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 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?"