One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some
money as a street performer.

However, as soon as he starts to draw a crowd, the zookeeper grabs him and
drags him into his office.

The zookeeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular attraction, a
gorilla, has died suddenly. 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.

The next morning, before the crowd arrives, the mime puts on the gorilla
suit and enters the cage. 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 gets bored 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 zookeeper comes and gives the mime a raise for
being such a good attraction as a gorilla.

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?"