From Marc Maron WTF podcast with Kristen Schaal, in which she tells Marc “why she deliberately constructed the most awkward television special possible, as well as how her career changed after Flight of the Conchords, and what it means when casting directors ask for “a Kristen Schaal type.”

KS: We got married in Colorado at the Stanley Hotel… where Steven King wrote "The Shining”… Did you see that documentary, “Room 236”? …You should watch it.

MM: Why, what is it?

KS: It’s just some crazy fans who think that Stanley Kubrick — who is a very brilliant genius film maker — but they think he left all sorts of codes in “The Shining” about, like, whether or not we actually landed on the moon, and all these crazy things… And it’s fun because people think they can find little Easter eggs in things.

MM: And did you buy it? [the premise]

KS: No!

[Talking about the conclusion of her Comedy Central special]

MM: The payoff off for the “Kristen Schaal is a Horse” bit — the very last shot — did you get that from “2001”?

KS: Yeah!

MM: That whole thing is just weird.

KS: Yeah… But it’s also a callback to the first joke — did you see the horse?! I don’t think people saw the horse. There is a real horse in the opening [of the hour-long show].

MM: There is?! Where?

KS: When I walk through the doors. It’s only there for half a second.

MM: You had a horse come in and you only shot it for half a second?!

KS: Yeah. Because I just wanted to plant tiny tiny clues throughout.

MM: Oh, so you’re doing “The Shining” thing!