[T-Bird45]

Anybody know the old joke (and I mean old) about some city guy who goes racoon hunting with a monkey and challenges the locals to match their coonhounds to his monkey, as far as racoon hunting skill.

The story as I heard it was by Jerry Clower and could probably be found on one of his old recordings. It involved giving the monkey a revolver and a flashlight, allowing it to climb the tree, find the coon, and shoot it.

It seems that the dogs indicated they had a coon up a tree, the monkey was sent up with light and revolver, looked all over for the coon, and upon not finding the coon, descended the tree and shot the "lying coon hound."

[dawn53]

That's it, it was Jerry Clower.

Thanks...I just found it on iTunes and downloaded it. It's a 7 1/2 minute sketch, pretty funny.