Paula has some of the best crowd work of any stand up of all time.
@km92432 жыл бұрын
She is one of the brilliant minds of our time.
@beth-annrock2372 жыл бұрын
Most definitely! One of my very favorite comedians of all time!!! 💕
@Antonia-kb7lb Жыл бұрын
Watching this for the first time in 2023. How hilarious she is off the cuff with the audience. The prison furniture engineer. I'm dying😂😂🤣
@pauldavies5611 Жыл бұрын
I don’t know of another comic who can improvise that well. Really brilliant.
@jeffryphillipsburns Жыл бұрын
It’s really quite remarkable.
@tedhawthorne5102 Жыл бұрын
She is the best , I love her interaction with the audience.
@michellerobinson50612 жыл бұрын
A legend ahead of her time!❤
@christinearmington2 жыл бұрын
One of the most memorable comedy shows ever! ❤️👍🤩😎
@sashaashby Жыл бұрын
how is it that paula poundstone makes one not just admire her fantastic intellect and diamond wit, but also somehow against every odd, makes you feel so safe in the world, restores your hope in humanity and inspires faith that this ridiculous earth experiment might actually be worth it after all…a rare and fine human being
I really needed this. I’m in the hospital right now and it’s searchers me up.
@clairebear18082 жыл бұрын
So effin funny and the audience is great. Boy did I laugh 😹 and I needed this.
@TheCalebMoline2 жыл бұрын
Ah, the glory days-when a cell phone could be tossed from a balcony, hit a hardwood floor, and be perfectly functional after attaching the one piece that broke off.
@michalrzmichalrz66562 жыл бұрын
Yeah but there was an engineer at the ready :D
@mc12358 Жыл бұрын
@@michalrzmichalrz6656 A mechanical engineer who mechanically engineers things!
@ilelar2 жыл бұрын
Paula is my Hero!!
@devinmceachern Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love Paula Poundstone. She's one of my favorite comediennes of all time. I love it when Paula wears a suit and tie when she does her stand-up comedy specials. 10 points for realness, Paula. _Hermosa._
@Jen7867 Жыл бұрын
I also love that she has never changed her style! Even in her earliest available work from the 90's, she wears pants or jeans and always has a vest and tie, or a suit and tie, or a suit and bowtie, etc. 👍
@devinmceachern Жыл бұрын
@@Jen7867 Me too. Who says women can't wear a suit and tie, a suit and bowtie, a vest and tie, pants or jeans, etc.? 👍🏽
@matthewhines9787 Жыл бұрын
OMG OMG For a decade I have been waiting for someone to upload this to YT. Thank You!
@davidearle72092 жыл бұрын
Watching this show and the topics that she covers let’s me know we’ve been discussing the same topics for a long time. The fact that most of it still applies to today let’s me know that not much has changed…
@kenhollis61972 жыл бұрын
I think that, sociologically, things do not change. Technology changes, but the way we interact with each other doesn't, at least not much.
@auntihooha2 жыл бұрын
Nothing's changed, we just have different actors.
@tedhawthorne5102 Жыл бұрын
@@kenhollis6197 Your right no comedian performs at college campus anymore. These marshmallow pukes that these universities are creating, have a rude awakening when they hit the real world.
@barbaraangele86152 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this. She is wonderful ❤
@kennlong19552 жыл бұрын
Always so funny. And I admire her ties. Thanks for the upload.
@mrbrianberman2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this!!!!
@serenakoleno93382 жыл бұрын
Hilarious show. I'm in love!
@Jte3362 жыл бұрын
Best crowd work
@flylooper Жыл бұрын
PP is one of the great comics of our time. I which I could see more of her on TV.
@jeffryphillipsburns Жыл бұрын
Possiblyq my favorite stand-up.
@cadebritt80018 ай бұрын
Paula marathon today. Wish I could tell her thanks 😊
@janetttyminski7295 Жыл бұрын
Phenomenally talented at improv, Ms Poundstone has identified a key characteristic of the brilliant Harvard students. They are not necessarily grounded in the real world. My father had a Masters from Harvard in physics & applied mathematics. He had limited common sense & had difficulty relating to average IQ people.
@KathyBates1232 жыл бұрын
Best ever. I’ve been looking for this for a while, thanks!
@FuHackers-wx9lq7 ай бұрын
Her split second responses? Her thinking speed, is exceptional! ⚡⚡⚡⚡
@ard52192 Жыл бұрын
I was a baby when this aired and nothing has changed. Lol.
@michelerich15902 жыл бұрын
'so, are you getting credit right now?' jesus christ she's QUICK!
@erikfreitas70932 жыл бұрын
“Well, you know, when you’re studying women, you have to pace yourself … even Senator Packwood could tell you that” 😂
@lisakaplan90072 жыл бұрын
I was at this show!
