Paula Poundstone was born on December 29,1959 and is an American stand-up comedian, author, actor, interviewer, and commentator.
27 Facts About Paula Poundstone
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Paula Poundstone provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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Paula Poundstone 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.
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Paula Poundstone is a frequent panelist on NPR's weekly news quiz show Wait Wait.
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Paula Poundstone's family moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts, about a month after her birth.
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Paula Poundstone started doing stand-up comedy at open-mic nights in Boston in 1979.
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Paula Poundstone stayed in San Francisco, where she became known for improvisational sets at Holy City Zoo on Clement Street and The Other Cafe comedy club in Cole Valley.
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Paula Poundstone performed her act when Williams hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live.
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Paula Poundstone continued as a comedian and began appearing on several talk shows.
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Poundstone went on to another first with her second HBO stand-up special, Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard, taped on campus in Sanders Theatre.
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Poundstone had her own Bravo special in 2006 as part of their three-part Funny Girls series, along with Caroline Rhea and Joan Rivers, titled Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In.
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Paula Poundstone worked as a political correspondent for The Tonight Show during the 1992 US Presidential campaign and did field pieces for The Rosie O'Donnell Show in 1996.
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Paula Poundstone was then featured in her own variety show, The Paula Poundstone Show, on ABC.
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Paula Poundstone appeared on Hollywood Squares and was a regular panelist for the remake of To Tell the Truth.
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Paula Poundstone had a recurring role in Cybill Shepherd's TV series Cybill.
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Paula Poundstone voiced Judge Stone on Science Court, an edutainment cartoon series done in the Squigglevision style that aired on Saturday mornings, on ABC Kids in 1997.
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Between the show's 1999 UPN cancellation and 2000 revival on Cartoon Network, Paula Poundstone chose to leave the show and was replaced by Janine Ditullio.
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Paula Poundstone is known for never doing the same act twice and spontaneously interacting with the crowd.
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An avid reader, Paula Poundstone has been the National Spokesperson for the American Library Association's "United for Libraries" since 2007.
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Paula Poundstone is No 88 on Comedy Central's 2004 list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time.
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Paula Poundstone began serving as a foster parent in the 1990s.
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Paula Poundstone has fostered eight children, and eventually adopted two daughters and a son.
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In October 2001, Paula Poundstone was charged with felony child endangerment in connection with driving while intoxicated with her children in the car.
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Paula Poundstone was charged with three counts of lewd acts upon a girl younger than 14.
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Paula Poundstone pleaded no contest to one count of felony child endangerment.
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Paula Poundstone was barred from taking in foster children again, sentenced to five years of probation and six months in rehabilitation, and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and a child-abuse program, and receive random drug and alcohol tests.
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In 2002, Paula Poundstone talked about her personal responsibility for the events that led to her arrest and the steps she has taken, including a six-month treatment program for alcoholism, but she said that she did not commit any lewd acts or child abuse.