Paula Poundstone

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Age: 66, born 29 December 1959

Country of origin: United States

Currently Residing In: United States

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The Funniest Female Comedians of All Time (104 items)
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Published 10 years, 11 months ago

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Best of Home Movies (9 items)
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Published 13 years, 4 months ago

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Guests on Later with Greg Kinnear (316 items)
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Published 2 years, 8 months ago

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Comedians Interviewed on Later with Bob Costas (45 items)
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Published 2 years, 8 months ago

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MsMojo's Top 10 Female Stand Ups (10 items)
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Published 9 years, 9 months ago

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Description: Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959) 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 the host of the Maximum Fun 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 Co ... (more)