“Why did the medium cross the road?”/“To speak to the other side.”

“Why did the chicken cross the road?”/“To get to the other side” is a classic riddle from the 19th century. A medium version is:
   
Q: Why did the medium cross the road?
A: To speak to the other side!
   
“Q: Why did the medium cross the road? A: To get to the Other Side” was posted on the newsgroup alt.humor on August 17, 1997.
   
     
Google Groups: alt.humor
Crossing the road
Peter Metcalfe
8/17/97
Q: Why did the medium cross the road?
A: To get to the Other Side.
 
Twitter
jim808
@jim808
Why did the medium cross the road. To get to the other side
5:34 PM · Apr 28, 2009·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Taika Smith
@TheSpellMaster
Why did the Medium cross the road?........To get to the “other side” - #Psychicjokes #jokes
9:01 PM · Oct 22, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
ENABLER
@_ENABLER_
Q: Why did the Long Island Medium cross the road ?
A: To get to the Other Side.
I crack me up.
5:09 PM · Aug 1, 2013·Facebook
     
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/GhostOfSttarman September 12, 2015
Why did the medium cross the road?
To get to the other side.
   
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/bynkman February 9, 2018
Why did the spirit medium cross the road?
To contact the “other side”.
 
Twitter
brandi
@xobrandihague
Waiter: Why did the medium cross the road? She liked talking to people from the other side.
11:47 AM · Nov 9, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
   
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/wallagm December 20, 2018
Why did the Psychic Medium cross the road?
To get to the other side.
 
Reddit—Cleanjokes
Posted by u/Bakedschwarzenbach January 9, 2020
Why did the medium cross the road?
To speak to the other side!