@girlie642 жыл бұрын
@Lisa Kaplan, "Did the Dude in the balcony, get his phone back"❓🤔 "Inquiring minds, want to know"🕵🏼♀️🤣
@lisakaplan90072 жыл бұрын
@@girlie64 I'm pretty sure he did but it was a long time ago so memory's a little fuzzy on that point.
@goyaassfilms45512 ай бұрын
Paula Poundstone is a master at crowd work.
@LucidBears Жыл бұрын
Seeing her live soon. So excited!!
@kasperorganics-organiccott68812 жыл бұрын
Paula is the best!!
@gabriellarodriguez16282 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏 ughhh!! Shes the best! This was 💯!!
@davidb44297 ай бұрын
Amazing! Paula is remarkable! Thank you!
@MsGoon402 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading!
@fionanicolson20216 ай бұрын
Oh how hysterical is Paula Poundstone❤❤❤
@ikindler7280 Жыл бұрын
This is hilarious. She is really funny.
@terrycole2407 Жыл бұрын
I LOVE Paula Poundstone!
@fluffymuffi12 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this!!
@alisonhenderson9839 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@CionnFE Жыл бұрын
Ms Poundstone shines 🌟
@shaespear4072 жыл бұрын
😂The cell phone was the size of a wall phone Funny show - thank you for the upload👏
@jojokaleido2 жыл бұрын
"Does anybody here have a cell phone?"
@darcy58232 жыл бұрын
This same year, '96, my college classmate had one while the rest of us had pagers. We were all on-call midwifery students. We definitely still called it her car phone, not cell 🤣
@glennwillett-yb3pg Жыл бұрын
She would be fun to hang out with. She is so funny and likeable.
@eemoogee1602 жыл бұрын
Her podcast is still going strong
@mairarodriguez15252 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the info! Joining
@robertgoss4842Ай бұрын
No other entertainer works a crowd like Paula Poundstone. She's truly a genius.
@mariamacksoud82842 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! And yes, we in the USA are stuck.
@donnawiant26492 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I needed to laugh today.
@ikindler72802 жыл бұрын
Wow. That song in the beginning is great!
@kazferns64 Жыл бұрын
This is one of the funniest things ever!
@clairebear18082 жыл бұрын
What a welcome 👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇦😂🤣
@karenmullen74312 жыл бұрын
Well done!
@do7hemath937 Жыл бұрын
Happy New Year. I was watching an old VHS tape & this was at the end, but the last 10 minutes were cut off. Thanks for uploading.
@2ndfloorsongs Жыл бұрын
Watching a VHS tape. I can remember people going on and on about Beta versus VHS... God I'm old. But Paula Poundstone: I am still shocked and amazed at how she can do real-time comedy with audience members. How is that even possible? Wow, just wow.
@do7hemath937 Жыл бұрын
@@2ndfloorsongs does not compute. What are you talking about? 😂
@do7hemath937 Жыл бұрын
@@2ndfloorsongs yes, I'm a 70s baby, but we never had beta. My dad was really cheap. Everybody in school had cable TV and a microwave before we did. I still listen to a ton of cassettes from the 80s too. I literally have a Walkman hooked up to a soundbar.
@PhoebeFayRuthLouise3 ай бұрын
Paula Poundstone always makes me laugh!
@razbitom8 ай бұрын
seriously, my favourite crowd worker of all time. paula is SO laser focussed and unrelenting in her pursuit of great crowd work gags.
@michelebinder80742 жыл бұрын
OMG…that Cellphone!
@leer.213710 ай бұрын
example #1 - from several different shows I have viewed, and appearances on Craig Ferguson's show, (several and good chemistry) - I rarely have seen Her use the same material as a carryover for another show. Bits and pieces here and there, yeah. My point; that is brilliant - P.P. is a stand alone on stand up ✨🤣 thanks for all those laughs {love Ya'} ~ 10/28/23 it is ashame She had issues with her kid's in a courtroom - drinking is a very serious disease -
@leer.213710 ай бұрын
What amazes/concerns ME....SHE did that whole show without any water/beverage 🤔🧐
@BH-zx4dm2 жыл бұрын
Wow! So applicable to today.
@lorettaholscher38082 жыл бұрын
Hilarious!
@linshanhsiang2 жыл бұрын
Didn't realize how old this was till she started talking about Clinton and Dole and my God Ross Perot!
@IDiveInFirst2 ай бұрын
Uh, that cell phone!!!
@NoteFromSELF2 жыл бұрын
I still love Paula.
@chrisgetskicked Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1996… this special could have been filmed last week and I would have had no idea the difference 😅 anyway, Paula is hilarious always
@teresaf9912 жыл бұрын
Thanks for adding year she did this.
@kellygable16688 ай бұрын
never ever sit in the first 10 rows or she will get you . hey i see a blind guy . no one else would dare do that . she is the best .
@marthamagee20552 жыл бұрын
hilarious. I find her so refreshing!
