The Mime
    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?