Early life

Walsh was born in Chicago, the fourth of seven children of Dick and Audrey Walsh. He graduated from Hinsdale South High School in 1982. While in high school he played on the football team as a backup tight end. He attended Northern Illinois University, where he graduated with a degree in Psychology, also spending a year studying abroad in Austria at Salzburg College.

Career

After college, his interest shifted to performing when he started taking improvisational comedy classes in Chicago, where he would become a regular performer at the Annoyance Theater and ImprovOlympic, where he studied under legendary improv teacher Del Close. In 1991, he met comedian Matt Besser, with whom he began performing stand-up comedy. Along with Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, and Ian Roberts, he is a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy troupe and played "Trotter" in the troupe's sketch comedy series, which ran for three seasons on Comedy Central. Before the show, the UCB comedy foursome had already been doing improv shows at their theatre in New York, which used to be a burlesque house before they remodeled it to become a theatre. To date, they have founded four successful Upright Citizens Brigade comedy theaters located in New York at UCB Chelsea and The East Village UCB, and Los Angeles with UCB Franklin and UCB Sunset.

Besides his sketch work with the Upright Citizens Brigade, Walsh is also known for his memorable supporting roles in popular comedy films in recent years including Cyrus, Old School, The Hangover, Role Models, and Semi-Pro. Walsh also wrote and starred in the cult indie-comedy Martin & Orloff, which had a limited theatrical run in 2002 and 2003. In addition, he was also a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2001 to 2002, made regular appearances in comedy sketches on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and MTV's Human Giant as well as starring in the Comedy Central mockumentry series Dog Bites Man in the summer of 2006. Except for The Hangover: Part II, Walsh has the distinction of appearing in every other Todd Phillips comedy film to date, most often playing characters aptly named "Walsh".

In 2010, Walsh created the improvised comedy series Players for Spike TV. Walsh (creator, writer, director and executive producer of the show) stars in the series alongside his Upright Citizens Brigade partner Ian Roberts, as two brothers who run a sports bar together. The show aired for one season, concluding on August 14, 2010.

Walsh currently hosts the podcast "Bear Down" (http://beardown.libsyn.com) with comedian Scot Armstrong (screenwriter of Old School) where they discuss their favorite football team The Chicago Bears and do sports-themed comedy bits such as fake call-ins and in-character interviews. The podcast has also featured appearances by comedians such as Horatio Sanz, Ian Roberts, Joseph Nunez, and Matt Price.

In 2010, Walsh had recurring roles on the NBC comedy series Outsourced and on the HBO comedy series Hung. In 2012, he began co-starring as Mike McLintock in the HBO series Veep. During that year, Walsh portrayed J. R. R. Tolkien in The Dead Authors Podcast.

Walsh's directed his first feature film High Road, an indie-comedy he co-wrote with Josh Weiner. The film was released on March 6, 2012. He is currently in post-production for his second directed film, A Better You, which he co-wrote with Brian Huskey, who stars in the film.

In the movie Into the Storm, Walsh stars as Pete Moore, who is the driver of the Tornado Intercept Vehicle nicknamed "Titus."

Personal life

Walsh lives in Valley Village, California, with his wife Morgan. They have three children, Jude, Emmet, and Celia, and a dog named Roger.

Walsh confirmed on the May 20th, 2016 episode of the Dan Patrick Show that along with the Bears he is also a fan of the Chicago White Sox.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1998	Talent	Ted
1999	Fatty Drives the Bus	Man in Baseball Uniform
2000	Road Trip	Crime Scene Photographer
2002	Martin & Orloff	Dr. Eric Orloff
2003	Pushing Tom	Co-Worker
	Old School	Walsh
	The Test	Joe	Short film
	Death of a Dynasty	Frat Boy No. 1
	Elf	Eye Witness
	Brainwarp	Captain Maniac	Video
	Bad Santa	Herb
2004	The Sensual Lover of Bindalele	Budo	Short film
	Starsky & Hutch	Eddie
	Christmas with the Kranks	Neighbor #2
2006	School for Scoundrels	Walsh
2007	Wild Girls Gone	Sheriff Terry Moran
	Dante's Inferno	Fox Reporter	Voice only
2008	Lower Learning	Mr. Conroy
	Be Kind Rewind	Officer Julian
	Drillbit Taylor	Not for Pot Driver
	Semi-Pro	Father Pat
	Step Brothers	Drunk Corporate Guy
	Role Models	Davith of Glencracken
2009	Mystery Team	Jim
	I Love You, Man	Impatient Golfer
	The Hangover	Dr. Valsh
2010	Cyrus	Tim
	Due Date	TSA Agent
	Queens of Country	Cleveland Norvis
	Cherry	Prof. Van Auken
2011	Freak Dance	Adolph Hitler, Jr.
2012	High Road	Man	Director, co-writer
	Ted	Thomas
2013	Movie 43	Amanda's Dad	Segment "Middleschool Date"
	Coffee Town	Police officer
2014	Hits	Dave
	Into the Storm	Pete
	Sex Ed	Washout
2015	Get Hard	Bathroom Stall Man
2016	Wild Oats
	The Do-Over	Shecky
	The Darkness	Gary Carter	Post-production
	Ghostbusters	Rourke	Post-production
	Office Christmas Party	Ezra	Filming
2017	A Futile and Stupid Gesture	Matty Simmons	Filming

Television

Year	TV Series	Role
1996-2004	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Various Comedy Sketches
1998-2000	Upright Citizens Brigade	Trotter/Various Characters
2001-2002	The Daily Show	Correspondent
2003-2009	Reno 911!	Ranger Glen/Various Characters
2006	Dog Bites Man	Kevin Beeken
2007-2008	Human Giant	Various Characters
2009	The League	Mr. Freidman
2010	Players	Bruce Fitzgerald
	Party Down	Larry Duckett
	Nick Swardson's Pretend Time	Various Characters
	Community	Joshua the Groundskeeper
	Hung	Matt Saline
2010-2011	Outsourced	Jerry Stern
	Childrens Hospital	Various Characters
2011	Jon Benjamin Has a Van	Various Characters
2012	Animal Practice	Alan Waxman
	MyMusic	Mr. Indie
2012-present	Veep	Mike McLintock
2013	Happy Endings	Duckie Blenkinship
	Parks and Recreation	Leonard Tchulm
	Drunk History	Various
	The Aquabats! Super Show!	Santa Claus
2013-2015	Comedy Bang! Bang!	L. Jefe Maninchargo
2014-2015	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Detective Lohank
2015	Rick and Morty	Sleepy Gary (voice)
	Playing House	Phil
2016	Animals.	Grey Horse (voice)

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