Paula Poundstone

Person · Open Library

Works

12

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Film & TV

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

• Inside Out 2 — Forgetter Paula (voice)2024
• Have I Got News for You — Self2024
• Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated — Self2021
• Summer Camp Island — Paulette (voice)2018
• The Comedy Club — Self2016
• Inside Out — Forgetter Paula (voice)2015
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Comedian2015
• 3 Still Standing2014
• Why We Laugh: Funny Women — Self2013
• Gotham Comedy Live — Self - Hostess2012

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1959-12-29

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,363

Total plays

35,656

Appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone, and a can of Diet Pepsi, PAULA POUNDSTONE is famous for her razor-sharp wit and spontaneity. The Boston Globe said, “Poundstone improvises with a crowd like a Jazz musician…swinging in unexpected directions without a plan, without a net.” Paula is so quick and unassuming that audience members at her live shows often leave complaining that their cheeks hurt from laughter and debating whether the random people she talked to were “plants”. <a href="h

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Paula

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Huntsville

Occupation

author

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Religion

atheism

Official website

paulapoundstone.com

Image

PaulaPoundstoneByPhilKonstantin.jpg

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