Here at the hospital we had a case of acute irony deafness last year. We learned that the patient had never been exposed to irony at a young age and thus had no defense against it. We prescribed a bolus of Dennis Miller followed by Jonathan Swift TID for 14 days. However, the local pharmacy in his hometown had no Swift, so they substituted Jeff Foxworthy, which proved insufficient. In fact, the patient developed a resistant strain of irony deafness, and we had to admit him to the hospital so he could watch reruns of "The Kids In the Hall" on cable television for 3 days. This also proved unsuccessfull, and we learned later that the patient had access to the remote control and had been flipping the channel back to "Hee-Haw" reruns on CMT. So we referred the patient to the Transplant Surgery team, and they performed a successful funny bone transplantation. The patient is now a movie reviewer for The Onion, and we regard this as one of our greatest medical achievements. ;|