April 28, 2025
The Drew Forum Presents: Andy Borowitz
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This event is generously sponsored by the
Moderated by Paula Zahn
Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation.
The Drew Forum Presents: Andy Borowitz
Andy Borowitz
Andy Borowitz is an award-winning comedian and New York Times bestselling author. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was President of the Harvard Lampoon. He is the creator of The Borowitz Report (BorowitzReport.com), a news satire site with millions of readers around the world. He has contributed humor to The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, for which he has written over a thousand pieces. As a storyteller, he hosted “Stories at the Moth” from 1999 to 2009. As a comedian, he has played to sold-out venues around the world, including during his national tour, “Make America Not Embarrassing Again,” from 2018 to 2020. His most recent book, “Profiles In Ignorance: How Americaʼs Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber,” was an instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Indiebound bestseller, and was named one of the 7 Best Nonfiction Books of fall 2022 by Kirkus Reviews. He is the first-ever winner of the National Press Club’s humor award. He lives with his family in New Hampshire.
Paula Zahn
Ten-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Paula Zahn is the executive producer and host of Investigation Discovery’s On the Case with Paula Zahn, a weekly investigative crime show. She is also the host of THIRTEEN’s weekly arts and culture multi-platform showcase, NYC-Arts.
Zahn began her journalism career in local news, working for stations in Dallas-Fort Worth, San Diego, Houston, Boston and Los Angeles. She was first introduced to national audiences as an anchor for the news segments on ABC News’ Good Morning America. She went on to host shows for CBS News, Fox News and CNN. Zahn’s many years of reporting have not only won her the public’s trust, but many prestigious honors, including six Gracie Awards, two National Headliner Awards, recognition of her career reportage from the Museum of Television and Radio and in 2019 she received The Library
of American Broadcasting Foundation’s Giants of Broadcasting and Electronic Arts Award. Zahn has also been recognized by The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, and the Congressional Families Action for Cancer Awareness among others, for her indefatigable work in raising awareness of breast cancer.
An accomplished cellist, Zahn attended college on a cello scholarship. She has performed with renowned musicians in world class venues including with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Zahn also played at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra as it saluted outgoing conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. She later joined Maestro Rostropovich in St. Petersburg, Russia as part of the 100-cello orchestra he conducted. Zahn has had a long affiliation with Sejong Soloists and has performed with them at many venues, most notably in Seoul at Hoam Art Hall.
Zahn is on the Board of Governors of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation and a mother of three, Haley, Jared and Austin.
The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation
The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation was established in 1983 by New Brunswick philanthropist Irving Laurie. The Foundation supports a variety of projects across broad issue areas.
About the Drew Forum
For 30 years, the Drew Forum speaker series has welcomed world-renowned guests to Drew University and local communities. From past and future presidents and vice presidents, to leaders of state and policy, to Pulitzer Prize-winning historians and journalists, to comedians and astrophysicists, to newscasters and podcasters, each year the Drew Forum cedes the stage to unique perspectives, thought leaders, and changemakers.