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One of America's top comediennes since breaking onto the scene in the early 1990s, Paula Poundstone is one busy lady. With all she has going on, the award-winning performer, author and NPR personality still finds time for the stand-up stage. Paula's winning sense of humor and intelligent, incisive wit have left millions howling with laughter.
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Paula Poundstone continues to be one of the countries funniest stand-up comics working today. She is a veteran of "The Tonight Show," "David Letterman." Her unmatched spontaneity, quick wit and her ability to improvise with her audience is legendary.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Michael Bolton and one of today's foremost topical humorists, Paula Poundstone, will entertain American Cancer Society guests celebrating the Great American SmokeOut on November 19, 1998. The black-tie fundraiser, "A Night on Paradise," will be held aboard Carnival Cruise Lines' new Paradise, the world's first smokefree cruise ship. Presiding as ship godmother over the christening ceremony will be American Cancer Society's reigning "Mother of the Year" and CBS News anchor Paula Zahn. SmithKline Beecham, corporate sponsor for the nationwide Great American SmokeOut, is sponsor of "A Night on Paradise." Proceeds benefit cancer research and education programs. The gala culminates a day-long series of SmokeOut events aboard ship, beginning at 8:00 a.m., which encourage all smokers to quit, young people not to start, and work sites to go smokefree. "A Day & a Night on Paradise" is the inaugural event of the MS Paradise, which Carnival Cruise Lines donated to the American Cancer Society for the Great American SmokeOut.
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Appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone, and a can of Diet Pepsi, Paula Poundstone is famous for her razor-sharp wit and spontaneity. By 1990, she had starred in several comedy specials for HBO and appeared on Saturday Night Live. Paula’s first one-hour HBO special, “Cats, Cops, and Stuff,” made her the first woman to ever receive the Cable ACE for best standup comedy special. She ... starred in a self-titled talk show series for HBO for which she won her second Cable ACE Award. In 1992, Poundstone forsook what she considered the ‘staid’ 5-minute standup set on late night talk-shows for something she thought would be more real with the audience and filed memorable field commentary of the Presidential Election for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This led to her own show on ABC, aptly named, “The Paula Poundstone Show,” and behind-the-scenes coverage of that year’s EMMY Awards for which she was critically acclaimed.
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Actress Paula Poundstone was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts on December 29th 1959. She made her debut in the Star-Wars spoof, Hyperspace in 1984. In 1993 she hosted her own talk show called The Paula Poundstone show. She has several Foster Children and was herself a Foster Child when she was young.
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