A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat. -Lily Tomlin Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known. -Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice Is there a secret to happiness asks comedian Paula Poundstone. I don't know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be Is it deceptively simple Does it melt at a certain temperature Can you buy it Must you suffer for it before or after In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights-the pursuit of happiness. Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her hou