
With smart, observational humor and a legendary spontaneous
interaction with the crowd, Paula Poundstone is one of our country’s
pre-eminent comedians. She improvises with a crowd like a Jazz musician,
swinging in unexpected directions without a plan, without a net. There's a
disarming ease in her craft, an immediate sense that she's so quick on her feet
you need never worry about the possibility of something going wrong.
Poundstone’s razor sharp wit and impeccable timing
makes for the perfect fit as a regular panelist on NPR’s #1 show, the weekly comedy news quiz, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! When
asked about Paula, Wait, Wait host
Peter Sagal replied, "Paula Poundstone is the
funniest human being I have ever known. Everything she does, thinks, or says is hilarious. If you cut her into bits, each piece
would be funny. (But don’t!). Air becomes funny having been breathed by her.”
Paula is also an Author. She just released her second book, the
critically acclaimed, The Totally Unscientific
Study Of The Search For Human Happiness (Algonquin Books).The book landed at #1 on Amazon
Best Sellers lists in humor in Hardcover, Audible and CD. The audio book, read
by Poundstone, is one of five finalists for Audio Book of the Year. Paula voiced the character “Forgetter Paula”
in Inside Out, winner of the Academy
Award for Best Animated Feature. Her commentaries appear on CBS Sunday Morning and guest appearances
include Late Night with Stephen Colbert, Last
Call with Carson Daly, Nerdist with Chris
Hardwick, Weekend Edition and ‘Puzzle
Master’ with Will Shortz! Oh, and did
anyone notice that this past year she was an answer in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle?
Paula was the first woman,
in its then 73rd year, to perform standup comedy at the White House Correspondents’
Dinner. A star of several HBO specials – her 2nd special, Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard marked
the first time that elite university allowed its name to be used in the title
of a television show. Paula also starred
in her own series on HBO and ABC, The
Paula Poundstone Show. Her memorable
coverage of the 1992 Presidential election as a special correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, followed
by behind-the-scenes coverage at the 45th
Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards in 1993 set the standard for those who
followed.
Paula is recognized on
Comedy Central’s list of The 100 Best
Standup Comics of All Time. She won an American Comedy Award for Best
Female Standup Comic, and she is included in innumerable lists, documentaries
and literary compendiums noting influential standup comedians of our time.
www.paulapoundstone.com • twitter.com/paulapoundstone •facebook.com/paulapoundstone.