Paula Poundstone Headlines the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts

The legendary comedienne Paula Poundstone is known for her razor-sharp wit, her self-deprecating humor and her hilarious spontaneity with the crowd. She is a regular panelist on NPR’s #1 news quiz show, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me. She also voiced the character “Forgetter Paula” in Disney Pixar’s INSIDE OUT, which won Best Animated Feature Film in 2016. On June 28, 2016, HighBridge, a Grammy Award winning publisher of spoken-word audio., released Paula’s first “double live” CD, North by Northwest: Paula Poundstone Live!, which debut at #1 on Amazon. It was recorded at memorable performance stops in Bayfield, Wisconsin and Portland, Oregon. “It’s a joyous romp through a field of cheeseheads and hipsters,” continues Poundstone. Paula even manages to handle politics without provoking the pall of disapproval received by less artful comics. Says Poundstone, “I can’t shut up if my life depended on it. I’m still talking somewhere.”