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| Paula Poundstone | |
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 Poundstone in 2008 | |
| Born | December 29, 1959 Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. |
| Medium | Standup comedy, television, radio, print, internet |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Genres | standup, improvisational comedy, crowd work, voice acting, commentator, interviewer |
| Subject(s) | Observational humor |
| Children | 3 |
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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 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.