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"What's the ..... " jokes

Humor and comedians have long been a part of the Grand Old Opry, both with comdedians like Minnie Pearl or StringBean, but also the artists could work a few into their stage patter. Here's an old Jimmy Dickens joke he told often from the stage:

Had to go to the doctor, all of a sudden I couldn't hear anything out of my left ear.

Get in the exam room, the Doc pulls out the little magnifier with the light on it and looks in my left ear.

'Well, goodness, how did this get in there?' He pulled out some long tweezers, reached in my ear, I heard a 'pop' and suddenly I could hear just fine. The doctor shows me the tweezers and . . . . . there's a suppository he just pulled out of my ear. He says, 'Jim, how do you think THAT got in there?'

I said, 'Doc, I don't know, but I bet I know where my hearing aid went!'