Kristen Schaal

Early life

Schaal was born on January 24, 1978, in Longmont, Colorado, to a Lutheran family of Dutch ancestry. She was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado.

Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996. She has a brother, David, born in 1975. and graduated from Northwestern University. She then moved to New York in 2000 to pursue a comedy career. In 2005, she had her first break when she was included in the New York article "The Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of".

Career

Live comedy

In 2006, Schaal performed at the 2006 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where she won the award for "Best Alternative Comedian". She was also the winner of the second annual Andy Kaufman Award (hosted by the New York Comedy Festival), Best Female Stand-up at the 2006 Nightlife Awards in New York City, and "Best Female Stand Up Comedian" at the 2007 ECNY Awards. At the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, she won the Barry Award for her show Kristen Schaal As You Have Probably Never Seen Her Before, tying with Nina Conti. Also in 2006, Schaal appeared on the first season of the Comedy Central show Live at Gotham. She co-hosts the weekly variety show Hot Tub in Los Angeles, which was voted "Best Variety Show of 2005" by a Time-Out New York's readers poll. She also performs at the Peoples Improv Theater on the improv team, "Big Black Car". She is a founding member of the theatre company The Striking Viking Story Pirates, which adapts stories by children into sketches and songs.

Schaal performed live at the Edinburgh Fringe 2007, where she was one of six acts (chosen from over two hundred American productions at the Fringe) requested to perform at the US Consul General-sponsored "Fringe USA" Showcase.

On her return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008, Schaal was nominated for the If.comedy award for Kristen Schaal And Kurt Braunohler: Double Down Hearts.

Schaal has also performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008 in aid of Amnesty International, and at the Bonnaroo 2009 music festival. In 2010, Schaal appeared as a stand-up comic on John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show and at the Solid Sound Festival at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Film, TV, and radio

In 2001, Schaal had a bit role in the film Kate & Leopold. Schaal appeared on HBO's Flight of the Conchords as the stalker-fan Mel, a role which earned her an EWwy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2009. She was also a credited consultant and writer for Season 11 of South Park, and appeared on the BBC's Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

She made her first appearance as a "special commentator" on Comedy Central's The Daily Show on March 13, 2008, often presented in recurring appearances as its news team's "Senior Women's Issues Correspondent". In 2008, she made an appearance on Good News Week during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In October 2008 she appeared in Amnesty International's The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008. She also appeared on an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about sexual education, talking about abstinence and non-abstinence only education.

Other film and television credits include Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Snake 'n' Bacon, Norbit, Get Him to the Greek, Conviction, Cheap Seats, Freak Show, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Adam and Steve, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Delirious, Good News Week (Australia), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Education of Max Bickford, Comedy Central's Contest Searchlight, Ugly Betty, How I Met Your Mother, MTV's Human Giant, and Mad Men. She was a contributor to the sketch/music series The Nighttime Clap on the Fuse music network.

She appeared on Fuse's original comedy series The P.A. She appeared in two TV pilots written and directed by Jersey City comedian Dan McNamara – The Calderons and Redeeming Rainbow, both of which were screened as official selections at the 2006 and 2007 New York Television Festivals. She appeared in television commercials for T-Mobile, Wendy's, RadioShack, Starburst, Sony Xperia, and Zaxby's. She made an appearance, in April 2008, on the IFC sketch comedy show The Whitest Kids U' Know. On April 3, 2009, she taped an episode of Comedy Central Presents. From 2010 to 2015, she added her voice to the PBS Kids GO! series WordGirl as Victoria Best, a child prodigy whose parents taught her to be the best at everything that she does. Schaal voiced 12-year-old Mabel Pines on Disney Channel's hit TV series Gravity Falls from 2012 to 2016. Since 2011, she has voiced the character Louise on the FOX Network series Bob's Burgers.

