FUNNY FINANCE

1938 The Financial Follies Financiers and businessmen joined up to poke fun the old-fashioned way—with song, dance, and NYSE jokes—in an annual lampoon that is still around. 1982 Off the Wall Street Journal This faux issue of The Wall Street Journal featured stories about Reaganomics, executives’ mistresses, and a report on death and taxes: “How to avoid both.” 2003 Wu-Tang Financial Comedian Dave Chappelle brought the Wu-Tang Clan to a run-of-the-mill financial services company in a parody for The Chappelle Show in 2003. 2011 Goldman Sachs Elevator Was that really an earthquake?” “No, I just dropped my wallet” is what you might hear in the Goldman Sachs elevator, according to the @GSElevator Twitter account. 2021 Every Finance Bro Comedian Trevor Wallace’s biting impression of “every finance bro” (“I had to stop watching Wolf of Wall Street and start living it”) has garnered more than…