Paula Poundstone standup comedy 1989 - HBO One Night Stand
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- Paula Poundstone's half hour standup comedy special from 1989 is personal, political, absurd yet down-to-Earth, and just plain funny. Paula was the lighter side of such comedy specials in the late 80's, despite her clever edginess. This video includes the program intro before her routine, and HBO programming previews afterwards for maximum late 80's nostalgia. 30 years ago at the time of uploading!
Technical: Recorded on a RCA VLT386 VHS VCR in SP mono onto a Vision brand tape via average cable signal. Upconverted to 1080p60 to preserve image quality. Audio denoised and boosted, and luminance corrected.
Paula Poundstone is one of my all time favorite comedians and I wish there were a lot more of her stand-up available. The way she uses her voice, her body...I just cant get enough of her.
My fav when she gets a heckler “ it’s ok ill handle this”
I love this woman's mind. She is so calmly funny and imaginative. I love how she just takes some thought and wanders and wanders into absurdity.
It's-[R]-BLOKE!!!??? >(*U^)< *Wink*
not funny
For me, PAULA POUNSDSTONE, GOAT OF Comediennes.
True blue intelligent & breath of fresh air humor.
I adore Paula. If I ever win on "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me", it's Paula's voice I want on my voice mail! (Maybe saying "Ma'am - I'll handle this." - lol)
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dattz my dreme com tru
haha ha
😂😂😂🤣🤣👍👍
I would go on Wait Wait and play Bluff the Listener and choose Paula's story on principle alone.
Me too.
Paula rocked & worked the room in Connecticut. Awesome. She incorporates things so well eclectically. Smart comedy, intellectual
She paved the path for other female comedians. Love this woman❤️
I have been looking for this performance for years after seeing here in uk in 1990/1991 .. made me laugh just as much now as then . Thank you 👍
The '80s wasn't a very good decade for comedy (though it was the best decade IMO for music), but Paula Poundstone was absolutely one of the exceptions to that rule. Her comedy was sharp and insightful even in the decade of cheeseball comedy and she's still the first name I think of whenever someone tries to say that women can't be funny. Thank you for posting this.
I respectfully disagree. Comedy flourished in the 80's and comedy clubs flourished as well. Maybe you were in prison during the 80's but in San Francisco we had Cobb's Comedy Club and The Punch Line who featured Robin Williams and every stand up comic working. I think you should go online and do the research. No decade before or since was as good for stand-up comedians than the 80's.
So true
it was a unique decade for comedy. as far as music goes, idk if the 80s was the best, but it's def underrated. there was a lot of crap, cocaine fueled music, but there was a lot of experimentation with production techniques that we'll never hear again.
I absolutely LOVE Paula Poundstone... How did she get over-looked in the 90's Sit-Com rage.
She was in Home Movies, a improv cartoon show I grew up with. I mean you know talent when you hear, that why Im on the channel today. Wanted to learn about her roots in comedy
Right...Ellen who? I would have watched Paula.
😊 one thing, for sure, was that she was not totally overlooked in the 90s. On TH-cam you will find the video of her 96 performance at Harvard university.
OMG!! Back when comedians were actually funny!! I love her!
In this 1989 show she said she doesn't drink and would probably never have children. I just watched another show of hers, from 2006, in which she spoke about going to rehab for her drinking problem and of her three children. Life is strange.
Even in the beginning she was like no other. And just got better and better. She talks about common things in an obtuse way. Like Seinfeld on different. She circle back to a joke from 20 minutes prior. Brilliant mind. 2006 Bravo segment is fabulous.
WHAT KINDA QUESTION IS THAT?
I always love hearing / seeing PAULA ! She just right .
Absolute hilarious and brilliant!!! LOVE HER!
"I don't drink." yikes at that foreshadowing. but not criticizing...in fact she is one of the best comedians on the planet
That and she doesn't think she'll ever have kids, caught my attention as well. And yes, she is effing hilarious, even when she talks about her child endangerment plea and alcoholism recovery.
WELL GOT MY DAILY PAULA POUNSDSTONE DOSE...PERHAPS I'LL TAKE AN EXTRA POUNDSTON PILL..AW, WHOM AM I KIDDING?-LOL MORE PLEASE.
SHE'S THE BEST!
I used to love HBO One Night Stands so much as a kid! At almost 50, I still reference , " Long about noon when your appetite's pokin at ya pokin at you" all the time 🤣🤣🤣
This is great! Lovelovelove Paula Poundstone, and it's really fun to see the old graphics and bumper material. Thank you!
Over 20 years ago I saw her Live in Las Vegas.. Was really funny..
Paula Poundstone.....What a classy lady!....Here I am surfing youtube and bored to hell. Then I see this funny woman's picture on the right of my screen.
I've heard about her on NPR's Wait Wait show. I click on the picture.
Wellah....I'm watching this woman's comedy show. Videoing from a club in San Fran.
I'm on my couch. Hurt my knee early on in the day. Am in pain, having a few Jack Daniel's to "Kill" the pain.