She starred in A. D. Miles' MyDamnChannel.com series Horrible People. In October 2008, Schaal appeared in an episode of Spicks and Specks. On June 10, 2009, Schaal broadcast her first radio show, High Five!!, on Sirius XM Radio's 'RawDog' channel with co-host Kurt Braunohler. Schaal stars in her own web series, Penelope Princess of Pets, one episode of which doubled as the video for the New Pornographers' "Mutiny, I Promise You". She voiced Trixie the Triceratops in Toy Story 3 and Pumpkin Witch and Palace Witch in Shrek Forever After. She was also in the music video for Joey Ramone's "New York City." She also guest-starred in the Modern Family episode "Fifteen Percent", as well as the music video for "Conversation 16" by The National. Schaal guest starred on the MC Frontalot album Solved. She was featured with Kurt Braunohler on the Radiolab episode "Loops". Schaal was in a commercial for the Xperia Play version of Minecraft.

Schaal guest starred on The Simpsons May 8, 2011, episode "Homer Scissorhands," in which she plays Taffy, a love interest of Milhouse Van Houten. She is incorrectly listed in the credits as "Kristen Schall". This prompted Simpsons writers to issue her a unique apology on the next week's episode in which Bart's chalkboard joke in the intro to the show states "It's Kristen Schaal, not Kristen Schall." Schaal voiced Shannon, a girl who goes on a date with Gru, in Despicable Me 2; she then appeared in a music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's 2014 song "Tacky", a parody of Pharrell Williams' "Happy". In 2013, Schaal guest starred in the two-part episode "Sea Tunt" of Archer, lending her voice to a character named Tiffy. In 2014, Schaal co-starred alongside Casey Wilson, Danielle Schneider, Tymberlee Hill, Andrea Savage, and Angela Kinsey in the first season of the Hulu original series The Hotwives of Orlando. She co-starred alongside Will Forte in the FOX comedy The Last Man on Earth, which premiered on March 1, 2015.

Schaal also voices the character Sarah Lynn in the Netflix original animated series BoJack Horseman. In 2017, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for her performance as Sarah Lynn. Schaal appeared in A Walk in the Woods (2015) as hiker Mary Ellen. In 2016, Schaal was a panelist on episode 1 of the British comedy show The Big Fat Quiz of Everything, a spinoff of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year. Schaal voices Molly in the Snap Originals series Death Hacks, co-starring with Thomas Middleditch. In 2020, she played the daughter of George Carlin's character in the sequel Bill & Ted Face the Music and guested on the first episode of Netflix's Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun. Schaal was featured in the episode "The Plantars Check In" in the animated series Amphibia in which she voiced Bella the Bellhop. Schaal appeared as a guest star in Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? on the episode "The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!". Schaal was featured on the episode "Dead Mall" in the animated series Bless the Harts where she voiced Stacey. Schaal starred as Number Two in the Disney+ series The Mysterious Benedict Society and appears as the Guide on the FX series What We Do in the Shadows.

Books

Schaal wrote a book of humor, The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex, with her husband, former Daily Show writer Rich Blomquist. It was published in July 2010 by Chronicle Books. She originally intended for them to write the book under pseudonyms, "because I don't want anyone to imagine me doing those things", but realized it would be harder to promote the book without using their real names.

Personal life

Schaal has been married to comedy writer Rich Blomquist since 2012. In 2018, she gave birth to a daughter named Ruby. As of 2020, they live in Los Feliz.

In 2017, during a charity stream hosted by Ethan Klein, Schaal revealed that she had suffered an ectopic pregnancy and a ruptured fallopian tube during an unspecified recording session for Gravity Falls, losing at least two liters of blood, and she underwent emergency surgery after being rushed to the hospital.

