More Goldman Sachs love from Jon Stewart on The Daily Show….
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Tags: Goldman Sachs, Humor, Jon Stewart, Politics, The Daily Show, Videos
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Tags: comedy, Entertainment, Humor, Long Island, New York, secession, The Daily Show, Videos
Slow Jam The News: We watched this on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" after the Leno interview with Barack Obama and thought it was really well done. Fallon talked about the big bonuses paid out at AIG and how the government now wants the money back. "This story ignites a passion in me… and you knows what it means when a news story ignites my passion…" and then they launched into their Slow Jam of the News — "Talkin' Bout AIG"….. Well placed mentions: Goldman Sachs, Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama and naturally, those demonized bonuses recently paid to AIG executives. "GET ROUGH ON 'EM OBAMA!" "AIG Likes it ROUGH!" A "Must See"!
Tags: AIG, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Bonuses, Fed, Goldman Sachs, Humor, Jimmy Fallon
TMZ reports that Special Olympics "bowling phenom" Kolan McConiughey has challenged Barack Obama to a match after the foot-in-mouth remarkthe Prez made on Leno, prompting a fast before-airing apology. They also suggest that George Bush would have been skewered if he had made a similar remark…
Tags: Barack Obama, Humor, Politics
"Protestors attempt to teabag the White House, Jon blames the media, and Glenn Beck cries." It includes a clip from his Jim Cramer dust up, where he makes fun of himself…
Tags: Economy, Humor, Jim Cramer
On the morning before the big Jim Cramer / Jon Stewart showdown, Cramer made an appearance on Martha Stewart's TV show. He and Martha chit chatted for a bit, much of it related to Jon Stewart. Then they moved on to making a banana cream pie (fitting, because Cramer's antics include his throws them on his show) all the while discussing the economy, the stock market…
Tags: Food/Drink, Humor, Jim Cramer, Martha Stewart
In last night's much anticipated heavyweight bout between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer no physidal punches were thrown and no blood was spilled. It was a calm discussion of Cramer's antics, and the failure of financial reporting in general. They agreed they all need to do better.
Cramer came out and Stewart started with "How the hell did we end up here?".
It ended with the promise of Cramer doing better so that Stewart "can go back to making fart noises and funny faces". They shook hands. And the fight was over….
The intro is funny, including clips from Cramer's earlier in the day appearance on Martha Stewart's show. ("Bern after Pleading")
Here's the multi part video :
Tags: CNBC, Humor, Jim Cramer
They're milking this for all it's worth
Tags: CNBC, Humor, Jim Cramer
"In Cramer We Trust
"Jim Cramer didn't recommend buying Bear Stearns stock a week before it collapsed — he did it five days earlier.""
Jon Stewart apologizes for taking Cramer out of context but then shows footage that kind of moots the apology. Oops. More lampooning of Cramer and CNBC. Oh, and that CNBC skewering video that The Daily Show presented last week when Rick Santelli didn't show up? Stewart says they were gonna show that anyway with Santelli there.
Tags: CNBC, Humor, Jim Cramer
“Save the bankers and make the world a better place”
Tags: Humor, investment banking
Makethe President angry, and he turns into "The Rock" Obama
Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Humor, Politics
Today, a
Bloomberg feature introduced us to Ben Shoval, a hedge fund manager who runs
Ambit Funding, managing $260 million of his family’s money. Hoping to
emcee conferences and charity events, he’s been giving stand-up comedy a whirl,
taking a dozen group lessons since January that have cost him $3,500 so
far. He performed last week at New York’s Broadway Comedy club. The
inspiration for his shtick? What he knows best — the world of hedge
funds. But he didn’t exactly slay the audience.
“When things are bad, particularly like they are now, we seem to be a good scapegoat for absolutely everything,” Shoval said. “That’s what’s neat about the whole hedge-fund manager routine that I’m doing, because there are so many misunderstandings.”
“A hedge fund is like a
mutual fund on steroids,” said Shoval, who manages $260 million for his
family’s firm, Ambit Funding. “It’s like the Barry Bonds of investments. Barry
goes to Mexico for his juice. We go to the Cayman Islands.”
The line drew a smattering of laughs from the audience of almost three dozen, highlighting the challenge Shoval faces delivering hedge fund humor to a crowd more accustomed to wisecracks about sex and race. His non-financial one-liners got more response during a 12-minute set on Aug. 5.
Shoval isn’t the only hedge fund manager who’s given comedy a shot. He might want to take a lesson from Carl Icahn who’s also been known to do a bit of stand-up….
Tags: Carl Icahn, Hedge funds, Humor
Barack Obama visited The Daily Show last night. The first part (4:15) is above, the second part (5:06) is below…
"In our never-ending effort to provoke thought and provide smiles, we offer 35 reasons why the March lows were an excellent trading opportunity but not the ultimate bottom."
Here are some of his 35:
* Maltese dogs are still favored over
Rottweilers by the elite Park Avenue crowd.* Ben Bernanke continues to insist we’re
not in a recession. Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward
solving it.* Jimmy Cayne can still afford Twinkies and
Skittles.* Merrill Lynch employees have yet to tape
Susan B. Anthony coins to the windows of their corporate offices.* Angelo Mozilo still has a tan.
* Alan Greenspan is still getting paid to
speak.
Tags: Credit Crunch, Humor
Paris Hilton on the cover of National Geographic???? Thank the Harvard Lampoon for that (with National Geographic’s blessing). Their latest edition is out today, April Fool’s day. Here’s some more April fools mischief:
Tags: Humor
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