Krugman: Improv Night At The Oligarchs’ Ball

[ProSense]

Improv Night At The Oligarchs’ Ball

OK, it was pretty funny when Fix the Debt tried to make itself hip by hiring a flash mob to promote deficit scoldery. But this — which is either real or a very subtle spoof — is cosmically weird:

TRAVEL GIG
Client: Firefly Millward Brown
Business: Research Company
Project: Still being developed: Koch Industries wants to identify current and emerging social and economic issues and the underlying emotional drivers and motivations behind them. This research project will take a cross-section of people, ask questions, and then based on the answers, the improvisers will perform scenes.
Dates: Either the week of 4/21 or 4/28
Talent Needed:
One Team Leader
Four-Five Additional Team Members
One Note Taker
One Videographer

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/improv-night-at-the-oligarchs-ball

[ProSense]

1. Guess I'm the only one

one who thinks the Fix the Debt Flash Mob and the Kochs' Freedom From Criticism Improv Troupe are hilarious.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I ignored it at first, because I thought it would be about the latest "leave oligarchs alone!" op-ed

from the oppressed billionaires. I only opened the thread when I read elsewhere it literally is about improv for billionaires. Bizarre.