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Paula Poundstone

Paula Poundstone

Born: 1959-12-29

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.

Filmography
Inside Out 2 poster
Inside Out 2
2024 • Forgetter Paula (voice)
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated poster
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
2021 • Self
The Comedy Club poster
The Comedy Club
2016 • Self
Inside Out poster
Inside Out
2015 • Forgetter Paula (voice)
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3 Still Standing
2014
Why We Laugh: Funny Women poster
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
2013 • Self
Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In poster
Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In
2006 • Self
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Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard
1996 • Self
Wisecracks poster
Wisecracks
1992
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Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video
1992 • Self - Host
Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff poster
Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff
1990 • Self
On Location: Women of the Night poster
On Location: Women of the Night
1987 • Self
Hyperspace poster
Hyperspace
1984 • Karen
The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show poster
The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show
1983