Joke of the day

       

A group of macroeconomists are sitting on a panel at a conference discussing developments in the discipline.

In a heated exchange, the New Keynesian says to the Real Business Cyclist: “You guys have put macroeconomics back twenty years with this nonsense!”

The Real Business Cyclist smiles and says “So you DO believe in negative productivity shocks after all.” [Source]

From Mahalanobis

Comments

[tc]

And you turned down the Edinburgh Festival gig?

[AJE]

Am I the only person to have never, ever, found anything from the Edinburgh Festival funny?

Is it the BBC editing?

I've been to a few comedy clubs and have always been surprised how much i've enjoyed it...

But the Edinburgh Festival seems like a bunch of middle class knobheads.

I honestly think Andrew Mellor would win a "if.comEDY" or whatever the Perrier is now called...

[TomS]

The Independent ran a feature on the 50 best jokes at Edinburgh this year. It's here:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/theatre/features/article1221930.ece

[AJE]

No doubt there's some funny one-liners (e.g. last years but even with these lists a third aren't funny, and a third I've heard before...

I guess you need to participate to enjoy it - rather than a sequence of performances (which it's billed as) it should be seen as a collaborative exchange to produce a few long term greats...

But there's a lot of crap.