A D.C. government made a funny today, and we approve.

It’s often that Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) says something that leaves most everyone wondering what his point was and why he was making it. Now you can make it your living trying to explain it to them.

Not only is former Mayor Adrian Fenty going to be a paid speaker — $20,000 a pop! — and Oberlin professor, but as WAMU reports, he’ll also be advising language instruction company Rosetta Stone.

Former D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty may very well be spending some time in the near future raking in the dough as a motivational speaker/education reform advocate, but that isn’t his real post-mayoral calling. Philadelphia-based consulting firm Heffler, Radetich & Saitta LLP announced this morning that Fenty would be joining their ranks as “an outside advisor and counsel.”