Also in 2006, Schaal appeared on the first season of the Comedy Central show Live at Gotham. 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. 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. In 2006, Schaal performed at the 2006 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where she won the award for "Best Alternative Comedian". Schaal and comedy partner Kurt Braunohler onstage in 2010 Live comedy
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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". She then moved to New York in 2000 to pursue a comedy career. She attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year and graduated from Northwestern University. She has a brother, David, who is three years older. Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996. Her father is a construction worker and her mother is a secretary. She was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado. Schaal was born in Longmont, Colorado, to a Lutheran family of Dutch ancestry.
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