Paula Poundstone
Known for: Acting
Born: December 29, 1959
Place of birth: —
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.
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Filmography
15 movies · 19 TV shows, newest first
6.2
Have I Got News for You
2024
7.5
Inside Out 2
2024
NR
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
2021
7.7
Summer Camp Island
2018
NR
The Comedy Club
2016
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
7.9
Inside Out
20156.0
3 Still Standing
2014
7.2
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
2013
5.5
Gotham Comedy Live
2012
5.0
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
2011
5.5
Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In
2006
6.8
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
7.6
Home Movies
1999
7.6
Hollywood Squares
1998
6.9
Hercules
1998
7.0
Science Court
1997
4.3
The View
199710.0
Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard
1996
NR
Comic Relief VII
1995
5.9
Cybill
1995
6.9
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993
8.3
Wisecracks
19924.0
Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video
1992NR
The Paula Poundstone Show
1992
7.0
Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff
1990
8.1
One Night Stand
1989
8.0
On Location: Women of the Night
1987
5.7
Hyperspace
1984
7.0
The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show
1983
6.1
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962