Jobs in the Zoo

One day a young man went to the zoo for an interview of a job as a street performer. The zoo keeper said to him that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla, had died suddenly and he feared that attendance to the zoo would fall off. He offered the young man instead a job to dress up as the gorilla until they could get another one. The young man accepted.
So the next morning, the young man put on the gorilla suit and entered the cage before the crowd came. He discovered it was a great job. He could sleep all he wanted, played and made fun of people, and he drew big crowds to the cage. However eventually, the crowds got tired of him, and he got tired of just swinging on tires. He began to notice that people were paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of the audience, he climbed to the top of the cage, crawled across a partition, and dangled from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this made the lion furious, but the crowd loved it. At the end of the day, the zoo keeper came and gave the young man a raise for being such a good attraction.
So this went on for some time. The young man kept irritating the lion, the lion got angry, the crowds grew larger, and his salary kept going up. Then one terrible day when he was dangling over the furious lion, he slipped and fell into the lion's cage. The young man was terrified. The lion stared at him and prepared to jump over. The young man was so scared that he began to run around and around the cage with the lion close behind. Finally, the young man started screaming and yelled, "Help! Help me!" The lion was quick to jump on his body. The young man found himself lying flat on the floor looking up at the angry lion.
Hastily, the voice of the lion said , "Shut up! Shut up idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"