This woman had me laughing my azz off!! to a point where I had to move my injured knee a bit. Because I was slapping it when she hit the punch line!!...
Ms. Paula Poundstone......Thanks for making me laugh. And forgetting the pain in my knee!
You're quite the Lady! :>)
Her stuff is timeless. I was interested to see if it was in inappropriate but it's perfect.❤
Class and wit... LOOOOOVE me some Poundstone with a long "O!" 😂🤣🤣😍👍👍
I remember watching this when it aired in the summer of 1989.
I remember Bob Nelson
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That one was quite successful.
The best white female stand-up / slouch about / lay down comedian ever! I'm so glad she exists. None of that super-clichéd "men are like this and all want that"-nonsense.
Thank you ever so for this excellent upload!
Wow, just read about the effort you put into converting and uploading, am awed. Subscribed. Thank you very much indeed!
lol @ "best white female stand-up" wow no racism there. best female stand-up period bro, get over it
Wow amazing and timeless, non stop laughs, she’s such a natural. The jokes just keep spilling out and then she totally picks up the pace in the last half hour and totally crushes it.
I grew up on Paula Poundstone, Elaine Boosler & Rosie O'Donnell. Not many female comics out there that don't rely on raunchy humor for every, single bit like these ladies did. Oh yeah, Kathleen Milligan is friggin' hilarious too!
And Rita Rudner.
It's Kathleen Madigan in case anyone is looking for other outstanding female comics.
She also has a podcast. She refers to it as her 'Pubcast'. She's definitely another one to check out!
What had I never heard of her? She is great.
When I say I love PP - it means Paula Poundstone!
Even when she cusses she does it with class.
I hope to meet her one day. She is the best!
You can hear her almost every weekend on" wait ,wait don't tell me." It is an NPR radio program
I absolutely love Paula Poundstone. She's one of my favorite comediennes of all time. I love it when she wears those suits and ties and tuxedos when she does her stand up specials.
Thanks for the upload! She cracks me up
Yes thank you!!
Her humor is so "clean" and totally does not rely on profanity. Intelligence.
boy i’d love to tame her shrew. 😉💋
i watched and after a few minutes are you sure that’s a her ? my grampa says it’s a boy.
@@timmyshore3755 son your peepaw is a hater
True...the most talented comedians are the clean ones.
She literally swears like 3 times in this special alone. And makes jokes about suicide. And drugs.
I still use one of her lines. We can't have nice things!
She is under rated. Let's get her viral peoples. Um I need a young person to help make this happen.
Wish I heard of her before...shes hilarious.
Listen to her podcast! It's called Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. Really great stuff❤️
Paula’s humor is timeless 💙
Love Paula Poundstone she is an awesome comedian
Hello. Paula, where are you? Hope to see you soon. You are the best!!!!
Paula add Libs about 90% of her act… Not just anyone can do that
late 80's humor "The coffee was so bad, I thought it was poisoned, so I actually spit it out!"
audience: OH MY GOD AHAHAAAAA POISON COFFEE BUT IT WAS JUST BAD HAHAHAAA
Wow - back in the day when one could smoke at a public event....anyway v sunny to hear Paula
We've been dancing with Paula Poundstone. She's been knocking; she won't leave me alone
Great, now GnR is stuck in my head! 🤣
Hee he, clever😜
Paula gets to the venue around seven, gets on the stage around nine
And she don’t worry bout nuthin no cause worry’s a waste of her time
I miss H.B.O. stand-up comedy specials.
Me too!
Me three!
Im here from the future
She’s going to make you laugh for decades
Paula is a perfectly wonderful stand up comic and she's very lovely and very beautiful also.
Beautiful !
I’m just lmao all by myself in bed trying to be quiet lol so my partner can sleep hahahahaha
O love her crazy voice. :)
thank you
legend
Forever an icon.
good stuff, sirhan sirhan is still alive and still in jail. he's been denied parole 16 times, the last in 2021, after 53 years in jail he was awarded parole, 2 of kennedy's kids supported it, 6 did not, governor newsom denied his parole, sirhan is 78 years old (2022). i live in florida and you frequently see signs that say, "do not feed or molest alligators." i had the same reaction, "do i not know the real definition of molestation?"
I wish Paula was my bestie.
I laugh like crazy everytime I listen to Paula Poundstone vids even though I practically know them by heart. Does anyone know of new videos of hers?
Not new, but new to me. A few months ago I found a compilation of all the times she was on 'Craig Ferguson Show'.
I never watched it when it originally aired, and it is hysterical. The two of them together is a delight.
She's amazing ❤
i love the special, but when we got to the Ad's at the end, my night was made
That's where the flashbacks are! 😁
This was recorded in 1989. Her remark at 16:05 on short term memory was precient, when you consider the current pres.
I love you Paula 😍!!!!
What a great way to end a show. The standard *"My time's up., thank you goodnight"* (or similar) is too abrupt.
Me asking Paula to be my life partner...
