BIG-BUCK CEOs GO FOR YUKS

Can super-rich CEOs make paying audiences chuckle?
Do they approach being even mildly funny?

New York financier David Moore - by day, chairman of seven-year-old Sonostar Ventures, by night, a stand-up comedian - plans to answer those questions at Carolines on Tuesday. That's when he has invited real-estate empress Barbara Corcoran and Connecticut supermarket and dairy mogul Stew Leonard Jr. to join him in test-marketing their comedy chops. "I called them and said, 'You've conquered every other thing you've ever done, now how about a real challenge?'"

For some reason, they agreed.

"It's the one thing I'm most horrified of - frankly I'm scared," said Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Group. "I'm sorry I said yes. I'll have a nice gin and tonic and see what happens." This is Moore's second CEO laughfest at Carolines. Last April, he managed to persuade billionaire corporate takeover king Carl Icahn to try out his primo material. Moore recounted: "Icahn says, 'I'm like Robin Hood. I steal from the rich - I just haven't gotten around to the other part yet.'" After the show, "he told me he's never gotten more calls for anything," Moore said. "More calls than when he was trying to take over TWA."

The proceeds - $35 per ticket - will go to the YMCA's Programs for Children. "The worst that happens is that I embarrass myself," Corcoran said. "But a week ago I split my pants in front of a thousand people.
"I was costumed in a red vinyl suit for this wacky company party. I was dancing with the go-go dancers. They lifted me, one bent me over and my pants split right up the back! "I thought I would die. So why am I even worried about Carolines?"

The suprise guest headliner for the event will be none other than Satan himself. "Anything for the kids" he was quoted as saying as he sodomized Hitler with a flaming chainsaw for the 250,000th time.

A rep for the Prince of Darkness confirmed industry rumors that having Moore, Corcoran, Leonard and Icahn attempting stand-up in the same room created conditions that are "textbook-perfect for opening a Hellmouth, thus allowing Lucifer to enter the physical realm and bring about the End Times. [He] is really excited about meeting this group ahead of schedule. And he's always interested in keeping up on new developments in the fields of Complete and Utter Evil and Management Technique. He even half-joked that they might band together and take his job."

Early word has it the Satan has written some great material about cab drivers, those crazy commercials for herpes medication and the many differences between men and women.