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Matt Weinhold: The Ugly,
Sordid Details |
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Matt has been doing stand up comedy for over 16 years. Hey,
being funny takes time. |
| 2. |
Matt has headlined at comedy clubs, colleges, private functions,
and sci fi conventions all across America. He is available for hire but
will no longer accept being paid in cocaine. |
| 3. |
Matt was a writer and voice artist for MTV's cult classic
"The Super Adventure Team". The show (created by Simpson's alumni
Dana Gould and Rob Cohen) was a send up of the Gerry Anderson Supermarionation
shows like "The Thunderbirds" and "Captain Scarlet".
Matt played the voice of Manfred Mordant, the Super Adventure Team's financier
, who when not screaming at his house boy Kwan, was picking up girls at
bus stops. I guess life does imitate art. |
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Aside from The Super Adventure Team, Matt has lent his voice
talents to many other projects including "Squirrel Boy" for The Cartoon Network, The Game Show Network's "Throut
And Neck", Microsoft's "Defy All Challenges" website, Durex, "Prison" for the Klasky Csupo web site, "The
Journeyman Project 2: Buried In Time" and "The Journeyman Project
3: Legacy Of Time" for Presto Studios as the voice of Arthur, several
"Red Bull" cartoon spots as Adam and a genie, and the voice of
the "white corn guy" for a short lived Taco Bell campaign. Hot
damn, this is impressive! |
| 5. |
Matt is a gigantic science fiction/horror film/animation/comic
book nerd and due to his colossal ego, considers himself an expert on these
subjects. He has a massive collection of movie memorabilia, comic books,
original animation and sprawling display of over a thousand action figures.
Sorry ladies, he's taken. |
| 6. |
Matt has worked on several pop culture and sci fi genre related
pilots. He was a writer and co-creator on "The Amazing Colossal Show"
with "Who's Line Is It Anyway" star Greg Proops for BBC television,
and was the host of VH1's "Pop Rocks" in association with Jersey
Television and created by Russell Scott and Patrick Young. He's working
now on more nerd related TV, in hopes of creating a brave new nerd world. |
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Amoungst the other tools in Matt's laugh box is sketch comedy.
Matt was a writer/performer in the San Francisco sketch troupe "Comedy
Obscura" with Debi Durst, Michael Bossier, and Greg Proops. In a rave
review by Gerald Nachman of The San Francisco Chronicle, Matt was singled
out for praise: "...Weinhold is the one you remember...destined for
Saturday Night Live and beyond...Weinhold's laughs are quicker and truer...a
man imbued with inner funniness, a comic attitude, a wild streak well under
control..." For more of this review, Matt will call you at home. |
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Speaking of nerds Matt has also appeared in the hilarious
Star Trek documentary "Trekkies" directed by Roger Nygard and
hosted by Denise Crosby. Growl! Matt is the last face you see on screen.
Pleasant dreams. |
| 9. |
Willing to stand up and face the competition, Matt humbly
won the Seattle Comedy Competition in 1989 and was a 3rd place finalist
in the 1990 Johnny Walker Comedy Search (not so humble) and the 1990 San
Francisco Comedy Competition (down right pissed). In 1994, Matt appeared
at the prestigious Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival in Montreal
on the "New Faces" show. Matt remembers nothing of the festival
except taking some over the counter codeine and a series of overpriced lap
dances. Matt believes his act put the "real" in "Montreal".
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No stranger to radio Matt was a regular on the immensely popular
Alex Bennett Show on LIVE 105 in San Francisco and even occasionally was
a guest host. Matt is currently a favorite guest on the syndicated Bob And
Tom Show and is featured on many of their "Best of..." CDs (available
on their web site). They even took Matt to the Bahamas for a live remote.
Matt is still wanted there by the authorities. |
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Matt has performed stand up comedy on almost every channel
your basic cable provider can offer including MTV, VH1, Comedy Central,
Showtime, HBO, Fox, NBC, A & E, PBS, The Game Show Network and more.
By "more" I mean public access. |
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In addition to performing, Matt has written for many television
shows including Comedy Central's "Trigger Happy TV" and "Frank
Leaves For The Orient", VH1's "Random Play", and MTV's "Super
Adventure Team". He created and sold an animated pilot to Comedy Central
called "The Shrinkonauts and a dark comedy sketch show pilot to VH1
called "Look Out, The Prattles". He has since spent all the money
on eBay. |
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Matt's incredible talent in the realm of acting nabbed him
stand out roles in NBC's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip", HBO's "The Comeback", CBS's "Weird Al Show" , Nickelodeon's "Cousin
Skeeter", Fox's "The Keenan Ivory Wayne Show", and a promo
for the Nickelodeon show "All That". Matt is planning a lecture
series to discuss his acting career at the Museum of Television and Radio. |
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In addition to his guest star roles, Matt has appeared in
numerous television commercials for Comcast, Applebee's, Aflac, SBC, Dunkin' Donuts, HEB food stores,
Island Financial, and Johnsonville Brats (which are honestly f--kin' delicious!).
By far his favorite and most popular role was for a series of Round Up weed
spray spots in which he played a Clint Eastwood type weed spray slinger.
Matt is currently planning a nationwide tour of car and boat shows as "The
Weed Spray Guy". |
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For several years, Matt was a regular contributor
to "US Weekly" magazine's "Fashion Police" section.
In this section Matt made fun of celebrities wearing bad clothing. Matt
knows nothing about fashion himself but is quite good at using words to
hurt. |
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In the same vein as Fashion Police, Matt has been seen making
jabs at celebrities and pop culture on show's like VH1's "The List",
fx's "The Test", E's "Rank" and "101 Celebrity
Oops", ABC Family's "Hollywood's Hottest Hunks" and "Hollywood's
Most Romantic Couples", and The Sci Fi Channel's "Sci Fi Entertainment".
If you're on Hollywood's A list, you better not piss this man off. |
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Before getting into stand up comedy, Matt studied film production
and produced, directed and wrote many short films. His most famous film
"Flash Corrigan: Space Explorer" (available for viewing on You Tube!) was made at the age of 13 and
features a scene where Matt actually sets himself on fire. To this day,
Matt is not allowed near the matches. |
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In case you aren't sick of his bragging yet, Matt most recently
wrote on and provided voices for the X Box game "Whacked" in conjunction
with the Journeyman Project Team at Presto Studios. As you can see, Matt
is doing VERY well. |
| 19. |
Matt is currently working on a live stage show with his actor
friend Chris Bonno that should prove to be hilarious and extremely offensive.
He is also working with Bonno and documentary filmmaker Peter Byck (Garbage)
on an animated cartoon about a bumbling rock n' roll roadie, aptly titled
"Ralph The Roadie". Matt is also, also developing several TV projects
with various friends and is putting the finishing touches on a CD of his
live stand up act (soon to be available for sale on this web site. Ummm!
I can just smell the money rolling in. |
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For demo reels, photos, resumes, or inquiries on any kind,
please contact Matt's agent Bruce Smith at Omnipop (818) 980-9267 or email
him at brucesmith@omnipop.com.
Try it! It's fun! |
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If you'd like to learn more about Matt's life, philosophies,
or political opinions...give it up. He truly is this shallow. |
| 22. |
Why am I speaking in the 3rd person? |
| 23. |
sigh. |
