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.

Filmography

• 2024Inside Out 2 — Forgetter Paula (voice)
• Summer Camp Island — Paulette (voice)
• 2015Inside Out — Forgetter Paula (voice)
• 20143 Still Standing
• 2006Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In — Self, Writer
• Home Movies — Paula Small (voice)
• Hercules — Armageddon Bow (voice)
• Science Court
• 1996Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard — Self, Writer
• Cybill — Minnie Arbogast
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman — The Computer (voice)
• 1992Wisecracks
• 1990Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff — Self, Writer
• One Night Stand
• 1984Hyperspace — Karen
• 1983The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show

Appearances as themselves (18)

• Have I Got News for You — Self
• 2021Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated — Self
• 2016The Comedy Club — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Comedian
• 2013Why We Laugh: Funny Women — Self
• Gotham Comedy Live — Self - Hostess
• Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! — Self - Panelist
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist
• The View — Self
• 1995Comic Relief VII — Self
• 1992Kellogg's Pop Tarts Comedy Video — Self - Host
• The Paula Poundstone Show — Self
• 1987On Location: Women of the Night — Self
• Late Night with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self