“That’s a nice ham you got there…” (joke)

“Nice place you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it” is gangster talk from at least the 1920s. The speaker wants to extort money from the establishment.
   
“That’s a nice ham you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if somebody put an ‘s’ at the front and an ‘e’ at the end” is a jocular variation that was posted on Reddit—Jokes on November 9, 2016. The “ham”/“shame” joke has been printed on several images.
 
         
Reddit—Jokes
That’s a nice ham you’ve got there…
submitted November 9, 2016 by BartVader5000
... it’d be a shame if somebody put an ‘s’ at the front and an ‘e’ at the end.
   
Twitter
Barry McCann‏
@Bazzinho9
That’s a nice ham you’ve got yourself there.
... it’d be a shame if somebody put an ‘s’ at the front and an ‘e’ at the end.
12:24 PM - 9 Nov 2016
 
Twitter
Ludvig Alfredsson‏
@luddini
“That’s a nice ham you got there! It would be a shame if you put an ‘s’ in front of it and an ‘e’ at the end.”
9:44 PM - 12 Nov 2016
 
Twitter
Mary Dzurik‏
@MaryDzurik
Thats a nice ham you got there. It would be a shame if someone were to put an “s” in the front and an “e” at the end.
6:21 PM - 20 Nov 2016
 
Twitter
sara rubio‏
@saraarubioo_
that’s a nice ham you got there, it would be a shame if someone put an “s” at the front and an “e” at the end
9:32 AM - 23 Nov 2016
     
Reddit—Jokes
That’s a nice ham you got there
submitted February 28, 2017 by tbsgrave
It would be a shame if someone put an “s” in front of it and an “e” behind it
 
Twitter
Shit Jokes‏
@ShitJokes
That’s a nice ham you’ve got there…
It’d be a shame if somebody put an ‘s’ at the front and an ‘e’ at the end.
4:52 PM - 18 Apr 2017
   
Reddit—Jokes
That’s a nice ham you got there.
submitted July 9, 2017 by JabbaTheThicc
It’d be a shame if someone put an “s” before it and an “e” after it.
 
Reddit—Jokes
That’s a nice bit of ham you got there…
submitted December 29, 2017 by AsianNationLoL
...it would be a “shame” if someone were to put an ‘S’ at the front and an ‘E’ at the end.