Comedy Performance from Paula Poundstone (In-Person and Livestreamed)
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Organizations: Paula Poundstone
Date: Friday, June 11, 2021
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost:

Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents a Comedy Performance from Paula Poundstone in-person inside the Street and Davis Performance Hall on Friday, June 11, 2021.

Paula Poundstone casually delivers smart humor with a razor-sharp, spontaneous wit that has become the stuff of legend. A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor described her as “the bravest and best improv comic of our time.”

Paula Poundstone is a humorist, author and comedian known for her clever, observational humor and spontaneous wit. When she isn’t collecting hotel soaps while on tour or panel-ing on NPR’s #1 show, "Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!", Paula hosts the popular Starburns Audio podcast, "Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone". Nobody is a comedy field guide to life complete with taste tests, cats of the weeks and leading experts in everything from beekeeping to ping pong to prosopagnosia.

Paula’s stand-up credentials are endless: Cats, Cops and Stuff; Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard; Look What the Cat Dragged In; and numerous television appearances including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Last Call with Carson Daly and Late Show with David Letterman. Famously, Paula provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and was the first woman to host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

In 2017, Paula released her second book, "The Totally Unscientific Study Of The Search For Human Happiness", in which she offers herself up as a guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments. Kirkus Reviews called the book, “A deeply revealing memoir in which the pathos doesn’t kill the humor—delivers more than it promises.” The book debuted at #1 on the Amazon Bestsellers List in Humor, and the audiobook was one of the five finalists for 2018 Audio Book of the Year. The book was recognized as one of eight semi-finalists for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the highest recognition of the art of humor writing in the United States.

Paula can be heard on the big screen as “Forgetter Paula” in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out, winner of the 2017 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. She has also starred in her own series on both HBO and ABC, is included on Comedy Central’s Top 100 Comics of All Time and won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up. In February 2019, Paula’s stand-up special, "Cats, Cops and Stuff" was named by TIME Magazine and Tig Notaro as one of The 5 Funniest Stand-Up Specials Ever.

Links:

• https://paulapoundstone.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/paulapoundstone
• https://www.twitter.com/paulapoundstone

Availability for this in-person event is for single seats or seats in pods of two. Operating at just under 30% capacity, seating will be spaced throughout the theatre with at least six feet of distancing between each pod, available as single seats or in pods of two.

To provide additional comfort, we will offer a livestream option for ticket holders, so if you feel unwell or uncomfortable attending, you also have the option to watch the performance live from home. A link will be provided to ticket holders by email prior to the performance. This stream is only available live.

Tickets can be purchased online, in person at the Moss Arts Center Box Office Monday-Friday from 10:00 am - 5:30 pm and Saturday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm and by phone at 540-231-5300.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/mapSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=1C97937C-B161-4FDC-A5A1-688C0D8CDFA3.

Face coverings are required to be worn by visitors and staff members at all times in the Moss Arts Center, including while seated during performances.

Presented in partnership with Virginia Tech Alumni Association.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/paula-poundstone.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/.