Matthew J. McCarthy

Matt McCarthy is an American entertainer who works as a stand-up comic, actor, improviser, and writer. Raised in Rumford, Rhode Island, he started doing stand-up after finishing college at Fordham University, where he had been the school mascot from 1999 to 2001. He later trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, located in New York. With Pete Holmes and others, he co-founded the sketch group Front Page Films, which made videos for CollegeHumor, Comedy Central, Doritos, and Crunch Fitness. He also appeared in many CollegeHumor shorts and hosted Action Pack on AMC. Between 2011 and 2012, and again from 2016 to 2018, he wrote for WWE. He started the We Watch Wrestling Podcast in 2013. He wrote for and acted regularly on The Pete Holmes Show on TBS from late 2013 to mid 2014. He plays Carl on the CBS sitcom How We Roll and appeared on Conan. LA Weekly named him a Comic to Watch in 2014.