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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1959-12-29 (65 years old)

Place of Birth

Paula Poundstone

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

Acting

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

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

Hercules as Armageddon Bow (voice)

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

Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video as Self - Host

The Paula Poundstone Show as Self

1990

Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff as herself

1989

One Night Stand

1987

On Location: Women of the Night as Self

1984

Hyperspace as Karen

1983

The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show

1982

Late Night with David Letterman as Self

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self

Writing

2006

Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In as Writer

1996

Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard as Writer

1990

Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff as Writer