Bobby Moynihan
Robert Michael Moynihan Jr. is an American actor, comedian, and writer, who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2008 until 2017.
Career
Moynihan frequently performed with the Derrick Comedy sketch group and appeared in many of their popular internet videos and various projects. He also filmed a supporting role in the group's feature film Mystery Team, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 before a limited theatrical release.In mid-2008, Moynihan had a supporting role in the popular web-series The Line, an online video project funded by Lorne Michaels' production company, directed by SNL head writer Seth Meyers, and starring SNL cast members Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis. He acted as a sketch regular on Late Night with Conan O'Brien for a number of years and was a contributing writer on MTV's Human Giant, and in years past, he often submitted scripts to SNL with comedy partner Charlie Sanders. Moynihan has also acted in a number of comedy shorts for the website collegehumor.com, including their webseries Every Week on Entourage where he plays "Turtle" from Entourage. During the summer of 2008, Moynihan featured in a national television ad campaign for ESPN Radio with Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay. In the summer of 2009, Moynihan starred in the music video for Colbie Caillat's single, "Fallin' for You". He also appeared in three of The Lonely Island's music videos; Boombox, Shy Ronnie 2 and Threw It On The Ground. He made a guest appearance as the drug-addicted Conrad Bellingham on Mercy. He also appeared in the films The Invention of Lying, When in Rome, and Certainty. Moynihan also voiced the titular character in the FX animated comedy Chozen, which aired for one season in 2014. In 2015, he was a featured character, Lenny, in the romantic comedy film Slow Learners. He also voices Panda in an animated Cartoon Network TV show that premiered in 2015 called We Bare Bears, as well as Hal the Dog in an animated PBS Kids TV Show that also debuted that year called Nature Cat. In 2016, Moynihan appeared in a commercial for Pizza Hut's Bacon Stuffed crust pizza, and voiced Mel from The Secret Life of Pets in the same year.
Moynihan currently voices the character Louie in the Disney Channel/Disney XD revival of DuckTales.
''Saturday Night Live''
Moynihan joined the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live during its 34th season on September 13, 2008 and stayed to the end of season 42 on May 20, 2017.Recurring characters on ''SNL''
- Mark Payne, a waiter who works at Pizzeria Uno. He wears a black do-rag and a black and blue button-down T-shirt featuring Sagara Sanosuke from the anime Rurouni Kenshin and always complains about inconsequential things around the pizzeria. In the first sketch, Mark had a child that he left on a bus and did not realize it until the end of the sketch. The child was never mentioned in the second sketch.
- Anthony Crispino, relays the second-hand news report on Weekend Update, where he always inaccurately reports on current events.
- Vinny Vedecci Jr, the son of Bill Hader's Italian talk show host, Vinny Vedecci. Wears a black and white child's sailor suit. Always wants to ask celebrities ridiculous questions, but the celebrities cannot understand his broken English, which makes him cry. Vinny Jr. is based on Johnny Caspar, Jr. in the Coen brothers' Miller's Crossing.
- Liam, one of the kids in Gilly's elementary school class. It is often implied that he hates his stepfather.
- Obnoxious Microphone Guy, a very annoying man who attends parties and other events, will at some point steal the microphone from the emcee and obnoxiously scream "WHAAAAAAAAAT!" into the microphone before dropping it on the floor.
- Scared Straight Kid, one of the three young trouble-makers lectured by convict Lorenzo McIntosh and McIntosh's fellow inmates including hosts Taylor Swift, Lindsay Lohan, and Betty White. McIntosh usually throws his shoe out of anger, and in recent sketches he gives it to him to throw.
- Ass Dan, a member of the Kick Spit Underground Rock Festival and winner of the Worst He-Man Impression Contest and the Mud-Eating Contest. Even though the Blake Lively/Rihanna episode established that he died in 2009 at the age of 28, he was brought back as one half of the Thrilla Killa Klownz on the episode hosted by Ryan Phillippe in the music video "Magical Mysteries", brought back again for the 2010 Crunkmas Carnival sketch, and brought back again for the 2011 Easter Festival, making Ass Dan 30 years old at the time of this death. The 2011 Columbus Day Assblast on the episode hosted by Ben Stiller implied that Ass Dan was still alive, though he almost suffered a heart attack and still died before he could say that he was going to live forever after the heart attack allegedly passed. On the Bruno Mars episode on October 2012, it's revealed that Ass Dan has an identical twin brother named Butt Dave.
- Keith, a young movie fan who is excited about everything except for the illustrious actor/host that week, notably snubbing Robert De Niro in favor of Ben Stiller on the set of Little Fockers. In Keith's first appearance, he snubbed a hockey player.
- Doug, the mechanic for the Merryville Brothers trolley ride. His character was not named on the first sketch with Jim Carrey as the third Merryville brother.
- Richie, the stage manager from The Best of Both Worlds who has, on two occasions, been murdered by Julie Andrews and Ice Cube and by Daniel Radcliffe and Clint Eastwood.
- Slappy Pappy, one of the regular comedians in the "Original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy" video series.
- Drunk Uncle, an extremely inebriated and bitter character who drunkenly rants and raves during Weekend Update.
- Janet Peckinpaugh, a middle-aged woman who hooks up with male celebrities and Adam Levine as himself.
- Niff, a retail worker who, along with Dana always insults retail workers whenever they fear they're going to get fired.
- Kirby, an astronaut obsessed with his "little kitty cat".
- Riblet, Michael Che's high school friend on Weekend Update.
Celebrity impressions
- Bill Belichick
- Ken Bone
- Susan Boyle
- Chris Christie
- Mindy Cohn
- David Crosby
- Ted Cruz
- John Daly
- Danny DeVito
- Josh Duggar
- Guy Fieri
- Jared Fogle
- Rob Ford
- Barney Frank
- James Gandolfini
- Newt Gingrich
- Jonah Hill
- Mike Huckabee
- Kim Jong-un
- Rob Kardashian
- Brian Kilmeade
- Nathan Lane
- George Lucas
- George R.R. Martin
- Rosie O'Donnell
- PSY
- Seth Rogen
- Kevin Smith
- Snooki
- Steven Seagal
- Donald Sterling
- Glenn Thrush
- Andrea Bocelli
Personal life
In August 2016, Moynihan married his longtime girlfriend and Broadway actress Brynn O'Malley. Their daughter was born in July 2017.