Filmography

Film

Television

Games

Audio

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

References

1. "StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Science of Sex".
2. "Kristen Schaal". The Times of India.
3. Patterson, John. (October 15, 2010). "Kristen Schaal: The toast of American comedy".
4. (March 23, 2008). "The Kooky Monster".
5. Wilstein, Matt. (August 5, 2021). "Kristen Schaal on Getting Fired from 'South Park' After a Month". The Daily Beast.
6. Todd, Charlie. (September 26, 2005). "The Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of".
7. "Kristen Schaal Flight of the Conchords on SBS". SDS.
8. Emma Ainley-Walker. (July 28, 2008). "The Kult of Kristen". [[The Skinny (magazine).
9. Argetsinger, Amy. (October 15, 2014). "Kristen Schaal and other young comics in the spirit of Andy Kaufman". [[The Washington Post]].
10. (February 10, 2011). "4th Annual ECNY Award Winners".
11. Kent, Melissa. (April 13, 2008). "Top comics grin and share the main prize".
12. Strachan, Alex. (October 17, 2009). "Live at Gotham a Prerequisite for the Big Time".
13. Shatkin, Elina. (April 1, 2013). "Witty When Wet: A New Show Gets Into The Hot Tub". LA Magazine.
14. McCarthy, Sean L.. (June 17, 2014). "Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen is recording a live album with Kill Rock Stars". The Comics Comic.
15. "Big Black Car & The Baldwins". Timeout.com.
16. Simonson, Robert. (October 21, 2003). "Irving the Frog, New Musical by I Sing Composer, Debuts Off-Broadway". Play Bill.
17. Didcock, Barry. (July 17, 2011). "Kristen Schaal gets in hot water with new Edinburgh Fringe show". Herald Scotland.
18. (August 20, 2008). "Edinburgh Festival If.comedy award shortlist announced".
19. (June 11, 2009). "Bonnaroo 2009 starts – be there or stream it (full schedule)". Brooklyn Vegan.
20. (February 5, 2010). "Kristen Schaal - Inside the Mattress - John Oliver's New York". Chortle.
21. Cella, Mary. (August 20, 2010). "Wilco's Solid Sound Festival a success". [[CNN]].
22. Gottsegen, Will. (October 16, 2018). "Wilco Announce Solid Sound Festival 2019". [[Spin (magazine).
23. (23 September 2005). "The Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard of - Nymag".
24. "BBC Two - Kate and Leopold".
25. Nolfi, Joey. (August 5, 2021). "Kristen Schaal reveals why she got fired from South Park after one month".
26. Powers, Nicole. (December 10, 2008). "Kristen Schaal: Confessions of a Disappointed Hillary Supporter".
27. Kurp, Joshua. (November 11, 2011). "Checking In...with the Writers of South Park Not Named Matt or Trey". Vulture.
28. "Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Series 21, Episode 4". [[BBC]].
29. Browning, Laura M.. (July 29, 2016). "The history of female political candidates, according to Kristen Schaal". [[The A.V. Club]].
30. "Awards Melbourne International Comedy Festival".
31. Dornbush, Jonathon. (August 10, 2015). "Last Week Tonight sex ed video includes Laverne Cox, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal".
32. Goodwillie, Ian. (May 14, 2020). "Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The 10 Most WTF Moments On The Crazy Adult Swim Show".
33. Palmieri, Lea. (January 24, 2018). "Woman Crush Wednesday: Kristen Schaal Is A Comedy Unicorn".
34. Schuster, Mike. (February 25, 2011). "Jason Sklar on Cheap Seats' Legacy".
35. Robinson, Tasha. (October 22, 2009). "Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant".
36. Gonzalez, Ed. (December 21, 2005). "Review: Adam and Steve".
37. Phipps, Keith. (August 13, 2009). "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard".
38. Sarah Jae Leiber. (September 22, 2020). "Delirious: The Director's Cut Comes to DVD & VOD This October".
