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Paula Poundstone's Secret To Winning 'Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!'
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Comedian Paula Poundstone is concerned she will have to whisper her act at the Miller Theater in Augusta Friday.
"Because of the golf," she told us in a hushed voice.
Such a quiet routine would be a departure from Poundstone's typically boisterous commentary on NPR's weekly news quiz "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" She's been a panelist on the show more than 200 times, but told us she holds the "Wait Wait" record for losses.
On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott speaks with Paula Poundstone.
Poundstone thinks her losing streak might have something to do with the way she preps. She reads the New York Post.
"If you were to just go on and for every question you're asked you say Afghanistan or Trump, you're going to do pretty good. And then just at the very end, throw in 'lemurs down his pants,'" Poundstone told us. "And you'll probably come in second. Out of three."
On Second Thought's Virginia Prescott caught up with Poundstone before her show in Augusta. She talked with Poundstone about being the first woman to perform at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 1992, and her "unscientific" study of the secret to happiness.
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