Matt Walsh is a comedy icon, having founded the Upright Citizens Brigade alongside Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, and Ian Robert. He's been nominated for Emmy Awards thanks to his hilarious work as Mike on Veep, but is probably best known for popping up on just about every great comedy series of the past 25 years.
Seriously, his television appearances track the evolution of the 21st century comedy show (SNL, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, The Sarah Silverman Program, Strangers with Candy, The League, Community, Outsourced, Children's Hospital, Hung, Party Down, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Black-ish, Ricky and Morty, How I Met Yout Mother, Bob's Burgers, etc.). And that's just TV.
Then there's Matt Walsh, who is "a soulless piece of sh*t," to quote Tony Goldmark. Alex Brior asks on Reddit, "Can we all agree that Matt Walsh is human garbage?" The general response he gets from Redditors is that this is an insult to both garbage and the human condition.
To prevent spreading any confusion, it should be noted that there are many people named Matt Walsh. One happens to be a delightful, perpetually mustached comedy icon, and the other has been called an extremist ideological fanatic who is generously labeled a "commentator" but essentially spends each day engendering hatred and violence toward anyone who disagrees with him.
Who Is Matt Walsh? Ugh.
For clarity's sake, let's call that other guy Matty Walsh. He's the man behind the transphobic and narcissistic hit, What Is a Woman?, a "movie" appreciated by either bigots or very unintelligent people. Here's a sparse sampling of Matty's many quotes, which are frequently labeled as violently hateful by watchdog groups; surely Rush Limbaugh is salivating in hell.
- “Our Founding Fathers had very specific goals in mind … they were willing to back [them] up with guns and violent force,” he said.
- "If you want extreme change, you must take extreme action.… You have to make people hurt," he said.
- “The word consent increasingly means nothing because we’ve expanded it so much, and we’ve turned it into this complicated equation where nobody really knows when consent is happening," he said.
- “Evil — we’re talking about Nazi scientist-evil. We're talking about abortionist evil," he said (somewhat ironically referencing Nazis), referring to a doctor that performed gender-affirming surgery.
Matty Walsh thinks 16-year-old-girls should be impregnated and create families before leaving high school. Matty Walsh wants to execute homeless people, it's been said. Maybe that's why the other, actually decent Matt Walsh gets hate mail.
Matt Walsh #1 Is Flamin' Hot
"It is not great," Matt Walsh told MovieWeb, not his demonstrably disturbed doppelganger. "Not great." It has unfortunately come up sometimes for the comic actor, who co-wrote the film Unplugging, where he starred alongside Eva Longoria. Walsh is now starring in Longoria's directorial feature debut, Flamin' Hot, which celebrates Mexican culture and chronicles the rise of Richard Montañez.
There are occasional conversations, or occasionally I get a social media plug, like, "Hey, why don't you just shut your mouth," and I'm like, "I don't have a blog..."
That's a shame, because like the film he's now starring in, Walsh is a charming, low-key guy. When he spoke with MovieWeb, two dogs slept peacefully behind him, and for some reason, a banner hung up in the background read, "I LOVE YOU." We love you too, Matt Walsh #1. Just you, though. Flamin' Hot will be released on June 9, 2023, by Hulu and Disney+. You can check out a trailer below.