
Paula Poundstone
Acting
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.
TV Shows(19)

Have I Got News for You
Self
2024

Summer Camp Island
Paulette (voice)
2018

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Comedian
2015

Gotham Comedy Live
Self - Hostess
2012

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Self - Panelist
2011

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005

Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003

Home Movies
Paula Small (voice)
1999

Hollywood Squares
Self - Panelist
1998

Hercules
Armageddon Bow (voice)
1998

Science Court
1997

The View
Self
1997

Cybill
Minnie Arbogast
1995

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
The Computer (voice)
1993
The Paula Poundstone Show
Self
1992

One Night Stand
1989

Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1982

Saturday Night Live
Self
1975

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Movies(14)

Inside Out 2
Forgetter Paula (voice)
2024

Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
Self
2021

The Comedy Club
Self
2016

Inside Out
Forgetter Paula (voice)
2015
3 Still Standing
2014

Why We Laugh: Funny Women
Self
2013

Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In
Self
2006
Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard
Self
1996

Wisecracks
1992
Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video
Self - Host
1992

Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff
Self
1990

On Location: Women of the Night
Self
1987

Hyperspace
Karen
1984

The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show
1983