Paula Poundstone
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
Hyperspace
1984
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
2013
The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show
1983
Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In
2006
3 Still Standing
2014
On Location: Women of the Night
1987
Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff
1990
Inside Out
2015
Inside Out 2
2024
Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video
1992
The Comedy Club
2016
Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard
1996
Wisecracks
1992
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
2021
The View
1997
One Night Stand
1989
Science Court
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Hollywood Squares
1998
Hercules
1998
Gotham Comedy Live
2012
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
2011
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Summer Camp Island
2018
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993
Home Movies
1999
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
The Paula Poundstone Show
1992
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Have I Got News for You
2024
Cybill
1995
Saturday Night Live
1975