San Francisco. Kristen Schaal until recently was best known for the character of Mel, the stalker fans with attitudes from the Flight Of The Conchords, New Zealand band around which the eponymous TV series (which we can see on MTV, ed.) The conduct of the next Writers Guild Awards (February 5), may cause them to gain popularity.Meanwhile, today it's up to you to be accosted in the street by excited strangers. In the ten yards that separate it from the restaurant in downtown San Francisco where he has just eaten, and the library where he is to meet the public and sign copies of his book, the comedienne is blocked by at least three fans, one of whom practically salt by car on the sidewalk from the window and shouts: "Kristen Schaal! Oh my God.
" The 32 year-old actress is in town to promote The Book Of Sexy Sexy Sex, the manual "for a better sex life" which he wrote along with fellow Rich Blomquist, writer of John Stewart's Daily Show: "It is our challenge to Kim Cattrall ( Samantha in the Sex and the City), you know, she and her husband had written a book together female orgasm.
And I would say that in the end we won, because they later divorced. " In a blow-up in a corner of the library, the two authors, lying in white bathrobe, fixing the lens with sexy look. Just a moment to note that dall'accappatoio Schaal check of as much down to that of Blomquist. "That's me, baby: I drank a lot of coffee that day," Kristen trilling with his shrill little voice in Minnie.
"When I was too young to drink coffee, my dad always told me that I would grow hair on his chest. See? Was not wrong. " A gray dress socks peppered with dark purple and dancers, Kristen is a bit 'geek chic and a little' Pippi Longstocking. Reddish hair styled in a messy rack, the Clara Bow lips and big round eyes in shades of gray-green looks like a silent movie star.
It is prettier than how it looks on TV, but the real key to his comedy is the ability to contort his face into bizarre grimaces. After years of stand-up comedy, works as a waitress, endless hearings and public hostility, Schaal's career has reached the turning point. In television, in addition to the series Flight Of The Conchords, has appeared in Mad Men ("I was one of three receptionists, fake cigarettes smoked but threw out the smoke as they realized that in reality I have never smoked ...»), Ugly Betty, Law & Order.
In film he played just the cruel and ambitious assistant Paul Rudd Steve Carell in the comedy of Dinner with a cretin and gave voice to some characters of Toy Story 3 and Shrek 4 ('and think that the teacher of diction I criticized for having an "s" terrible! "). Obamiana convinced, after the 2008 elections has made women's issues commentator of the Daily Show (the euphemism "women's issues" is typical of her) and soon we will see in Butter, with Jennifer Garner comedy about a woman who turns out to champion butter sculptures, and now has published a book obscene.
"I've got almost everything, from romance novels like Harmony," says Schaal. As a teenager, when my body - uh! - Changed changed, I went to the library, grab a pile of those books, I sat in a corner and tried the steps dirty. " Schaal has been a serene childhood, although "slightly repressed," a cattle station in Colorado, not far from Boulder (a region half hippie and half fundamentalist).
His parents were Lutheran German extraction and has a brother three years older, whose sex video they quickly turned their adolescent fantasies. "My parents are pretty religious, but I was not forced in that direction. I consider myself a non-practicing Lutheran. Is that their faith was so important that I seem to dovergliene honor in some way.
" * P * was a strange child? "Well, of course, grow without a lot of friends on a farm near entails a certain isolation, even if it learns to entertain himself, to use your imagination. Talk to the animals, pretend that a bunch of cows and your audience, which is why I may have learned not to expect too much from the public, those cows were always silent.
I liked making up stories and scare me alone, I became convinced that all my dolls were alive and wanted to kill me, so I hid outside the home until my mother came back. In fact, yes, I think it was a strange child. " Being raised on a farm with animals was the insensitive way in addressing topics such as intercourse? "Ommiodio, yes.
I saw cows making love, one thing not to be missed. The penis of the bull snake looks like a red ... It is incredibly difficult to watch. Or stop watching it. And then the horse during sex grabs the mane of the mare with his teeth: a brutal spectacle. " In the book there is a picture of a horse with a huge penis hanging down and the caption reads "the similarity with unicorns is not the only reason why girls love ponies." Among other items in the book, a list of vibrators to use and not use (Dil-Do and Dil-Do's), "the best sex toys of all time" (the Pube Rubik and Hippos Both Ways) and the Illustrated Guide Spot the Fetish.
A manual is a worthy descendant of the books written in the 70s by Monty Python, relatives that you accept it as a great compliment. "It all started when me and Rich, away on business, we started to say things sexy on the phone. The book is a combination of erotic stories and more fun stuff to topic, in the form of a textbook.
Keep out of reach of little ones. " What did he do as a child? "I thought of becoming an epidemiologist or a valley of The Price is right. How to Stop AIDS epidemiologist I wanted, but you had to be good at math, so I gave up. " At Northwestern University in Chicago, Schaal attended the scene vibrant city of stand-up comedy, and then moved to New York where she had hearings and worked in bars.
"At that time all I could afford was a slice of pizza for lunch and a beer for dinner." Salvation came in 2005 when the New York Magazine has included among the "ten funniest New Yorkers you've never heard of." "It was the real turning point, from there I was hired for Flight Of The Conchords." In serial Kristen plays Mel, the Conchords fans and nightmare, which pursued sexual advances even in the presence of her boyfriend.
"I'm glad I was not the victim of Mel! - -. Says I was inspired by some true fans of Conchords, but I tried to make it even more horrible it is based on real people. " The actress sued the Daily Show in a sketch sexism against Hillary Clinton's candidacy for president, but the famous program is criticized for the lack of female presenters, "There are many women among the producers of the series, but only two of the eight authors.
I've never been in the room of the authors, but if I did the first thing would pull out of the pea at all to see how they perform. I always live in the midst of comedians and writers, and I never felt offended by male sexual language. After all, she asks Kristen to pose before the camera with the first two balloons in the shape of crab and some of his best faces, "where the humor would be no dirty jokes? © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010
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