# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paula-poundstone
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:14:14.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paula-poundstone"
name: "Paula Poundstone"
slug: "paula-poundstone"
description: "Paula Poundstone is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer, and commentator. In the late 1980s, she performed the first of several HBO comedy specials. She provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She is the host of the podcast Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, which is the successor to the National Public Radio program Live from the Poundstone Institute. She is a frequent panelist on NPR's weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, and was a recurring guest on the network's A Prairie Home Companion variety program during Garrison Keillor's years as host."
tagline: "American stand-up comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PaulaPoundstoneByPhilKonstantin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.86
  momentum:             15
  historical:           11.764516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/paulapoundstone"
    handle:    "paulapoundstone"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/paulapoundstone/"
    handle:    "paulapoundstone"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/PaulaPoundstone"
    handle:    "PaulaPoundstone"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005323/"
    handle:    "nm0005323"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://paulapoundstone.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Paula Poundstone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پولا پوندستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Poundstone"
    title: "Paula Poundstone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Poundstone"
    title: "Paula Poundstone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Poundstone"
    title: "Paula Poundstone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Poundstone"
    title: "Paula Poundstone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Poundstone"
    title: "Paula Poundstone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4%EB%9D%BC_%ED%8C%8C%EC%9A%B4%EB%93%9C%EC%8A%A4%ED%86%A4"
    title: "폴라 파운드스톤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Poundstone"
    title: "Paula Poundstone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Паундстоун, Пола"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%84%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%DA%88_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%B9%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "پاؤلا پاؤنڈ اسٹون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paula_Poundstone"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a844db77-3e27-4cfb-b66c-edde8e7ee8fb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372564"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump