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.

Instead Paula Poundstone continued as a comedian and began appearing on several talk shows. Poundstone stated her asexuality in an interview with the Dallas Voice in June 2007 saying "I'm totally an asexual human being. Poundstone currently works as a panelist on the radio news quiz show Wait Wait.