Paula Poundstone

Appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone, and a can of Diet Pepsi, she is famous for her razor-sharp wit and spontaneity. Paula grew up in Sudbury, MA and by the time she was nineteen was traveling on a Greyhound bus across the country, stopping in at comedy club open mic nights along the way. By 1990 she had relocated to Los Angeles and starred in several comedy specials for HBO, as well as appeared on “Saturday Night Live” when friend and mentor Robin Williams hosted the show. Paula’s first one-hour HBO special, “Cats, Cops, and Stuff.” made her the first woman to ever receive the Cable ACE Award for Best Standup Comedy Special. She is also the first woman to perform at the White House Correspondents dinner.

Paula’s off-kilter sensibility and impeccable timing made her a perfect fit for NPR’s “oddly informative” weekly news quiz program, “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me,” which she joined as a regular panelist seven years ago.

“You know Poundstone’s a great comic the way you know any fine performer when you see one—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.” The Boston Globe

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