![]() ![]() ![]() “There was no way of knowing what was going to happen because I stayed,” he said. Matt high-fives this life lesson of trusting instincts. I was in the right place, but it wasn’t the right time yet.” “But if I hadn’t stayed in Provo, there wouldn’t be a Studio C. “Staying at the museum made a lot of people worry I wasn’t moving on with my life,” Matt says. Bean Life Science Museum all through college and got a staff job after he graduated. With a healing leg and newfound confidence thanks to his LDS mission in Chicago, Matt landed a spot on Divine Comedy, along with his sister, Lauren Meese.įor his day job, Matt worked at the Monte L. “I loved being in front of an audience back then, but life gets in the way and makes you think your dreams are stupid - until you break your leg and come back around and realize what’s important to you,” he says. Matt’s penchant for costumes and voice inflections started in elementary school, where he remembers being overwhelmed by having to memorize four minutes of material and being burdened with a perennial second-place ribbon. ![]() The second climb back up was exhausting,” he says. “I climbed up him, and then I went halfway down. Matt’s most difficult winged-climb to date was Shawn Bradley. Let’s see if we can make it work on stage,’” he says. “The first time I presented the Shoulder Angel sketch in Divine Comedy, I said, ‘This works in my mind. Matt has taught himself to balance on the shoulder in such a way that his weight is distributed properly without requiring back surgery for his castmate. Known best as the Shoulder Angel, this 130-pound comedic heavyweight has always been strong at pull-ups, and now he also throws in a little P90X and yoga to stay fit for his white-spandex role. “My own name is alliterate, which I like, so I decided to do the same for Scott and add a second ‘S’ with ‘Sterling.’” “I named this character Scott after a good friend I’ve done comedy with,” Matt says. His latest claim to fame is as script writer and bloody star of the Scott Sterling sketch, and of course starting JK! Studios! Matt was known as the lead actor, head writer and resident “grandpa” (he's the oldest at 36) of Studio C, which he created along with producer Jared Shores. “It lifted my spirits, and I decided to change course and start acting again.” “I was sitting there thinking about acting I had done in the past,” Matt says. ![]() He broke his leg playing mid-fielder in a 2006 intramural soccer game at BYU and elected not to take classes that summer while he was on the mend. Ironically**, Matt got serious about comedy because of soccer. So what do you think? Is Matt Meese colorblind? Or was it just for a sketch?(yes he is) This may be true, but can be false because it has been used in a few Studio C sketches. Least Favorite School Subject: "All of them"įavorite Sketch: Dana's Dead Tongue Twisterįact or Fiction? Matt is colorblind. What He Wants To Be When He Grows Up: A human Thanks for asking" WELCOMEįavorite Food: "The free kind" or peanut butter (which he became allergic to from eating too much of) awwwwww!!!!! ![]()
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