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If there are jokes to be found amid the wave of corporate scandals, theyre usually on the shareholders. But hey, did you hear the one about the overcompensated CEOs? They found out that making too much money is not nearly as bad as pretending to make too much money.
Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for David Moore (MBA 80), delivering that and other one-liners, live, on stage, at trendy Manhattan comedy clubs. Moore, chairman of Sonostar Ventures, a venture capital firm, is the only person to be named an Ernst & Youngs Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and Manhattans Top Amateur Comedian of the Year. Of the two honors, Moore said, Honestly, Im equally proud of each, though I would have been concerned if Ernst & Young named me Comedian of the Year.
As USA Today (June 12, 2003) reported, Moore has enjoyed stand-up since his parents took him to see Rodney Dangerfield. He made his stage debut about four years ago and now appears once or twice a week, sometimes as a headliner. (And you might have caught him on television as well, most recently on CNBCs Power Lunch in July.)
So does all that make him a celebrity CEO? Being a CEO, who also goes onstage as a comic, is about being real, not about being a celebrity, Moore observed. Comedy is about self-deprecation, about showing vulnerability. In many ways, it is the opposite of being a celebrity CEO.
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