paula poundstone

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  paula poundstone
  born: 29-dec-1959
  birthplace: huntsville, al
  
  gender: female
  religion: atheist
  race or ethnicity: white
  sexual orientation: asexual
  occupation: comic
  
  nationality: united states
  executive summary: abrasive, asexual comic
  
  paula poundstone has bused tables, and worked as a bike messenger. she started doing comedy on open-mike nights in boston in 1979. she's politically liberal, wrote for mother jones from 1993 to 1998 and covered the 1996 republican convention for the rosie o'donnell show. she's known for wearing loud neckties, and has joked for years of being in therapy. her 1993 comedy-variety paula poundstone show aired for two weeks on abc before being canceled.
  
  in 2001, poundstone was arrested for driving drunk with kids in the car, and the state took custody of her three children. she was charged with, among other things, "lewd acts on a girl under the age of 14", and though that charge was dropped, everyone involved is under a court order not to talk about it -- an ideal ingredient for career-wrecking gossip. poundstone has said only that she was drunk, she's sorry, and the "lewd acts" charge was "without foundation". the whispered but unconfirmed story is that poundstone's foster daughter made up the "lewd act". that would jibe with poundstone's public persona -- asexual, doesn't date, and she's never been romantically linked with anyone of any gender. what's known for sure is that poundstone went into rehab, cleaned up her alcoholism, has only been arrested once since, and got custody of her children back a year and a half later.
  
  she was a panelist on to tell the truth when she was first arrested, a gig she quickly lost, and her career has languished since. she still does stand-up comedy and often appears on npr's quiz show, wait, wait, don't tell me, and that's about it. "i'm now a nationally known child abuser, and believe me, what a pleasure it is to carry that moniker around".
  
  father: (electrical engineer, raytheon)
  daughter: toshia (b. 1991; adopted 1997)
  daughter: allison (b. 1994; adopted 1997)
  son: thomas
  
  high school: lincoln-sudbury regional high school, sudbury, ma (dropped out)
  
  mother jones columnist 1993-98
  alcoholics anonymous
  promises
  driving while intoxicated arrested in santa monica, ca 27-jun-2001
  child endangerment arrested in santa monica, ca 27-jun-2001, no contest
  child molestation arrested in santa monica, ca 27-jun-2001, charge dropped
  violating probation
  risk factors: alcoholism