Paula Poundstone: Ridgefield Playhouse: Number 88 on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, Poundstone was the first female comedienne to win a CableAce Award for her HBO Special Cats, Cops and Stuff. She followed up with another HBO special Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard and a Bravo special Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In. She is currently the host of NPR’s Live from the Poundstone Institute.
With smart, observational humor and a legendary spontaneous interaction with the crowd, Paula Poundstone is one of our country’s pre-eminent comedians. American Comedy Award-winner for Best Female Standup Comic, she has made more than a dozen appearances on late night talk shows and is a regular panelist on NPR’s #1 show, Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!