Matthew Gunn (born April 22, 1972) is an American writer and actor from St. Louis, Missouri.

Gunn has four brothers — filmmaker James, actor Sean, screenwriter Brian, producer and former Executive Vice President of Artisan Entertainment Patrick — and a sister, Beth.

[1][2][3] [4] He and his brothers all attended the Jesuit St. Louis University High School, where he graduated in 1990.

[4] Their parents are Leota[5] and James F. Gunn, who is a retired partner and corporate attorney with the law firm Thompson Coburn in St.

[7] Gunn is a political and humor writer on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Comedy/Variety Talk Series and was nominated for an Emmy five times.