The New York Financial Writers Association skewered Bank of America, Chris Christie, Pimco, the marijuana boom, and Herbalife, among other targets, at the group's annual Financial Follies Nov. 21 at Manhattan’s Marriott Marquis.

Members including Carolyn Crapo, Kenneth Robert Marlo, Angelo McDonough, Sheila Mullan, Joseph Dietrich, David Graubard, Adam Ulrich, Kyle Patrick Guglielmo, Melissa Rose Hirsch, Sherry Hscieh, Heather White, Irene Weissman and Sarah Korenenberg performed song-and-dance routines based on some of 2014's biggest headlines.

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"Big Girls Don't Cry" was re-worked as "Big Guvs Don’t Cry" to needle Christe on the Bridgegate scandal:

Big guvs don’t cry-yi-yi (they don’t cry)
Big guvs don’t cry (He’s got an alibi)
Chris Christie won’t lie-yi-yi (Wouldn’t try)
He’s got an alibi (He ate a pie).

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Follies performers needle Gov. Chris Christie on Bridgegate.
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Follies performers tweaked One Direction’s hit "Best Song Ever" into "Worst Deal Ever," featuring a faux Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan crooning:

Trillion bucks of mortgage loans
Pride of downtown Calabasa
Countrywide was just a scam
Freakin’ pile of toxic assets.

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L-R: Brunswick Group execs Alexander Yankus, Sourav Bhowmick, Sarah Salky, Josh Gerth, and Melissa Epstein.
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Pharrell William's chart-topped "Happy" was retuned to laud the new marijuana economy:

I started out making subprime loans, yeah yeah
Than I moved to selling corporate bonds, yeah yeah
What I sell now people really want, yeah yeah
Little bags with buds and candy made with pot.

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The marijuana economy is cheered.
Photo: Christine Albano

About 1,100 journalists, financial PR pros and other financial and media execs attended the event. The group awarded 10 scholarships to students from CUNY Graduate School of Journalis, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and New York University.

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Jack O’Dwyer with financial PR pro Jennifer Prosek.
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