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Paula Poundstone on Breaking Barriers as a Stand-Up Comedian | FULL Interview
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September 22, 2021
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53:15Now PlayingiGen Politics team Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi are joined by legendary stand-up comedian Paula Poundstone for a conversation about creating a career, finding opportunity and creative inspiration, and becoming the master of your own destiny. She also shares how we can keep comedy and humor alive while our country is still engaged in the fight against the pandemic.
Comedian Paula Poundstone, our guest today, will surely make you laugh. Paula Poundstone is a popular panelist on NPR’s weekly comedy quiz program Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!. She tours regularly, performing standup throughout the country. Paula was the first woman ever to share the stage with the President as host at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. She also has had numerous HBO specials, starred in her own series on HBO and ABC, is included in Comedy Central’s list of Top 100 Comics of All Time, and has won an American Comedy Award. The National Spokesperson for the ALA’s United for Libraries Volunteer Network, she is also the author of There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say.
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