Paula Poundstone
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 29, 1959
- Movies
- 18
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.
Best-Known Movies
Inside Out
2015
Inside Out 2
2024
Hyperspace
1984
Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff
1990
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
2013
Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In
2006
Wisecracks
1992
The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show
1983
On Location: Women of the Night
1987
The Comedy Club
2016
Filmography
| 2024 | Inside Out 2 | Forgetter Paula (voice) |
| 2021 | Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated | Self |
| 2016 | The Comedy Club | Self |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Forgetter Paula (voice) |
| 2014 | 3 Still Standing | |
| 2013 | Why We Laugh: Funny Women | Self |
| 2006 | Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In | Self |
| 1996 | Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard | Self |
| 1995 | Comic Relief VII | Self |
| 1992 | Wisecracks | |
| 1992 | Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video | Self - Host |
| 1990 | Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff | Self |
| 1987 | On Location: Women of the Night | Self |
| 1984 | Hyperspace | Karen |
| 1983 | The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2006 | Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In | Writer |
| 1996 | Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard | Writer |
| 1990 | Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff | Writer |
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