Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstoneis an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer and commentator. Beginning in the late 1980s, she performed a series of one-hour HBO comedy specials. She provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She is a frequent panelist on National Public Radio's weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth29 December 1959
CityHuntsville, AL
CountryUnited States of America
I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.
The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer
How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.
I've had to fight very hard to get them where they belong,
It is the best part of the night. The classic (interactive) lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
The mistakes that I made I made because I drank too much, ... I don't think that's going to happen any more. Am I going to make mistakes as a parent? Sadly, every day. I'm looking around for the perfect parent and I haven't seen one yet.
This is not the first time I've been late,
I think that's why they have so many relgious freaks in the airports...they even keep the flowers behind the counter 'Go, go my children...be fruitful and annoy.
My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That's how she learned how to swim. I said, "Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.
You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.
Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.