Paula Poundstone
December 29, 1959 (64 years old) in
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
Credits
- 2024 · Inside Out 2 as Forgetter Paula (voice)
- 2021 · Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated as Self
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Paulette (voice)
- 2016 · The Comedy Club as Self
- 2015 · Inside Out as Forgetter Paula (voice)
- 2014 · 3 Still Standing as
- 2013 · Why We Laugh: Funny Women as Self
- 2012 · Gotham Comedy Live as Self - Hostess
- 2011 · Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! as Self - Panelist
- 2006 · Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In as Self
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 1999 · Home Movies as Paula Small (voice)
- 1998 · Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
- 1998 · Hercules as Armageddon Bow (voice)
- 1997 · Science Court as
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard as Self
- 1993 · Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as The Computer (voice)
- 1992 · Wisecracks as
- 1992 · Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video as Self - Host
- 1992 · The Paula Poundstone Show as Self
- 1990 · Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff as herself
- 1989 · One Night Stand as
- 1987 · On Location: Women of the Night as Self
- 1984 · Hyperspace as Karen
- 1983 · The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show as
- 1982 · Late Night with David Letterman as Self
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self