Noted economist Austan Goolsbee was just appointed to lead the Presidents Counsel of Economic Advisors. In 2009, he was named Funniest Celebrity In Washington.

While Goolsbee may have a great TV presence and is obviously an accomplished and humorous speaking professional…

As far as stand-up comedy goes, it is blatantly clear he can only generate open mic laugh levels.

I found an online video of Austan Goolsbe attempting to perform stand-up comedy at the Washington D.C. Improv earlier in 2010 and decided to do an evaluation of this performance using Comedy Evaluator Pro.

Here’s the video and my comments follow:

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