Actor and Comedian Bobby Moynihan | The Latest With Maya

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SPEAKER_03 0:13

Hi Bobby. Welcome to The Latest with Maya. I first spoke with Bobby Moynihan about five years ago. Currently, Bobby is the voice of King George in the movie Hoppers and plays Rusty in the NBC show The Fallen Rise of Reggie Dinkins. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm so excited to be talking with you again.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

Thank you for having me. I can't believe it's been five years. That's insane.

SPEAKER_03 0:45

Yeah, I know. I can't. I was like, is that right? I didn't think that was right. But um I I love your shirt, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Thank you so much. My little guy. I love him.

SPEAKER_03 0:59

Yeah. Um, so who do you most admire and how has that affected the way you live your life?

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Wow. I mean I think just having people you admire, I guess. Just uh I've admired a lot of people in my life. I I think that I think just having something that you love is important. Something that something to have gosh, that that's a crazy one. Uh for some reason Tina Faye came to mind. There are certain people in my life, like obviously Lorne, like you know, like uh Daniel Chong as of recently, the guy who created We Bear Bears and Hoppers, like they're just there are some people that you they they just they're really good at uh creating beautiful things, and I I love that. I love those kind of people.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um, so what small things bring you joy on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_00 2:07

Oh, I mean everything. Uh I just saw that's what he said. That made me think of I just saw Daniel Radcliffe's Broadway show uh like a month ago, and I've thought about it like every day since. Just the idea of have are you familiar with it at all? Do you know about it?

SPEAKER_03 2:25

A little bit. I yeah, I don't know a ton about it.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

But just just the concept of having a mil writing down a million brilliant things that you like every day, like instead of like triggers, things that make you upset, like just like writing down and noticing all the little tiny things in your life that make you happy, or just like even just like the color red, or just like just anything, just like that that is is a brilliant, beautiful thing. And like I ever since I've seen that show, I've been just thinking about that concept a lot differently of just like, yeah, no, instead of being upset all the time, what if I was just happy? I looked at everything and went, Oh, that's amazing, instead of going like, Ugh, I'm tired. What if I went like I'm really happy, I'm busy, and trying to do the opposite of of that.

SPEAKER_03 3:15

I love that. I think that's a great way to look at life.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

Trying. You gotta be positive.

SPEAKER_03 3:24

Yeah, definitely. Um, so uh, what's the greatest lesson you've learned from a character you've played?

SPEAKER_00 3:37

Wow. What's the greatest lesson? Okay, I'll pick Rusty just because that's the one I'm playing right now. What's the greatest lesson I've learned from Rusty on um Reggie Dinkins? Um all you need is love. That's Rusty. All you need is love and somebody that you can live in their basement. That's all you really need.

SPEAKER_02 3:57

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

Um you I guess like you learn from you learn from every character you do, but like you, you know, you it's all it's all you playing around, so you learn from it, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

Yeah, I love that. I actually I just started re-watching um Me, Myself, and I.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Amazing. Ow.

SPEAKER_03 4:22

I found it on on Tubi.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

Oh, amazing. Congrats.

SPEAKER_03 4:26

Yeah, I just I love that show. That will always be another one.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Well, I haven't seen I I don't think I've ever seen it. I I wanna, I wanna, I was like, that's so I want to go check out. I just think it's funny to like that I was on a sitcom about playing a dad before I was a dad. Like now, now that I am a dad with two kids, I would love to see what I thought was like tending to be a dad. I bet I bet I wasn't good at it now now that I know the truth.

SPEAKER_03 5:05

Um so is there a song that you are currently obsessed with?

SPEAKER_00 5:15

Um, yeah. Have you ever heard of uh there's a rapper named Prof. P-R-O-F.

SPEAKER_03 5:24

Oh, I haven't.

SPEAKER_00 5:25

Uh I like him a lot and I like his stuff a lot.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

Okay, I'm gonna go listen to him.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

He has a song called Dynamite that I think is fantastic.

SPEAKER_03 5:35

Oh, okay. I'm excited to listen to this. Thank you for the recommendation.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Welcome.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

Yeah, I um I was actually right before this interview, I was listening to um there's an artist named uh Xander Hawley, who I love his music, so I've been listening to that.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

That's the best. Don't you love when you find someone you or someone new that you love and that's all you've listened to for a while? I love that feeling.

SPEAKER_03 6:05

Definitely, yeah, or like I or like kind of rediscovering old favorites too. Um, yeah, I love that too. It was um a few months ago uh or earlier this year that it was like for several months all I had on uh repeat was MGK. Um I'm just I'm obsessed with his music. So that's all I had on uh on a loop for several months.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

As you should. Go for him.

SPEAKER_03 6:47

Um, so if you had a warning label, what would yours say?

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Um wow, that's a fantastic question, Maya.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

Um thank you.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

I just did I just did three weeks of press. I got asked a hundred thousand questions, and that is like what a fascinating, wonderful question that is. Um God, what would mine say? Mine would probably say um warning um may break down at any time, but we'll be okay in like five minutes.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

I like that. I like that. That's a good one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:44

Um, so what uh has been the biggest obstacle either personally or professionally that you've overcome?

