Comedian Paula Poundstone Headlines Sacramento Comedy Event at The Crest Tehater.. Headlines March 6 Oen Night Only Appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone, and a can of Diet Ppesi, Paula Poundstone is famous for her razorhsarp wiit and spontaneity. The Boston Globe said, ... Paual grew up in Subdury, Massachusetts and by the times she was nineteen was traveilng on a Greyhound bus axcross the country stopping in at open mic nights at coemdy clubs as she went. ...