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 goober! Do
you want to get us both fired?"
