Paula Poundstone

American stand-up comedian

Paula Poundstone is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer, and commentator. She has performed a series of one-hour HBO comedy specials and is a frequent panelist on NPR’s news quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. Paula Poundstone also hosts the podcast Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone.

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About the Paula Poundstone

Paula Poundstoneis 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 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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Paula Poundstone was born on December 29, 1959.

Paula Poundstone is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer, and commentator.

Paula Poundstone provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and was a recurring guest on the NPR program A Prairie Home Companion.

Paula Poundstone hosts the podcast Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, which is the successor to the National Public Radio program Live from the Poundstone Institute.

Paula Poundstone is a frequent panelist on NPR’s weekly news quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me.

Beginning in the late 1980s, Paula Poundstone performed a series of one-hour HBO comedy specials.

Paula Poundstone was a recurring guest on the NPR program A Prairie Home Companion during Garrison Keillor’s years as host.