Kristen Schaal scours apocalyptic wastelands one week, flips cartoon burgers the next

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Bob’s Burgers (2011-present)—“Louise Belcher”

AVC: You’re so prevalent now in animation. My kids recently popped in a Shrek cartoon, and there you are again, as the gingerman’s girlfriend. Are you getting offers for that type of work all the time?

KS: Yeah, I’ve been pretty busy with voice-over. I try not to do too many things just because, I don’t know. I’m busy. [Laughs.] But I have had a really nice run of doing it. And I’m having a lot of fun doing it. That Shrek Halloween short was one of my first voice-overs. It might have even been before Bob’s Burgers. So cartoons just don’t go away. But even if they do, a day on a cartoon like eight or so years ago, you know, you’ll still be popping in that DVD. Because a lot of animation is evergreen. Which is great.

AVC: On Bob’s Burgers, you’re the only female voice of the five regulars. Do you ever do voice-over where you guys see each other and play off each other?

KS: Oh yeah. That is the only animated project that I’ve done where we record together as a group. That’s what I was doing today. It does just take more time, because we’re all improvising. But Wednesdays is when Bob’s records and it’s really fun. And I got to work with Gary Cole—who came in today to play Sergeant Bosco—which was cool. And it’s just so fun to riff on each other. Or even just hear the lines and react in real time is fun.

AVC: That must be so different compared to all the other stuff that you do. And it probably explains so much why you guys seem like such a family on the show.

KS: Well, we also knew each other for years and years and years before Bob’s got put together. Because all of us did stand-up, pretty much. And the New York comedy scene. Except for Dan Mintz [who voices Tina], who started in L.A., I think. He was the only one. But he also does stand-up. I knew Eugene [Mirman, who voices Gene] and Jon Benjamin [who voices Bob] and John Roberts [who voices Linda]. And Larry Murphy [who voices Teddy], way back.