Paula Poundstone Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard (1996)

[@ncorp2668]

Paula has some of the best crowd work of any stand up of all time.

[@km9243]

She is one of the brilliant minds of our time.

[@beth-annrock237]

Most definitely! One of my very favorite comedians of all time!!! 💕

[@Antonia-kb7lb]

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]

I don’t know of another comic who can improvise that well. Really brilliant.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

It’s really quite remarkable.

[@tedhawthorne5102]

She is the best , I love her interaction with the audience.

[@michellerobinson5061]

A legend ahead of her time!❤

[@christinearmington]

One of the most memorable comedy shows ever! ❤️👍🤩😎

[@sashaashby]

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

[@charlesmiller1446]

Hysterical, Historical, EPIC POUNDSTONE !!! Beloved.

[@susanelder7192]

I really needed this. I’m in the hospital right now and it’s searchers me up.

[@clairebear1808]

So effin funny and the audience is great. Boy did I laugh 😹 and I needed this.

[@TheCalebMoline]

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.

[@michalrzmichalrz6656]

Yeah but there was an engineer at the ready :D

[@mc12358]

​@@michalrzmichalrz6656 A mechanical engineer who mechanically engineers things!

[@ilelar]

Paula is my Hero!!

[@devinmceachern]

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]

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]

@@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]

OMG OMG For a decade I have been waiting for someone to upload this to YT. Thank You!

[@davidearle7209]

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…

[@kenhollis6197]

I think that, sociologically, things do not change. Technology changes, but the way we interact with each other doesn't, at least not much.

[@auntihooha]

Nothing's changed, we just have different actors.

[@tedhawthorne5102]

@@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.

[@barbaraangele8615]

Thank you so much for posting this. She is wonderful ❤

[@kennlong1955]

Always so funny. And I admire her ties. Thanks for the upload.

[@mrbrianberman]

Thank you so much for this!!!!

[@serenakoleno9338]

Hilarious show. I'm in love!

[@Jte336]

Best crowd work

[@flylooper]

PP is one of the great comics of our time. I which I could see more of her on TV.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Possiblyq my favorite stand-up.

[@cadebritt8001]

Paula marathon today. Wish I could tell her thanks 😊

[@janetttyminski7295]

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.

[@KathyBates123]

Best ever. I’ve been looking for this for a while, thanks!

[@FuHackers-wx9lq]

Her split second responses? Her thinking speed, is exceptional! ⚡⚡⚡⚡

[@ard52192]

I was a baby when this aired and nothing has changed. Lol.

[@michelerich1590]

'so, are you getting credit right now?' jesus christ she's QUICK!

[@erikfreitas7093]

“Well, you know, when you’re studying women, you have to pace yourself … even Senator Packwood could tell you that” 😂

[@lisakaplan9007]

I was at this show!

[@girlie64]

@Lisa Kaplan, "Did the Dude in the balcony, get his phone back"❓🤔 "Inquiring minds, want to know"🕵🏼‍♀️🤣

[@lisakaplan9007]

@@girlie64 I'm pretty sure he did but it was a long time ago so memory's a little fuzzy on that point.

[@goyaassfilms4551]

Paula Poundstone is a master at crowd work.

[@LucidBears]

Seeing her live soon. So excited!!

[@kasperorganics-organiccott6881]

Paula is the best!!

[@gabriellarodriguez1628]

👏👏👏👏👏 ughhh!! Shes the best! This was 💯!!

[@davidb4429]

Amazing! Paula is remarkable! Thank you!

[@MsGoon40]

Thanks for uploading!

[@fionanicolson2021]

Oh how hysterical is Paula Poundstone❤❤❤

[@ikindler7280]

This is hilarious. She is really funny.

[@terrycole2407]

I LOVE Paula Poundstone!

[@fluffymuffi1]

Thanks for posting this!!

[@alisonhenderson9839]

Brilliant!

[@CionnFE]

Ms Poundstone shines 🌟

[@shaespear407]

😂The cell phone was the size of a wall phone Funny show - thank you for the upload👏

[@jojokaleido]

"Does anybody here have a cell phone?"

