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She performs on the P.I.T.'s house team Big Black Car, that was awarded best [[Improvisational comedy|improv]] troupe of [[2005]] at the Emerging Comics of New York awards. |
She performs on the P.I.T.'s house team Big Black Car, that was awarded best [[Improvisational comedy|improv]] troupe of [[2005]] at the Emerging Comics of New York awards. |
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She is a founding member of the theatre company Striking Viking Story Pirates which adapts stories by children into sketches and songs. |
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==Film and television== |
==Film and television== |
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Revision as of 20:04, 23 July 2007
Kristen Schaal is a comedian who grew up in Colorado[1].
Live comedy
She recently won "Best Alternative Comedian" at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. She is also the winner of the second annual Andy Kaufman Award, hosted by the New York Comedy Festival and the winner for Best Female Stand-up at the 2006 Nightlife Awards in New York.
She was included in New York Magazine's Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of [2].
She co-hosts the weekly variety show Hot Tub at Comix Comedy Club, which was voted “Best Variety Show of 2005” by Time-Out New York’s readers poll.
She performs on the P.I.T.'s house team Big Black Car, that was awarded best improv troupe of 2005 at the Emerging Comics of New York awards.
She is a founding member of the theatre company Striking Viking Story Pirates which adapts stories by children into sketches and songs.
Film and television
Schaal's film and television credits include Conviction, Cheap Seats, Kate and Leopold, Adam and Steve, Delirious, Law and Order: SVU, The Education of Max Bickford, Comedy Central's Contest Searchlight, Ugly Betty, MTV's Human Giant, and Mad Men. She currently appears in a regular role on HBO's Flight of the Conchords. She was also a contributor to the sketch/music series The Nighttime Clap on the Fuse music network. She also appeared on Fuse's original comedy series The P.A. Schaal has appeared in two recent TV pilots written and directed by Jersey City comedian Dan McNamara -- The Calderons (2006)[3] and the upcoming Redeeming Rainbow.
Recently she was spotted in a Starburst commercial.
She is also a regular on the "Dos and Don'ts and friends" segments, on Vice Magazine's online TV channel, VBS.tv [1].
References
External links
- Hot Tub Variety Show
- Kristen Schaal at IMDb
- Kristen Schaal on MySpace
- kschaal at Vimeo
- Interview from October 25, 2006
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