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.
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 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._
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. 👍
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 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.
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.
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 🤣
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.
@@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.
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
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 -
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!!
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"
"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."
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Paula has some of the best crowd work of any stand up of all time.
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😂😂🤣
She is one of the brilliant minds of our time.
Most definitely! One of my very favorite comedians of all time!!! 💕
I don’t know of another comic who can improvise that well. Really brilliant.
It’s really quite remarkable.
She is the best , I love her interaction with the audience.
A legend ahead of her time!❤
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.
Yeah but there was an engineer at the ready :D
@@michalrzmichalrz6656 A mechanical engineer who mechanically engineers things!
One of the most memorable comedy shows ever! ❤️👍🤩😎
So effin funny and the audience is great. Boy did I laugh 😹 and I needed this.
Hysterical, Historical, EPIC POUNDSTONE !!!
Beloved.
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
Best crowd work
Possiblyq my favorite stand-up.
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._
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. 👍
@@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.? 👍🏽
Paula is my Hero!!
PP is one of the great comics of our time. I which I could see more of her on TV.
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…
I think that, sociologically, things do not change. Technology changes, but the way we interact with each other doesn't, at least not much.
Nothing's changed, we just have different actors.
@@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.
Always so funny. And I admire her ties. Thanks for the upload.
'so, are you getting credit right now?' jesus christ she's QUICK!
“Well, you know, when you’re studying women, you have to pace yourself … even Senator Packwood could tell you that” 😂
Hilarious show. I'm in love!
Thank you so much for posting this. She is wonderful ❤
I was a baby when this aired and nothing has changed. Lol.
I was at this show!
@Lisa Kaplan, "Did the Dude in the balcony, get his phone back"❓🤔
"Inquiring minds, want to know"🕵🏼♀️🤣
@@girlie64 I'm pretty sure he did but it was a long time ago so memory's a little fuzzy on that point.
This is hilarious. She is really funny.
Thank you so much for this!!!!
👏👏👏👏👏 ughhh!! Shes the best! This was 💯!!
😂The cell phone was the size of a wall phone
Funny show - thank you for the upload👏
Ms Poundstone shines 🌟
OMG OMG For a decade I have been waiting for someone to upload this to YT. Thank You!
Best ever. I’ve been looking for this for a while, thanks!
Seeing her live soon. So excited!!
Paula is the best!!
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.
Brilliant!
Amazing! Paula is remarkable! Thank you!
I LOVE Paula Poundstone!
Thanks for posting this!!
Thanks for uploading!
"Does anybody here have a cell phone?"
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 🤣
She would be fun to hang out with. She is so funny and likeable.
Her podcast is still going strong
Thank you for the info! Joining
I really needed this. I’m in the hospital right now and it’s searchers me up.
Thank you. I needed to laugh today.
Her split second responses? Her thinking speed, is exceptional! ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Brilliant! And yes, we in the USA are stuck.
Oh how hysterical is Paula Poundstone❤❤❤
Wow. That song in the beginning is great!
What a welcome 👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇦😂🤣
Well done!
This is one of the funniest things ever!
Paula marathon today. Wish I could tell her thanks 😊
OMG…that Cellphone!
Hilarious!
Paula Poundstone always makes me laugh!
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
Didn't realize how old this was till she started talking about Clinton and Dole and my God Ross Perot!
I still love Paula.
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.
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.
@@2ndfloorsongs does not compute. What are you talking about? 😂
@@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.
Thanks for adding year she did this.
Wow! So applicable to today.
🥰👍❤️🙏🏻💕💎
hilarious. I find her so refreshing!
Different year, same problems. 🤦♀️
I JUST LO V E U !!❤😂😂❤😂
What amazes/concerns ME....SHE did that whole show without any water/beverage 🤔🧐
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
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Absolutely. I love her work on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
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 -
seriously, my favourite crowd worker of all time. paula is SO laser focussed and unrelenting in her pursuit of great crowd work gags.
Nebraska Furniture wouldn't hire me because I was handicapped and would have to show people around the showroom floor in a motorized wheelchair
She was making that point... person in wheelchair only for the ad... not in real life. Very sad. 😢
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...
who put the blind guy with the good hearing in the front? lol
what's with the poor picture quality? It ruins it for the rest of us/
I wonder if the guy in the balcony got his phone back, and in one piece.
Cell phones are sturdy
❤
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 .
02:56 Burl Ives matter.
2023 here: Yeah, history repeats.
Wow, watching in 2022. Second Amendment, nothing's changed!
My thoughts exactly. She was pretty right on about most of it, actually.
😢😢 Politicians and lawmakers owned by NRA.
Watching in 2023 and nothings changed, only worse.
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!!
I bet I'm the only person who got the Mr. Muckle joke!
WC Fields movie, the blind man I missed hearing the joke but I remember that character for sure
What year was this?
1996
A long time ago
@@sophiabeatty3270 duh
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
Did the dude that tossed the brick of a cell phone get a functional phone back?
(Guns) -And 3 years after this, the Columbine shootings happened. It hadn’t slowed down since.
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"
"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."
Ahead of her time.
She makes a lousy philosopher but she is truly funny.