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Matt Besser

Matt Besser

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Sep 21, 2026

Josh RadnorHOST
45:19
...
Josh RadnorHOST
45:19
Matt Besser, right?
Craig ThomasHOST
45:19
Matt Besser, yeah, really funny.
Craig ThomasHOST
45:20
We, we definitely should have used him more than we did.
Craig ThomasHOST
45:23
[laughs]
Josh RadnorHOST
45:23
One of the founders with, with Amy Poehler and, you know, others of, uh, Y- Upright Citizens Brigade.
Josh RadnorHOST
45:30
I gotta say that I saw Matt Besser at UCB one night, and I think, I think Amy Poehler was there that night.
Josh RadnorHOST
45:36
It was like they'd already...
Matt BesserHOST
56:34
[upbeat music]
Brett MorrisNARRATOR
56:36
Improv for Humans is produced by Matt Besser and Brett Morris.
Brett MorrisNARRATOR
56:41
Music by Dragoon.
Brett MorrisNARRATOR
56:42
Please rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.
Mike BennerGUEST
5:55
The part that I really connect about this show is, uh, [laughs] this is also, uh, uh, used to be founder, uh-
Patrick CotnoirHOST
6:01
Matt Besser, right?
Mike BennerGUEST
6:02
...
Mike BennerGUEST
6:02
Matt Besser-
Patrick CotnoirHOST
6:03
Mm-hmm
Mike BennerGUEST
6:03
... who, um, uh, I think is just the perfect, like, annoying manager character.
Mike BennerGUEST
8:40
Mm-hmm.
Mike BennerGUEST
8:40
Like, you're quarterbacking the thing, so, like, you're kind of spearheading.
Kid CudiHOST
55:57
yeah
Tim MeadowsGUEST
55:58
nobody else would do it and we go okay well me and you will do it you know what i mean yeah um so i think like yeah it's scene partner i would say farley um and i do this improv show um i tour with these guys called it's called bluebird improv matt walsh joe canali and brad moore's we do these long form improv shows that are just killer and oh man it's so good and they're so fun to work with and but like brad and joe and i have i probably did more improv with them than i've done with anybody yeah so i would say them and also matt besser this guy from ucb one of the founders of ucb i'm just gonna say matt besser actually matt besser He has a podcast called Improv for Humans, where we do long form improv.
Tim MeadowsGUEST
56:51
And he and I can improv for hours.
Tim MeadowsGUEST
56:55
That's so dope, man.
Tim MeadowsGUEST
56:57
And I love him.
Tim MeadowsGUEST
56:58
I love improvising with him.
Tim MeadowsGUEST
57:00
So I'm going to say Matt Besser.
Tim MeadowsGUEST
57:01
Okay.
Paul GrondyGUEST
5:13
And, uh, we'd perform maybe once every two weeks, once every three weeks.
Paul GrondyGUEST
5:18
I think there were nine improv teams that were performing on the schedule, and the headliners were a team called The Family, which had some well-known names, like Adam McKay was on it and Matt Besser and Ian Roberts and Neil Flynn, Miles Stroth, Ali Farahnakian.
Paul GrondyGUEST
5:36
Uh, yeah, great.
Paul GrondyGUEST
5:37
They were a great team.
Joe Lo TruglioGUEST
30:56
Um, you know, when of course Tom and Ben and Carrie were, were great and we're like, it'd be fine.
Joe Lo TruglioGUEST
31:01
And, but then who really, uh, whose opinion really kind of helped me was Ian Roberts who, you know, founded, you know, upright citizens brigade with, with Amy and Matt Walsh and Matt Besser.
Joe Lo TruglioGUEST
31:13
And, you know, he, he was just great.
Joe Lo TruglioGUEST
31:15
I remember walking back to the car after the kind of going over all the, you know, we had a big binder of the scenarios, uh, season six.
Michael CarlsonGUEST
41:37
And
Randy RandallHOST
41:37
then at UCB, is this Matt Besser? Yeah, yeah.
Randy RandallHOST
41:41
Yeah,
Michael CarlsonGUEST
41:42
okay.
Michael CarlsonGUEST
41:42
I mean, I've only taken a one-day Matt Besser class.
Michael CarlsonGUEST
41:46
But yes, UCB is Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Amy Poehler, Matt Besser's theater.
Michael CarlsonGUEST
41:52
Sure.
Michael CarlsonGUEST
41:53
Um, so I, and I
Billy MerrittGUEST
29:34
Some people who were also non-Scientologists at a theater, Celia Bresik, I believe was a woman's name, said, hey, there's a workshop in my office building.
Billy MerrittGUEST
29:43
There's a guy named Matt Besser from Chicago.
Billy MerrittGUEST
29:45
So we all went there.
Billy MerrittGUEST
29:48
And I did a scene with a woman.
Brett MorrisNARRATOR
2:28
As usual.
Brett MorrisNARRATOR
2:29
Improv for humans with Matt Besser.
Brett MorrisNARRATOR
2:31
Based on your suggestions and other sources of inspiration, Matt and guests will perform fully improvised scenes.
Brett MorrisNARRATOR
2:39
Today's episode features human guests.
Mimi Von SchackHOST
51:18
Matt
Brittany JohnstonHOST
51:18
Besser, really? Matt Besser, yeah,
Mimi Von SchackHOST
51:20
no.
Mimi Von SchackHOST
51:20
I never studied improv at UCB.

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