Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstoneis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth29 December 1959
CityHuntsville, AL
CountryUnited States of America
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.
I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.
I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.
My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'
My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer
How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.
I've had to fight very hard to get them where they belong,
It is the best part of the night. The classic (interactive) lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.
The mistakes that I made I made because I drank too much, ... I don't think that's going to happen any more. Am I going to make mistakes as a parent? Sadly, every day. I'm looking around for the perfect parent and I haven't seen one yet.
This is not the first time I've been late,
I think that's why they have so many relgious freaks in the airports...they even keep the flowers behind the counter 'Go, go my children...be fruitful and annoy.