39. Kettle, James. (January 16, 2009). "The girl can't help it".
40. Ryan, Kyle. (November 13, 2007). "Kristen Schaal".
41. Sharma, Aayush. (June 25, 2021). "'The Mysterious Benedict Society' Full Cast List: Meet Tony Hale and others from Disney+ show".
42. Mathews, Liam. (July 28, 2014). "The Good, the Bad, and the Deeply Strange: Comedy Central's One-Season Wonders".
43. Dalton, Stephen. (May 9, 2009). "Guest list: Flight of the Conchords comedian Kristen Schaal".
44. Wiese, Jason. (January 25, 2021). "Lin-Manuel Miranda And 20 Other Actors You May Have Forgotten Were On How I Met Your Mother".
45. Bergstrom, Jeff. (May 21, 2007). "Flight of the Conchords, Human Giant, Kristen Schaal, Your Favorite Comedians, Michael Showalter, Brian Posehn & Mastodon".
46. Sean L. McCarthy. (February 6, 2017). "Kristen Schaal T-Mobile Super Bowl commercials".
47. Cheney, Alexandra. (March 25, 2011). "Kristin Schaal On Her 'Kittenliscious' Sony Ericsson {{as written".
48. Bergstrom, Jeff. (April 21, 2008). "Klaus Kinski's Comedy Canon (04/21/08)".
49. McCarthy, Sean L. (April 3, 2009). "Comedy Central Presents: Kristen Schaal".
50. Liu, Ed. (June 10, 2009). "Scholastic Media Renews "WordGirl" for 26 More Episodes".
51. (May 2012). "Gravity Falls". Disney Channel Media Net.
52. (July 24, 2020). "Weirdmaggedon 3: Take Back The Falls".
53. "Bob's Burgers Cast". Zap2it.
54. McCarthy, Sean L.. (February 11, 2008). "Horrible People debuts". The Comics Comic.
55. Cahill, Mikey. (April 18, 2018). "Barry Award shortlist: Nominees' comedy secrets revealed". News.com.
56. Brophy-Warren, Jamin. (June 10, 2009). ""Flight of the Conchords" Meets "South Park" on Satellite Radio".
57. (June 2008). "Kristen Schaal (Comedian)".
58. Chen, David. (October 12, 2009). "Lee Unkrich Announces Kristen Schaal and Blake Clark Cast in Toy Story 3; Toy Story 3D Double Feature To Stay in Theaters".
59. "Palace Witch - Shrek Forever After". Behind the Voice Actors.
60. Stillman, Josh. (September 25, 2012). "Joey Ramone's new video for 'New York City' - Watch It Here".
61. Todd VanDerWerff, Emily. (January 21, 2010). "Modern Family: "Fifteen Percent"". [[The A.V. Club]].
62. Mapes, Jillian. (March 9, 2011). "'Mad Men's' John Slattery Stars in The National's 'Conversation 16'".
63. Anderson, Kyle. (March 10, 2011). "The National's 'Conversation 16' Video: The Key Scene". [[MTV]].
64. "MC Frontalot Problems: Ms. Schaal". [[AllMusic]].
65. "Kristen Schaal".
66. Hatfield, Don. (October 11, 2011). "'Daily Show' Contributor Kristen Schaal Wants You To Build Her A Minecraft alace". [[MTV]].
67. McCarthy, Sean L.. (May 16, 2011). "The Simpsons apologizes for misspelling Kristen Schaal's name with a shout-out in episode's intro". The Comics Comic.
68. Lipshutz, Jason. (July 14, 2014). "'Weird Al' Yankovic Spoofs Pharrell's 'Happy' with 'Tacky': Watch".
69. Suddath, Claire. (July 21, 2014). "The Internet Should Have Killed Weird Al. It Only Made Him Stronger". [[Bloomberg BusinessWeek]].
70. Quintana, Anna. (June 13, 2016). "Danger Zone: Here Are 11 of the Best Celebrity Guest Stars to Ever Appear on 'Archer'!".
71. Saraiya, Sonia. (April 4, 2013). "Archer: "Sea Tunt: Part I"".
72. Sean L. McCarthy. (May 22, 2015). "Meet the cast of Hulu's The Hotwives of Las Vegas". The Comics Comic.
73. Ryan, Maureen. (March 2, 2015). "The Problem With 'Last Man On Earth' No One Is Talking About". The Huffington Post.
74. Paskin, Willa. (August 22, 2014). "The Longest Face".
75. "Nominees/Winners". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
76. Bowman, Jordan. (September 4, 2015). "What "A Walk in the Woods" Gets Wrong About Thru-Hiking and the Appalachian Trail".
77. (August 15, 2016). "Monday's best TV – The Big Fat Quiz of Everything; My Sheepdog and Me". [[Screen Rant]].
