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Emmy Award-winning humorist Paula Poundstone headlined the panel of quick-witted and newsworthy guests that appeared on a recent live taping of the radio news quiz Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! at Beloit College. She was joined on the panel by author Roy Blount, Jr. and Boston Globe sportswriter and author Charlie Pierce. The popular National Public Radio program is heard nationally with host Peter Sagal and veteran announcer Carl Kasell.
A standing-room-only crowd greeted the show's performers at the Oct. 11 performance. The one-hour episode was broadcast on radio stations around the United States the following Saturday morning.
Paula Poundstone is one of the country's foremost topical humorists and stand-up comedians. She has provided humor and commentary for the Emmy and Oscar Awards shows, and served as "official correspondent" for The Tonight Show during the 1992 Presidential race. Poundstone has earned two Cable ACE Awards, an Emmy and the American Comedy Awards' Best Female Stand-Up award. Her writing credits include Mother Jones magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly and Glamour.
Roy Blount, Jr. is the author of 20 books, most recently Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South, and including Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, Robert E. Lee, If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You, Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor and Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story. He was accompanied at the broadcast by artist Joan Griswold, his wife and a 1977 graduate of Beloit College.
Charlie Pierce is a writer for The Boston Globe. His book, Sports Guy, is a collection of sports writing with an introduction by Roy Blount, Jr., published by DeCapo Press. He is also a regular on Only A Game from National Public Radio and WBUR in Boston. Pierce's writing appears in numerous other publications and has been collected in The Best American Sportswriting.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me was brought to Beloit College as a highlight of the College's 2007-08 International Performing Arts and Lecture Series. For information about upcoming series events, log on to www.beloit.edu/~ipals.