[@darcy5823]

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]

She would be fun to hang out with. She is so funny and likeable.

[@eemoogee160]

Her podcast is still going strong

[@mairarodriguez1525]

Thank you for the info! Joining

[@robertgoss4842]

No other entertainer works a crowd like Paula Poundstone. She's truly a genius.

[@mariamacksoud8284]

Brilliant! And yes, we in the USA are stuck.

[@donnawiant2649]

Thank you. I needed to laugh today.

[@ikindler7280]

Wow. That song in the beginning is great!

[@kazferns64]

This is one of the funniest things ever!

[@clairebear1808]

What a welcome 👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇦😂🤣

[@karenmullen7431]

Well done!

[@do7hemath937]

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]

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]

@@2ndfloorsongs does not compute. What are you talking about? 😂

[@do7hemath937]

@@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.

[@PhoebeFayRuthLouise]

Paula Poundstone always makes me laugh!

[@razbitom]

seriously, my favourite crowd worker of all time. paula is SO laser focussed and unrelenting in her pursuit of great crowd work gags.

[@michelebinder8074]

OMG…that Cellphone!

[@leer.2137]

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.2137]

What amazes/concerns ME....SHE did that whole show without any water/beverage 🤔🧐

[@BH-zx4dm]

Wow! So applicable to today.

[@lorettaholscher3808]

Hilarious!

[@linshanhsiang]

Didn't realize how old this was till she started talking about Clinton and Dole and my God Ross Perot!

[@IDiveInFirst]

Uh, that cell phone!!!

[@NoteFromSELF]

I still love Paula.

[@chrisgetskicked]

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

[@teresaf991]

Thanks for adding year she did this.

[@kellygable1668]

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 .

[@marthamagee2055]

hilarious. I find her so refreshing!

[@aisha2370]

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

[@christinearmington]

Different year, same problems. 🤦‍♀️

[@jenniferedmonds7069]

Wow, watching in 2022. Second Amendment, nothing's changed!

[@elizabethdalton-jandreau5588]

My thoughts exactly. She was pretty right on about most of it, actually.

[@Seilolo]

😢😢 Politicians and lawmakers owned by NRA.

[@dianneduvarney2684]

Watching in 2023 and nothings changed, only worse.

[@karenmullen7431]

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]

She was making that point... person in wheelchair only for the ad... not in real life. Very sad. 😢

[@irenitele8497]

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...

[@kenhollis6197]

I wonder if the guy in the balcony got his phone back, and in one piece.

[@firststreetgardeninn5754]

Cell phones are sturdy

[@lourdesdelapena1852]

🥰👍❤️🙏🏻💕💎

[@DevlinMayCare]

~~Ace icon~~

[@mc12358]

Absolutely. I love her work on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

[@Alantwoyou]

who put the blind guy with the good hearing in the front? lol

[@user-wx2sl1nq2i]

I JUST LO V E U !!❤😂😂❤😂

[@lissalives1]

(Guns) -And 3 years after this, the Columbine shootings happened. It hadn’t slowed down since.

[@KrisSwitzer]

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]

02:56 Burl Ives matter.

[@Vovvilina]

2023 here: Yeah, history repeats.

[@kennj9529]

What year was this?

[@richardjarrell3585]

1996

[@sophiabeatty3270]

A long time ago

[@kennj9529]

@@sophiabeatty3270 duh

[@Kelli.B.]

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.]

Did the dude that tossed the brick of a cell phone get a functional phone back?

[@janflower4068]

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

[@kellyyork3898]

Ahead of her time.

[@marthamagee2055]

I bet I'm the only person who got the Mr. Muckle joke!

[@aisha2370]

WC Fields movie, the blind man I missed hearing the joke but I remember that character for sure

[@tomitstube]

"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."

[@lynb2039]

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]

❤

[@UpTown584]

what's with the poor picture quality? It ruins it for the rest of us/

[@Dr.Reason]

She makes a lousy philosopher but she is truly funny.