Paula Poundstone
Biography
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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Acting History
2024
Have I Got News for You as Self
2024Inside Out 2 as Forgetter Paula (voice)
2021Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated as Self
2018Summer Camp Island as Paulette (voice)
2016The Comedy Club as Self
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
2015Inside Out as Forgetter Paula (voice)
20143 Still Standing
2013Why We Laugh: Funny Women as Self
2012Gotham Comedy Live as Self - Hostess
2011Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! as Self - Panelist
2006Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In as Self
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2003Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
1999Home Movies as Paula Small (voice)
1998Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
1998Hercules as Armageddon Bow (voice)
1997Science Court
1997The View as Self
1996Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard as Self
1995Cybill as Minnie Arbogast
1993Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as The Computer (voice)
1992Wisecracks
1992Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video as Self - Host
1992The Paula Poundstone Show as Self
1990Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff as Self
1989One Night Stand
1987On Location: Women of the Night as Self
1984Hyperspace as Karen
1983The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show
1982Late Night with David Letterman as Self
1975Saturday Night Live as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self