Alison Garwood Jones

“I’m part of the expensively educated downwardly mobile professional class. I sure am glad I didn’t get that Ph.D in art history, otherwise I’d have to buy a care to live out of.”

For more laughs, check out Noam Scheiber’s article, “The Politics of the Downwardly Mobile Professional Class,” New York Times Magazine (June 7, 2026).

I’d be the only standup assigning a reading list.

Hat tip to my friend, Rob Cottingham, who’s moved into doing actual standup.