Bobby Moynihan

Bobby Moynihan
Moynihan in 2010
Born	Robert Michael Moynihan, Jr. Eastchester, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Connecticut
Occupations	Actor comedian writer
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Brynn O'Malley ​ (m. 2016)​
Children	1

Robert Michael Moynihan Jr. is an American actor, comedian, and writer who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2008 until 2017. He is also known for voicing Louie on Disney's DuckTales from 2017 to 2021 and Panda in We Bare Bears from 2015 to 2020. He has also starred in animated films such as Monsters University (2013) and The Secret Life of Pets (2016) and its sequel (2019). He currently portrays Jayden Kwapis on the sitcom Mr. Mayor and the manatee Loafy in the show of the same name which he also is the creator, executive producer, director and writer.

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 and cast member 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, 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. In 2013, he made his voice acting film debut in Monsters University as Chet Alexander, a member of the Roar Omega Roar fraternity. 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 (original title Bad Boys, Crazy Girls). He also voiced Panda in the Cartoon Network series We Bare Bears, as well as Hal the Dog in the PBS Kids animated series 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. From 2017-2020, he voiced the character Louie in the Disney Channel/Disney XD revival of DuckTales.

Moynihan currently plays interim Director of Communications Jayden Kwapis in the NBC sitcom Mr. Mayor, and stars as the titular manatee Loafy in the Comedy Central animated series which is also created by Moynihan himself.

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 (the smell of pepper on the first sketch on the episode hosted by Michael Phelps; how sticky the bar counter is in the second sketch on the episode hosted by Tim McGraw). 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 (until Vinny gives his son a cigarette and a drink of wine). Vinny Jr. is based on Johnny Caspar, Jr. (played by Louis Charles Mounicou III) in the Coen brothers' Miller's Crossing.
• Liam, one of the kids in Gilly's (played by Kristen Wiig) 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 (usually played by Jason Sudeikis) and obnoxiously scream "WHAAAAAAAAAT!" into the microphone before dropping it on the floor.
• Scared Straight Kid, one of the three young trouble-makers (along with Bill Hader and Andy Samberg) lectured by convict Lorenzo McIntosh (played by Kenan Thompson) 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 (Ass Dan was born in 1981), 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" (in which it was stated that Ass Dan "did just die" in the 2010 sketch, making Ass Dan 29 at the time), brought back again for the 2010 Crunkmas Carnival sketch (in which Li'l Blaster established that Ass Dan was dead and finally getting the wake he deserves), and brought back again for the 2011 Easter Festival (in which D.J. Supersoak established that Ass Dan was getting a proper burial), 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 in October 2012, it's revealed that Ass Dan has an identical twin brother named Butt Dave (also played by Bobby Moynihan).
• 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 (played by host Bradley Cooper).
• 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 (played by Helen Mirren and Kenan Thompson respectively) and by Daniel Radcliffe and Clint Eastwood (also played respectively by Hugh Jackman and Bill Hader).
• 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 (she hooked up with Tom Brady (as played by Channing Tatum) and Adam Levine as himself.
• Niff, a retail worker who, along with Dana (Cecily Strong) 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 (golfer)
• Danny DeVito
• Josh Duggar
• Guy Fieri
• Jared Fogle
• Rob Ford
• Barney Frank
• James Gandolfini (as Tony Soprano)
• 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, Broadway actress Brynn O'Malley. Their daughter was born in July 2017.

Moynihan is an avid reader of comic books.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Nine the Hard Way	Stretch
2002	Economics 101	C.D.
2009	Charlie on Parole	Ex-Con	Short
	Mystery Team	Jordy
	The Invention of Lying	Assistant
2010	When in Rome	Puck
2011	Certainty	Roddy
2012	The Brass Teapot	Chuck
	Revenge for Jolly!	Bobby
2013	Monsters University	Chet Alexander (voice)
	Grown Ups 2	Male Cheerleader	Cameo
	Delivery Man	Aleksy
2014	Adult Beginners	Paul
	Bread and Butter	Daniel Lodgen
	Annie	Guy in Bar
	Party Central	Chet Alexander (voice)	Short film
2015	Inside Out	Forgetter Bobby (voice)	Cameo
	Ted 2	Himself	Cameo
	Staten Island Summer	Skootch
	Underdogs	Rip/The Moustachio Twins/Dr. Gregory Chan, D.D.S. (voices)
	Sisters	Alex
2016	The Secret Life of Pets	Mel (voice)
	Brother Nature	Todd Dotchman
2017	The Book of Henry	John
	The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature	Mayor Percival Muldoon (voice)
	Killing Gunther	Donnie
2019	The Secret Life of Pets 2	Mel (voice)
	Super Gidget		Cameo; Short
2020	We Bare Bears: The Movie	Panda (voice)
2021	Flora & Ulysses	Stanlee