78. Milligan, Mercedes. (2020-08-26). "Snapchat Debuts Original Horror-Comedy Toon 'Death Hacks' from Augenblick".
79. Couch, Aaron. (July 11, 2019). "Kristen Schaal Joins 'Bill & Ted Face the Music' (Exclusive)". [[The Hollywood Reporter]].
80. Warner, Sam. (June 10, 2020). "Bill & Ted 3 writers reveal how they pay tribute to late star George Carlin". [[Digital Spy]].
81. Hough, Q.V.. (November 13, 2020). "Every Cameo In Aunty Donna's Netflix Show, Big Ol' House Of Fun". [[Screen Rant]].
82. Ramos, Dino-Ray. (June 23, 2020). "Disney Channel Renews 'Amphibia' For Season 3; Kermit The Frog, Jenifer Lewis, George Takei And More To Guest Star On Season 2".
83. Dick, Jeremy. (October 1, 2020). "Morgan Freeman Meets Mystery, Inc. in New Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? Clip".
84. Caulfield, AJ. (October 16, 2020). "Exclusive clip: It's mannequin madness on Bless the Harts' season 2 Halloween episode".
85. Petski, Denise. (April 23, 2020). "'The Mysterious Benedict Society': Hulu Drama Rounds Out Cast With Eight Series Regulars". [[Deadline Hollywood]].
86. (2021-09-03). "Kristen Schaal is a Perfect Addition to 'What We Do in the Shadows' Season 3".
87. (July 28, 2010). "The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex". [[Chronicle Books]].
88. Friedlander, Whitney. (May 6, 2016). "'Daily Show's' Rich Blomquist Signs Overall with Fox TV". Variety.
89. Schaal, Kristen. (February 11, 2018). "After years of trying and some experimental fertility treatments, Rich and I had a baby! Everyone meet Ruby!".
90. Flemming, Jack. (December 2, 2020). "Kristen Schaal gets more than she asked for Los Feliz house among the trees".
91. (September 7, 2017). "H3 Podcast #26 - Justin Roiland & Alex Hirsch Charity Special".
92. "Kristen Schaal (visual voices guide)".
93. Kit, Borys. (2012-06-22). "Kristen Schaal Joins Voice Cast of ''Cloudy 2'' (Exclusive)".
94. Snetiker, Marc. (June 28, 2016). "''Captain Underpants'' movie recruits Kristen Schaal".
95. Jaafar, Ali. (2016-05-02). "Sony's Stage 6 Films Acquires Worldwide Rights To Vera Farmiga-Christopher Plummer Road Trip Pic ''Boundaries''".
96. Wakeman, Gregory. (2015-08-17). "''Toy Story 4'' Is Definitely Bringing Back At Least One Fan Favorite".
97. N'Duka, Amanda. (2018-10-19). "''The Last Man on Earth''{{'}}s Kristen Schaal Joins Dave Bautista In ''My Spy'' Movie".
98. Grobar, Matt. (2023-02-22). "Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman & More Returning For ''My Spy'' Sequel At Prime Video; Anna Faris, Craig Robinson & Flula Borg Among New Additions".
99. Itzkoff, Dave. (May 16, 2011). "Credit Where It's Due: A 'Simpsons' Spelling Lesson". [[The New York Times]].
100. "Trixie - Toy Story 3: The Video Game". Behind The Voice Actors.
101. Weber, Rachel. (February 20, 2019). "Is that Louise Belcher running a market stall in Anthem?". [[GamesRadar+]].
102. Spangler, Todd. (July 22, 2021). "'The Sandman: Act II' on Audible Premiere Date Set, James McAvoy Returns to Lead Star-Studded Cast".
103. Gans, Andrew. (February 6, 2006). "2006 Nightlife Awards Presented at Town Hall Feb. 6".
104. (January 29, 2008). "Emerging Comics of New York (ECNY) – 2007 Winners".
105. "1st Annual Winners & Nominees".
106. "2nd annual BTVA voice actor awards 2012".
107. Amidi, Amid. (December 2, 2013). "3rd annual BTVA voice actor awards 2013".
108. "40th Annual Annie Awards Past Nominees & Winners".
109. Sean L. McCarthy. (March 6, 2014). "Here are your nominees for the 2014 American Comedy Awards: Vote now!".
110. Coggan, Devan. (February 7, 2016). "Annie Awards 2016 winners list: Inside Out takes top prizes".
111. "Kristen Schaal - Emmy Awards, Nominations and Wins". Television Academy.