's 
cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the 
crowd loves it.
 
At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the 
mime a raise for being such a good attraction.
 
Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps taunting 
the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps 
going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over 
the furious lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. 
The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is 
so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage 
with the lion close behind. Finally, the mime starts 
screaming and yelling, "Help, Help me!" but the lion is 
quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his
back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says,
 
"Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"