Matt Walsh

I've seen several funnel clouds as a kid, too. They're cool if, you know, they're, like, two towns over, but they're scary as hell if you know they're coming your way.

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

Authentic discovery, when captured on camera, I think, is tremendous acting.

Stylistically, in improv, I don't think you can have as many camera tricks; I think you're kind of shooting more like a documentary: you don't know where it's going, so you have to hang back a little more.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

I love 'A Mighty Wind.' Even though it's not a funny movie, I think that's kind of beautiful and sweet.

I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it.

I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.

I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about doing 'em.

I had a small part in a storm-chasing movie, so I did some research into storm-chaser culture.

L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

There's a moment in every romantic comedy when a person sees something in someone else that nobody else sees.