Paula Poundstone
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican stand-up comedian
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.
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I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.
"Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In", Bravo channel, November 7, 2006.
They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in.
About science education in the state of Kansas; quoted in cite web
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.
"Women of the Night", HBO, 1988.
Filmography 15
Inside Out 2
Inside Out
Hyperspace
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff
Wisecracks
Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In
The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show
On Location: Women of the Night
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
The Comedy Club
Comic Relief VII37 credits on file
Television 19
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Hollywood Squares
The View
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Summer Camp Island
Hercules
Late Night with David Letterman
Cybill
Home Movies
Have I Got News for You
Gotham Comedy Live
One Night Stand
Science Court
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!Awards 1
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About this person
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.
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