@aisha2370 Жыл бұрын
If I have the venue right as Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall, the statues are of James Otis and Josiah Quincy III. [Wikipedia] Paula asked the audience, who's this guy? to her left
@christinearmington2 жыл бұрын
Different year, same problems. 🤦♀️
@jenniferedmonds70692 жыл бұрын
Wow, watching in 2022. Second Amendment, nothing's changed!
@elizabethdalton-jandreau55882 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly. She was pretty right on about most of it, actually.
@Seilolo Жыл бұрын
😢😢 Politicians and lawmakers owned by NRA.
@dianneduvarney2684 Жыл бұрын
Watching in 2023 and nothings changed, only worse.
@karenmullen74312 жыл бұрын
Nebraska Furniture wouldn't hire me because I was handicapped and would have to show people around the showroom floor in a motorized wheelchair
@irenitele8497 Жыл бұрын
She was making that point... person in wheelchair only for the ad... not in real life. Very sad. 😢
@irenitele8497 Жыл бұрын
And the bit about lack of female representation... she calls it as it is! In another show she picks up on a male chauvinistic guy... well done...
@kenhollis61972 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the guy in the balcony got his phone back, and in one piece.
@firststreetgardeninn57542 жыл бұрын
Cell phones are sturdy
@lourdesdelapena18522 жыл бұрын
🥰👍❤️🙏🏻💕💎
@DevlinMayCare2 жыл бұрын
~~Ace icon~~
@mc12358 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. I love her work on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
@Alantwoyou2 жыл бұрын
who put the blind guy with the good hearing in the front? lol
@user-wx2sl1nq2i10 ай бұрын
I JUST LO V E U !!❤😂😂❤😂
@lissalives1 Жыл бұрын
(Guns) -And 3 years after this, the Columbine shootings happened. It hadn’t slowed down since.
@KrisSwitzerАй бұрын
My ex and I saw her close to 20 years ago at Wichita River Festival and after her set we found a break in the fence to behind stage. Slipped behind stage and lined up with a few other people that had a meet and greet for autographs with her. We didn't plan it so we didn't have anything to have her sign except a $20 & a $1. So we had her sign them. She joked about it being illegal to deface American money and signed them. We gave the one to a friend that night for her birthday and kept the 20 but since have spent it. Fun night tho
@ianroberts4981 Жыл бұрын
02:56 Burl Ives matter.
@Vovvilina Жыл бұрын
2023 here: Yeah, history repeats.
@kennj95292 жыл бұрын
What year was this?
@richardjarrell35852 жыл бұрын
1996
@sophiabeatty32702 жыл бұрын
A long time ago
@kennj95292 жыл бұрын
@@sophiabeatty3270 duh
@Kelli.B.6 ай бұрын
Good God, I would love to hear from the woman she called on the phone. I'd pay good money to hear from one of the chicks in the audience, or even the roommate who was called on the busted cell phone that was launched at Paula. I simply can not fathom the idea that a famous comedian called me because my roommate mentioned me at the show and said comedian decided to ask someone to cold call me to check in!!
@Kelli.B.6 ай бұрын
Did the dude that tossed the brick of a cell phone get a functional phone back?
@janflower40682 жыл бұрын
Yay Paula thanks for not making me the only one saying it I am not happy with our gender either they get on my nerves
@kellyyork38982 жыл бұрын
Ahead of her time.
@marthamagee20552 жыл бұрын
I bet I'm the only person who got the Mr. Muckle joke!
@aisha2370 Жыл бұрын
WC Fields movie, the blind man I missed hearing the joke but I remember that character for sure
@tomitstube Жыл бұрын
"i love that the jail itself is considered a 'marketplace'. that's harvard for ya, and now we have a "private prison" system, where companies *literally* lobby politicians to keep people in jail... america has the largest incarcerated population, and not only that, the highest percentage of people incarcerated... between private prisons and the drug war, america is the incarceration capital of the world... you know because "freedom" (myth). so we finally meet the asshole who makes bus seats and terminal seats so you can't get comfortable or sleep in them, and yes i've been in jail, and it's impossible to nap while waiting in a plastic seat for 8 hours while miserable fascists with badges process you. "uh sir, if i don't get my phone call i'm going to lose my job." "that's not my problem." "uh sir, i've been bonded, when am i leaving?" "they'll come for you." "you know, if only they have more rich prisoners."
@lynb20392 жыл бұрын
CAR SALESMAN TO HOMOSEXUAL" "I CAN RELATE TO YOU".. HS: "OH YEAH?" CS: "WELL, I WEAR SHOES AND GET CRITICIZED FOR THAT" HS: "WHAT?" CS: "YES. AS I SAID, I'M A SALESMAN"
@michellecimmino6326 Жыл бұрын
❤
@UpTown5844 ай бұрын
what's with the poor picture quality? It ruins it for the rest of us/
@Dr.Reason2 жыл бұрын
She makes a lousy philosopher but she is truly funny.