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The Stand-Up Economist

Yeah, I found one on the internet. Economics is so amenable to jokes that it was only a matter of time before someone exploited the stand-up potential of such a rich [comic] field. Kudos to Yoram Bauman, Ph.D., the world's first and only stand-up economist for takes like these:


...and ...
http://www.youtube.com/v/VVp8UGjECt4

I think almost every field out there has stand-up potential. May be social science jokes are a little easier for non-scientists to understand, and thus will have a greater appeal. You know what they say about jokes you have to explain?

There are plenty of inside jokes within every field and it would not be impossible to filter out those that need much explaining, leaving those that are simple enough for the average Joe. Would there be a market for such humor? I think there would be. Perhaps one can't do a show 5 times a week, but once a week, traveling from one city to another to gather up enough crowds. The US has some 2600 institutions of higher (4+ year) education, with at least 200 of them being research-oriented. There should be plenty of people there to appreciate technical jokes presented by a stand-up scientist. Outside of academia, there are probably people who would be interested in what a stand-up scientist has to say.

Well, I will work on my stand-up computational chemist routine. To be honest, I got no material at this point.
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