* Paula Poundstone at Bull Run Restaurant

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PAULA POUNDSTONE
09-21-2012 - TWO SHOWS! 7pm & 10pm

Appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone, and a can of Diet Pepsi, PAULA POUNDSTONE is famous for her razor-sharp wit and spontaneity. Audience members often leave complaining that their cheeks hurt from laughter. Hailing from Sudbury, MA she began her standup career as part of the Boston comedy scene, and then moved to San Francisco where she continued to flourish. By 1990 she'd moved to LA 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. In 1992 Paula got her own show on ABC, aptly named, "The Paula Poundstone Show", and behind-the-scenes coverage of that year's EMMY Awards for which she was critically acclaimed. She also became the first woman to perform at the White House Correspondents dinner. In 1996 she taped her second hour special for HBO, "Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard." The Boston Globe said about Paula,  "Poundstone improvises with a crowd like a Jazz musician…swinging in unexpected directions without a plan, without a net." Her 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,". It took her eight years to write her first book, There’s Nothing In This Book That I Meant To Say. "That's because I was writing it in real time," Poundstone jokes. Part memoir, part monologue, Paula's unique laugh-out-loud book features biographies of legendary historical figures including Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc and Sitting Bull. In 2007 BRAVO premiered Paula's newest standup comedy special: "Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In" The show was taped before a live audience in Los Angeles at the landmark Orpheum Theatre. Other credits include: Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion;" Voice of Judge Stone on ABC's Saturday Morning "Science Court" aka "Squigglevision", and "Paula", the mom in Cartoon Network's "Home Movies". She has made numerous appearances on "Late Night with David Letterman;" "Sesame Street;" "To Tell The Truth" and "Comic Relief." In 2009 she released her first comedy CD: I HEART JOKES: Paula Tells Them In Maine, 60 minutes of the smartest comedy recorded live - because as Paula says, "It's very hard to do it any other way." She is also the National Spokesperson for (ALTAFF), The Association of Library Trustees Advocates Friends & Foundations. Says Poundstone: "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. If you haven't been to your library lately, you're overdue."