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.

Known For

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Real Time with Bill Maher

Saturday Night Live

The View

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Hollywood Squares

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

All Movies (15)

• Inside Out 22024 · as Forgetter Paula (voice)
• Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated2021 · as Self
• The Comedy Club2016 · as Self
• Inside Out2015 · as Forgetter Paula (voice)
• 3 Still Standing2014
• Why We Laugh: Funny Women2013 · as Self
• Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In2006 · as Self
• Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard1996 · as Self
• Comic Relief VII1995 · as Self
• Wisecracks1992
• Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video1992 · as Self - Host
• Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff1990 · as Self
• On Location: Women of the Night1987 · as Self
• Hyperspace1984 · as Karen
• The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show1983

All TV Shows (19)

• Have I Got News for You2024 · as Self
• Summer Camp Island2018 · as Paulette (voice)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Comedian
• Gotham Comedy Live2012 · as Self - Hostess
• Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!2011 · as Self - Panelist
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson2005 · as Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher2003 · as Self
• Home Movies1999 · as Paula Small (voice)
• Hollywood Squares1998 · as Self - Panelist
• Hercules1998 · as Armageddon Bow (voice)
• Science Court1997
• The View1997 · as Self
• Cybill1995 · as Minnie Arbogast
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman1993 · as The Computer (voice)
• The Paula Poundstone Show1992 · as Self
• One Night Stand1989
• Late Night with David Letterman1982 · as Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self