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1977-01-31 · Eastchester, New York, USA · Male

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Robert Michael Moynihan Jr. (born January 31, 1977) is an American comedian and actor. He was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2008 to 2017.

Outside of SNL, he has also voiced Louie Duck on Disney's DuckTales from 2017 to 2021, Panda in We Bare Bears from 2015 to 2020, and Hal the Dog in the PBS Kids series Nature Cat from 2015 to 2025. He has also voiced roles in Monsters University (2013), The Secret Life of Pets (2016) and its 2019 sequel, Fixed (2025), Hoppers and Minions & Monsters (both 2026). He portrayed Jayden Kwapis on the sitcom Mr. Mayor and the manatee Loafy in the 2020 show of the same name of which he is also the creator, executive producer, director and writer.

Early life and education

Moynihan was born and raised in Eastchester, New York. He graduated from Eastchester High School in 1995 and from the University of Connecticut's School of Fine Arts in 1999. After graduation, Moynihan toured with a Shakespeare company before discovering Upright Citizens Brigade, where Amy Poehler gave him a job as a bartender for free classes. One of his first classes was with then-15-year-old Zach Woods.

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. After SNL, he was the lead in the short-lived CBS sitcom Me, Myself & I. From 2017 to 2021, he voiced the character Louie Duck in the Disney Channel/Disney XD revival of DuckTales. In June 2023, he started voicing the character Bobby Boots in the Disney Junior TV series Pupstruction.

From 2021 to 2022, Moynihan played interim Director of Communications Jayden Kwapis in the NBC sitcom Mr. Mayor, and stars as the titular manatee in his series Loafy. In December 2021, Moynihan wrote the segment "The Holiday Pact" in DC Comics' anthology special Tis the Season to Be Freezin', starring the Flash and Captain Cold. Moynihan released a children's book titled Not All Sheep Are Boring, with illustrations by Julie Rowan-Zoch and published by Penguin Random House, in 2022.

In March 2025, Moynihan appeared on Season 2 of Dropout’s interview-parody show Very Important People in the episode "Dan Wesley Sharron", playing a frozen man with the same name.

In 2025, he was nominated for a Children's & Family Emmy for Outstanding Voice Performer in a Preschool Program.

Saturday Night Live

Moynihan joined the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live during season 34 on September 13, 2008, and remained through the end of season 42 on May 20, 2017. He has made subsequent cameo appearances during Jack Harlow's hosting debut in 2022 and the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special.

Recurring characters on SNL

Mark Payne is a waiter at Pizzeria Uno. He wears a T-shirt featuring Sagara Sanosuke from Rurouni Kenshin and always complains about inconsequential things around the pizzeria.

Dancing skeleton in the Haunted Elevator sketch featuring Tom Hanks as David S. Pumpkins. Moynihan co-wrote the sketch and an animated special that aired on NBC the following year.

Anthony Crispino is an incompetent reporter at Weekend Update.

Vinny Vedecci Jr. is the son of Italian talk show host Vinny Vedecci. He wants to ask celebrities ridiculous questions, but they cannot understand his broken English, which makes him cry. Vinny Jr. is based on Johnny Caspar Jr., a character in Miller's Crossing.

Liam is one of the kids in Gilly's elementary school class. It is often implied that he hates his stepfather.

Obnoxious Microphone Guy is an annoying man who attends parties and other events and steals the microphone from the emcee.

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 later 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 had 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…