Conner O'Malley

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Conner O'Malley
Born (1986-12-20) December 20, 1986 (age 35)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
  • Comedian
  • screenwriter
  • actor
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksTV series Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014–2017)
TV series Joe Pera Talks with You (2018)
Years active2013–present
Spouse
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(m. 2018)​
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2006–present
Subscribers151,000 [1][2]
Total views9,348,612[2]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg 100,000 subscribers unknown
Updated: August 19, 2021[3]

Conner O'Malley (born December 20, 1986) is an American comedian, writer, actor and YouTube personality. He is known for his work on Late Night with Seth Meyers, for which he received three Writers Guild of America Awards nominations, and his viral videos on YouTube and the now defunct social media platform Vine.[4] O'Malley has also appeared on Broad City and Joe Pera Talks with You. He is married to actress and fellow comedian Aidy Bryant.[5]

Career[]

O'Malley began his comedy career at the Annoyance Theatre, where he met his future wife, Aidy Bryant.[6] When Aidy was cast on SNL, the couple moved to New York, and O'Malley began uploading short comedy videos to the social media platform Vine, while working a day job as a dog walker.[7] O'Malley's videos quickly began to gain attention and acclaim, and in 2014, he was hired as a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers.[8][9] While writing for Late Night, O'Malley also occasionally performed on the show, creating several re-occurring characters, such as "Anniversary Guy", "Stink Mouth PigMan", and "Gørbøn Hausinfrud".[10][11]

In addition to writing for Late Night, O'Malley has also written for Joe Pera Talks with You, which he also co-starred in as Joe's neighbor Mike Melsky, and the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. As an actor, O'Malley has been featured in several television shows, most notably Detroiters, where he played Trevor, Tim's free-wheeling brother, and Horace and Pete, where he played Eric, the boyfriend of Horace's daughter, played by Bryant. O'Malley has also appeared on Broad City, and Netflix's The Characters, and has been a recurring guest on The Chris Gethard Show since 2013.[12] In 2019, he appeared on I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson and he appeared in 2021 on HBO's That Damn Michael Che.

Since 2016, O'Malley has also frequently posted videos on his YouTube channel, which have since gained media attention similar to his Vine work.[13][14][15]

Style of comedy[]

O'Malley's style of comedy in the 2010s, especially on his main social media outlets, Vine, YouTube, and Twitter, has led to his videos becoming viral. O'Malley's videos have shown him playing a manic and aggressive persona with loose thoughts. His Vines, uploaded until the site was defunct, showed him confronting drivers on the street and talking to them in non-sequiturs,[16] and his Twitter videos have included a series of increasingly chaotic and demanding vlogs directed toward presidential candidates Howard Schultz and Beto O'Rourke that have been compared to performance art.[17]

Shane Ryan, writing for Paste, said O'Malley's comedy expresses "anger and envy and a sort of perverted worship of wealth and the American dream".[18] O'Malley has also published comedy videos on YouTube that have satirized InfoWars,[19] South by Southwest[20] and the AVN Awards.[21] Chloe Lizotte, writing for Reverse Shot, compared O'Malley's work to Adam Curtis and said that his videos "mock the idea that commercial entertainment could stand in for political action or fill a spiritual void."[22]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Title Role Notes
2020 Palm Springs Randy
TBA Bodies, Bodies, Bodies Post-production

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes
2013–2017 The Chris Gethard Show Various Recurring, 10 episodes
2014–2017 Late Night with Seth Meyers Various Recurring, Also writer
2014 Louie Young Louie Episode: "Elevator Part 4"
2015 The Awesomes (Voice) Recurring, 2 episodes
2015 Broad City Chris Episode: St. Mark's
2015–2016 The Special Without Brett Davis Various Recurring, 3 episodes
2016 Horace and Pete Eric Episode: "Episode #1.7"
2016 Netflix Presents: The Characters Pointer Brother Episode: "Tim Robinson"
2017 At Home with Amy Sedaris Guanog Episode: "Out of This World"
2018 Detroiters Trevor Episode: "Trevor"
2018 The Shivering Truth (Voice) Episode: "The Magmafying Past"
2018– Joe Pera Talks with You Mike Melsky Co-star, Also writer, executive producer
2019–2021 I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson Various Recurring, 3 episodes
2019–2020 Shrill Reggie Recurring, 4 episodes
2020 Search Party Chris Episode: "A National Affair"
2021 How To with John Wilson Writer for second season

Award shows[]

Year Title Role Notes
2014 66th Primetime Emmy Awards Himself Also writer

References[]

  1. ^ "Conner O'Malley - YouTube". YouTube.
  2. ^ a b "About Conner O'Malley". YouTube.
  3. ^ "Conner O'Malley - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  4. ^ Goldstein, Pablo (21 June 2018). "A Beginner's Guide to Conner O'Malley". Vulture.
  5. ^ "SNL's Aidy Bryant Marries Conner O'Malley". www.eonline.com. E! News. 30 April 2018.
  6. ^ Fallon, Kevin (24 February 2016). "Aidy Bryant, SNL's Next Big Thing". The Daily Beast.
  7. ^ "Aidy Bryant's Husband, Conner O'Malley, Went From A "Literal Garbage Man" To A Success In The Comedy World". www.bustle.com. Bustle.
  8. ^ "An Interview With Vine Legend Connor O'Malley". www.pastemagazine.com. Paste Magazine. 13 March 2016.
  9. ^ "conner o'malley 5 things to know". www.usmagazine.com. Us Magazine. 28 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Anniversary Guy". Seth Myers.
  11. ^ "Connor O'Malley's Interpretive Dance To The Charlie Rose Theme Song". Seth Meyers.
  12. ^ "Connor O'Malley Acting Credits". IMDB.
  13. ^ "Conner O'Malley tries his hand at Leno's "Jay Walking" and ends up in hell". The A.V. Club. The Onion.
  14. ^ "This Mockumentary About Young Trump Superfans Is Great (Again)". www.fastcompany.com. Fast Company. 15 June 2017.
  15. ^ "TruthHunters". YouTube.
  16. ^ "Someone On Vine Is Accosting People In Fancy Cars And It's Hilarious". Buzzfeed.
  17. ^ "Inside the deranged mind of a Howard Schultz superfan | The Outline". The Outline.
  18. ^ "An Interview with Late Night Writer and Vine Legend Conner O'Malley, On His Trump Rally Video". Paste. 13 March 2016.
  19. ^ "Stop What You're Doing and Watch Conner O'Malley and Joe Pera's 'TruthHunters.com' Pilot". Vulture.
  20. ^ "Rebranding IsIs at SXSW". YouTube.
  21. ^ "NEW JERSEYS #1 MASTURBATER AT PORN AWARDS". YouTube.
  22. ^ "Lambs to the Slaughter: The Weird and the Normal of Conner O'Malley". Reverse Shot.

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