Paula Poundstone

Acting · Born 1959-12-29

Biography

Paula Poundstone is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer and commentator. Beginning in the late 1980s, she performed a series of one-hour HBO comedy specials. She provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She is a frequent panelist on National Public Radio's weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me.

Known for

• Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated (2021)
• The Comedy Club (2016)
• 3 Still Standing (2014)
• Why We Laugh: Funny Women (2013)
• Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In (2006)
• Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard (1996)
• Comic Relief VII (1995)
• Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video (1992)
• Wisecracks (1992)
• Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff (1990)
• On Location: Women of the Night (1987)
• Hyperspace (1984)
• The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show (1983)
• Have I Got News for You (2024)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
• Gotham Comedy Live (2012)
• Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! (2011)
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
• Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
• Hollywood Squares (1998)
• The View (1997)
• Cybill (1995)
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)
• The Paula Poundstone Show (1992)