Paula Poundstone returns to VCA after last season’s sold-out shows! Known for her smart, observational humor and legendary spontaneous wit, Paula is a regular panelist on NPR’s comedy news quiz show, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! She’s starred in several HBO specials including Cats, Cops and Stuff and Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard. She is heard weekly on her podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. Paula was the first female comic in its then 73rd year to perform standup at the White House Correspondents Dinner. She filed live coverage of the 1992 Democratic and Republican National Conventions and the Presidential Inaugural for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and at the 93rd Emmy Awards.

Paula’s book, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness, was one of eight semi-finalists for the Thurber Prize for American Humor; the audiobook was one of five finalists for the AUDIE award for Audiobook of the Year. Her HBO special, Cats, Cops and Stuff, marked the first time a female comedian won Best Comedy Special in the then 5th year of the Cable Ace Awards. Paula’s awards and accolades make a long list, and she is included in innumerable documentaries and literary compendiums noting influential comedians of our time.