It should be easy being a "stand-up economist". The jokes do tell themselves. http://chronicle.com/article/An-Economist-Stands-Up-for-a/63348/ ------------------------------------snip An economist who works the comedy clubs thinks his audiences deserve an explanation.
So as soon as Yoram Bauman gets to the microphone, he tells a couple of dozen patrons gathered in the Comedy Underground: "I spent five years in graduate school getting a Ph.D. in economics and then decided to try my hand at stand-up comedy. "You can imagine how proud my father is. "He was a German Jew who never watched television. He said, 'Give me the name of a single Jew who's ever made it in stand-up comedy.'" Mr. Bauman delivers the line flat; the patrons chuckle. The self-styled "world's first and only stand-up economist," a lanky, bespectacled economics instructor by day in the Program on the Environment at the University of Washington, seems confident that he's on a roll. "My dad said, 'Yoram, you'll never make it as a stand-up economist. There's no demand.' "I said, 'Don't worry, Dad; I'm a supply-side economist. I just stand up and let the jokes trickle down.'" "Auwgkh!" the audience moans. "I believe in the Laffer curve." Bada-bing? -raghu. -- "If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
