Kristen Schaal on ‘Bob’s Burgers,’ ‘Daily Show’ and More
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
From her breakthrough performance as Mel the stalker on ‘Flight of the Conchords,’ to her long-running gig as the voice of fourth-grader Louise Belcher on ‘Bob’s Burgers,’ which just premiered its first big screen movie in theaters this past weekend, Kristen Schaal never fails to bring a unique energy to the screen. And it all begins with her unmistakable voice. In this episode, Schaal looks back on her winding road from alt-comedy darling to mainstream children’s TV star, including detours writing for ‘South Park,’ serving as the “Senior Women’s Issues Correspondent” on ‘The Daily Show’ and getting a well-deserved Emmy nomination for—what else?—her voice-over work on ‘Bojack Horseman.’
This episode was originally published on August 3rd, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and with the Bob's Berger's movie finally hitting theaters this Memorial Day weekend, I thought now would be the perfect time to revisit my conversation with the one and only Kristen Schall. |
| 0:20.0 | I spoke to Kristen, who voices Louise Belcher |
| 0:23.6 | on the long-running animated series last summer, and really had so much fun talking with her |
| 0:29.8 | about her totally unique path to comedy success. We got into everything from her breakthrough role |
| 0:36.0 | as Mel the Stocker on Flight of the Concords, |
| 0:39.0 | to her short-lived stint as a writer for South Park, to her far more successful gig as senior |
| 0:44.5 | women's correspondent on The Daily Show. |
| 0:47.6 | At the time, Kristen was promoting her role in the Mysterious Benedict Society, which is |
| 0:52.1 | returning to Disney Plus for its second season this fall. |
| 0:55.7 | This really was such a great episode, so whether you missed it the first time around or just want to |
| 1:01.1 | enjoy it again, here's me with Kristen Shaw. I'm such a big fan of yours for so long, and I'm just |
| 1:09.3 | really excited to have you on the podcast. One thing that I was |
| 1:12.6 | just when I was kind of looking back at, you know, your career and everything, the thing that I |
| 1:16.6 | could not believe is that this is the 10th anniversary year of Bob's Berger's premiering, which does |
| 1:22.5 | not seem right to me that it's been 10 years. So how does it, how does it feel to you? Does it feel like |
| 1:27.1 | it's been 10 years to you? does it, how does it feel to you? Does it feel like it's been 10 |
| 1:27.6 | years to you? No, I mean, time definitely is different. I mean, I can always go back to when we |
| 1:37.0 | first started playing around with recording together in New York. And we didn't know what, |
| 1:43.3 | what it was exactly, because it was a demo. |
| 1:46.4 | So it was just us recording like five minute sketch. |
| 1:51.8 | And then we would go get beers at the bar. |
| 1:56.2 | That was, and we did it like several times throughout like over six months a year because they kind of kept, you know, working with it and workshopping. And then I'll, my agent called and was like, when were you going to tell us about this? |
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