Paula: "What kind of a question is thaaaaat"?
Side note- I dont think I used my quotation marks correctly... Jus saying...
Lofl!!! My silly humor. "No HOMO" THO Paula.
I can see how the letters above can be typoed and taken in so many wrong ways. Will they see the funny side of poor grammar skills and reply with silly comments orrrrr will some be facetiously sarcastic of my redundancy of mistakes in this post as a whole? Who knows, I know someone will whatever..... 😚😊
Lol…one of my favorite ad lib moments…sooo funny 😁 !!
Miss her ❤❤❤❤
I alwaysed like LARY BIRD !! WAY BACK THEN.
Paula was a cutie!
Have you noticed she doesn’t say fuck not even one time.
Paula I need you please keep working save me
Oh ! I laugh at everyone of her routines and I have only this week watched her videos. It's so refreshing. How old is she possibly in 2022 ?
Sadly, so little of her gigs available. The podcast is fun, though
I love Paula, esp on NPR
I love Paula Poundstone!
I couldn't stand her for so long on npr. Now I love her. She's crazy. :)
Even funnier now! Take the bit about Bush not being her president, replace the names with Trump and Hilary, and it's just as funny!
She wasn't a bad looking woman back then. And she was damn funny too.
time for her comeback
She's on tour now! A new HBO special would be cool.
@@theleeoverstreet Awesome, I'll check out here dates and try to catch her in Florida - very funny gal.
Comeback?
She's very successful and has been
Regular contributor on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
Has her own podcast which is very funny
Has never stopped touring
Etc
When I park illegally, I always give myself a fake parking ticket before the parking police do it for me.
haha, in Philly they'll keep stacking them on your windshield. I oftentimes see cars with near a dozen tickets stuffed below the wiper
Tig Notaro took that “no moleste” part and out it in her show
She was really beautiful back then
Man i wish you taped the entire series of these. The promo for the Dom Irrera session is taunting me, I wanna watch it.
I wish the same! If only I had known thousands of people would be watching my VHS tapes in 30 years. 😆📼👍
Funny funny funny🤣
Would you like a floor preference… Yes linoleum. I just made that up I’m really funny
I was told I sound like her. It’s a compliment right?
I think it is. 😃
I would take it as one.
Unfortunately she was pulled over in 2002 and she was driving drunk and did not end well
This is the first time I'm seeing this special...and I'm SHOCKED to see that "no mleste" joke, which I've heard Tig Notaro do throughout the 2010's. So Tig stole that bit. I like both of these women's comedy, but I'm shocked she stole that bit!
Swimming in San Fran bay is brisk but nice. Quick dip off Ocean Beach.
she's so cute (still is) :-)
I heard a Woody Allen influence, like @12:19 when she delivers the punchline about fleas. If you ever get a chance to talk to her, ask her about her early comedy influences. I’d love to know.
Parking, cats, what a hoot!
I drove in Italy and taught them the California Brake Light Cha Cha Cha. And her line about the legalized crime was a prophecy and she didn't even know it and she was in Frisco.
Hahahahahhaa the cats
Wow, the Tig Notaro "No moleste" joke, like 15 years prior.
worth checking it out...when I heard Paula do it recently, I thought she was stealing from Tig. thanks for the heads up. Also see paula , maria bamford and other comics and roots , blues musicians at my youtube site: go to ArtL7, then playlists. TH-cam drops URLs as spam.
This is the most 80's shit.
The streets are alive with the sound of screaming, as the bus goes right by your nose, oh no! This happened when I was a metro bus driver. She could have stepped out of her car on the sidewalk side, but did she? No. Right out into the street, with a bus right there. Instant opera with possible ensuing fainting spells!
I just watched a newer show of hers, I didn't think I knew who she was.. Now I recognize her, she looks so different now..
This show is 30 years old. Of course she look different now.
Really Ryanne??……does she look different now??……
That's interesting, even with her totally Unique Style and delivery, you still didn't recognize her?
SO SHWEEEETTT...much love Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO.[the music worldwide}
oo weee fun!!
"not poundsteen, poundstine" she predicted the mandela effect 22 years early
But wait... Everyone knows the mandela effect has been around since the 1960's...
The Mandela effect is bullshit.
what a lovely woman
She was pretty in those days.
Well, she changed her hairstyle, and gained a tiny bit of weight, but I don't think she looked very different 🤔🤔🤔
She’s humorous
I've driven in Italy. She's not far off.
YOUNG JOY BEHAR IN THE OPENING CREDITS
She was kinda pretty back in the day
Women can be anything they want to be. She is funny and brilliant. "Pretty back in the day" is a lousy thing to compliment her on.
she was very pretty. theres this thing that happens to people, we age.
ashpete21 , what does that have to do with her humor?
nuaru100 in all fairness she’s a lousy person, performed oral on a person younger than 15 but nobody talk about that
Edit: yes it was a teenage girl under 14 actually
ashpete21 kind of?? She’s gorgeous!