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Paula Poundstone

American stand-up comedian · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1959 · age 66

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.

Paula Poundstone is read about 376 times a day, in 11 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.

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2024Have I Got News for YouSeriesInside Out 2Film, 2024Forgetter Paula (voice)2021Monty Python's Best Bits CelebratedFilm2018Emperor Has No Clothes AwardAward2016The Comedy ClubFilm2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSeriesInside OutFilm, 2015Forgetter Paula (voice)20143 Still StandingFilm2013Why We Laugh: Funny WomenFilm2011Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!Series2006“I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.”In their words7 November 2006Bravo channel

Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged InFilm, 2006Writer2005The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSeries1999Home MoviesSeries, Paula Small (voice)1997Science CourtSeries1996Paula Poundstone Goes to HarvardFilm, Writer1995Comic Relief VIIFilm1993Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of SupermanSeries, The Computer (voice)1992The Paula Poundstone ShowSeriesKellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy VideoFilm1990Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and StuffFilm, Writer1988“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.”In their words"Women of the Night", HBO, 1988.

1987On Location: Women of the NightFilm1984HyperspaceFilm, Karen1983The 8th Annual Young Comedians ShowFilm1982Late Night with David LettermanSeries1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSeries1959Born29 December 1959

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  1. 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, Own words

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Awards

Emperor Has No Clothes Award2018

About this person

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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Born 1959 · age 66

In the same film or series as Paula

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