Austan Goolsbee: Funniest Celebrity In D.C.

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Austan Goolsbee won the DC Improv for the Funniest Celebrity in Washington Contest last night. He was pretty funny.

Goolsbee, a top economic adviser to President Obama, took a stab at Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), saying he got “the public option killed in the Senate” and comparing him to Benedict Arnold. Goolsbee called Sarah Palin a “wingnut” and a “quitter” who may have an arrest warrant on her by 2012. Oh, and “if you have no skills and no education and you don’t know anything, what future do you possibly have?”

“Fox News correspondent,” Goolsbee said.

Here’s the video:

And here’s Joe the Plumber:

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