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Homicide: Life on the Street	Doorman	1 episode (uncredited)
2004	Jump Cuts	The Beef	1 episode
2005	Empire Square	Rabbit (voice)	(US version)
2006–2008	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Various
2007–2008	Bronx World Travelers	Glider	3 episodes
2007–2011	UCB Comedy Originals	—	4 episodes Also director, writer and editor
2008–2017	Saturday Night Live	Various	Main cast
2008–2012	Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday	Various	4 episodes
2008	Human Giant	—	Writer 1 episode
2009	The Electric Company	Skeleckian Gravity Spray Spokesperson	Episode: "Gravity Groove"
	Chowder	Jam (voice)	Episode: "The Grape Worm"
	Mercy	Conrad Bellingham	Episode: "I Believe You Conrad"
2011	UBC Comedy Originals	—	Writer 4 episodes
2012	Happy Endings	Corey	Episode: "You Snooze, You Bruise"
	Ugly Americans	Jerry "The Fire Ant" McMillan (voice)	Episode: "Journey to the Center of Twayne"
	30 Rock	Stewart Derr	Episode: "Murphy Brown Lied to Us"
	Girls	Thadd	Episode: "She Did"
	Portlandia	Robert	Episode: "Winter in Portlandia"
2012–2013	The Side Car	Brick (voice)	7 episodes Also writer
2013	Sesame Street	Quacker Duck Man	Episode: "Porridge Art"
	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	Zarfonius (voice)	Episode: "Storage Zeebles"
2013–2015	The Awesomes	Various voices	26 episodes
2013–2016	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Fourvel	4 episodes
2014	Chozen	Chozen (voice)	10 episodes
	Playing House	Danny	Episode: "Spaghetti and Meatballs"
2014–2016	Jake and the Never Land Pirates	King Crab (voice)	4 episodes
2014–2019	Drunk History	Various	2 episodes
2015	The Jack and Triumph Show	Mr. Hardgraves	Episode: "Siri"
	The Simpsons	Tyler Boom (voice)	Episode: "Cue Detective"
2015–2019	We Bare Bears	Panda (voice)	105 episodes
2015–present	Nature Cat	Hal (voice)	21 episodes
2016	Netflix Presents: The Characters	Chuck	Episode: "Lauren Lapkus"
	Albert	Albert (voice)	TV movie
2017	Man Seeking Woman	Puffala (voice)	Episode: "Popcorn"
	Descendants 2	Dude (voice)	TV movie
	Big Brother	Himself	Episode #19.34
	The David S. Pumpkins Animated Halloween Special	Fat Skeleton (voice)	TV special Also writer and producer
	SNL Presents: Halloween	—	TV special Writer
2017–2021	DuckTales	Louie (voice)	Main cast
2017–2018	Me, Myself & I	Alex Riley	Main cast; 10 episodes
2017–2019	RuPaul's Drag Race	Himself/Guest Judge	2 episodes
2018	Bob's Burgers	Sam (voice)	Episode: "Are You There Bob? It's Me, Birthday"
	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Santa Claus	Episode: "Mexican Elections"
	Detroiters	Himself (As "Fat Bieber")	Episode: "Lois"
2018–2019	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Fran Dodd	3 episodes
2018–present	Summer Camp Island	Mortimer, Melvin, Jimjams, Toad Doctor, Additional Voices (voice)
2018–2020	Star Wars Resistance	Orka (voice)	Main cast
2019	Documentary Now!	Larry Hawburger	Episode: "Any Given Saturday Afternoon"
	Descendants 3	Dude (voice)	TV movie
	Where's Waldo?	Wizard Wavybeard (voice)	Episode: "Hang Ten in Tahiti"
	Crank Yankers	Dr. Penis (voice)	Episode #5.2
	Vampirina	Blizzy Stormfront (voice)	Episode: "Jumping Jack-o-Lanterns/Freeze Our Guest"
	The Bravest Knight	Grunt (voice)	6 episodes
2020	It's Pony	Brian (voice)	3 episodes
	Harvey Girls Forever!	Casper (voice)	Episode: "Scare Bud"
	Game On!	Himself (contestant)	Episode: "Celebrity Guests: Tony Hale and Bobby Moynihan"
	Loafy	Loafy	Main role; Creator and executive producer
2021–present	Mr. Mayor	Jayden Kwapis	Main role

External links

• Bobby Moynihan at IMDb
• Review of Moynihan's performance with trio Buffoons, from JesterJournal.com, April 13, 2007