Paula Poundstone

Paula Poundstone is an American standup comedian, author, actress, interviewer and commentator. Beginning in the late 1980s, she performed a series of onehour 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 Radios weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Dont Tell Me.

Poundstone was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the daughter of Vera, a housewife, and Jack Poundstone, an engineer. Her family moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts, about a month after her birth. Poundstone attended LincolnSudbury Regional High School, but dropped out before obtaining her diploma. Her jobs have included busing tables at an IHOP and working as a bicycle messenger.

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