SPEAKER_00 7:58

Wow. Um, you are killing me today. You're doing fantastic. Um, what is what is that? Um maybe just getting out of my own way or just like in like enjoying something more instead of worrying about it so much. Like I guess that maybe being more present in the moment and not worrying so much about something and just kind of enjoying it while it's happening.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

Yeah. Oh yeah. Um, so I am uh pop culture obsessed, as you already know.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Um, and I go I see Marilyn Monroe behind you. Did you know that I just found this out the other day, and now for some reason I just think it's fascinating. So now I feel like I have to tell everybody whenever I see Marilyn Monroe. Did you know that uh Marilyn Monroe and Britney Spears were cousins?

SPEAKER_03 8:51

Oh, I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

I didn't know that either. Isn't that nuts?

SPEAKER_03 8:55

That is, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

That was crazy. I heard that on the internet. I don't even know if it's true. It might not be true, but I heard it and I went, that's crazy. I hope it's true because that that would be nuts. Yeah. You were talking about pop culture.

SPEAKER_03 9:12

Well, thank you for that interesting fact.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

You're welcome.

unknown 9:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:17

Um so I go uh in stages of shows that I cannot stop watching. Um, is there a show that you are currently obsessed with?

SPEAKER_00 9:29

Uh The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins on NBC Peacock Mondays at 8:30. No, I'm just kidding. Actually, yeah, that I uh that I'm not kidding. I I would be watching it if I wasn't on it, just because I'm a fan of Robert and Sam and Tina. I would be watching it anyway. That's the truth. But uh gosh, what am I watching right now? I have two kids, so like I haven't really like TV is very uh their time, not my time right now. Um, you know what else? You know what else? I the show Stumble with Taryn Killum. I like that show a lot.

SPEAKER_03 10:05

Yeah. Oh, I love that show.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

It's pretty great.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

Yeah, it is. I actually I just recently interviewed Jeff and Liz. I don't know what and yeah, I've um interviewed a bunch of the cast. I actually got to go visit the set in December. Um, which no way, yeah, it was it was so cool.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

If we get picked up for season two of Reggie, you gotta come visit that set. That would be a blast.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

I would love that. I am also very obsessed with that show. So yeah, I would love that. I yeah, I look forward to watching it every week.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

So that's the best, me too.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

Yeah, yeah. I love having those shows that you can just like binge watch all at once, but then also the ones that come out weekly because then I get very excited and look forward to it.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

So I'm the same one, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:13

Um, yeah, so what genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_00 11:22

Um either comedy or animation, I feel like.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

Well, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Maybe maybe animated just for fun.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

Yeah. Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

Yeah, I um I've always wanted my life story to be a musical and a rom-com.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Smart, smart.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

Thank you. So that that's my dream.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

I like it. I think you're I think you'll get it. We'll speak it into existence.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

Oh, thank you. Yeah, yeah. My mom once uh we were uh having uh dinner with someone once, and we were talking about I don't remember how that came up. We were talking about that, and I was saying I wanted it to be a my life to be a musical rom-com. My mom was like, you live in a rom-com. I was like, I'm just constantly thinking this would be a good rom-com moment.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

It's a good way to live.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

So thank you. Um, so if you could give someone in your life a star on the walk of fame, who would it be?

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Wow. I mean, my wife deserves one. She's a fantastic performer, and she's a wonderful wife and mother, so she deserves one. I would give them to my kids just because I feel like they would like to go look at them and have that why not? But like, who's somebody in my life that I could give? You know what? I want to give one to Jay Farrow just because like I feel like he would love it. And and also he deserves it because he's he is a big bright shining star. I'm gonna say Jay Farrow, he's the greatest.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

I also would just love to see his speech. Uh, because like they give speeches when they get those stars, and I feel like we would hear many different voices over so I would I would give it to Jay.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

Oh, yeah, I love that. I actually I interviewed um Jay a few years ago.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Oh, that's the best.

SPEAKER_03 13:47

Yeah, it would it was so cool to talk with him.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Yeah, so talented.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Um, so do you have a go-to um comfort show or movie that you turn on when you just need to like tune out the world and escape?

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Um, if I'm just tooling around like I got nothing to do, I'm looking on YouTube for something to make me laugh. Usually it's like old Jiminy Glick interviews or like uh Zach Galafanagus live at the Purple Onion. Um what else like makes me laugh? Like what else like when I'm just stuff that like I right now it's like I I'm at a point in my life where it's been like 20 years since since I've seen something. So like I'm going back and watching movies that I haven't seen in like 20, 30 years, and it's pretty nuts like that I've been around that long. That like it's like it's been 30 years since I've seen that movie. Like it's it's that's crazy to me. So I've been watching like old like the original Ninja Turtles movie I hadn't seen in a while, and like the garbage pail kids movie, and like like crazy movies from when I was a kid that I haven't seen in forever.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Oh wow, I love that.

SPEAKER_03 15:10

Yeah, I have a long list that I just rotate between.

SPEAKER_00 15:15

Smart. I gotta do that. I gotta start writing a list on my phone. I gotta start like keeping a list of of things that I need to watch because I always forget.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

Yeah, yeah. My mom does that. She has a list of things that we both say we wanna watch so we can uh remember. Yeah, yeah. Um so uh is there um uh or what uh show or movie do you find yourself quoting all the time?

SPEAKER_00 15:55

I mean when I was a kid, it was like we grew up on like naked gun and all those movies. There was no internet, so that's all we did was like just repeat movie lines over and over and over again. Um now gosh, what what do I repeat now? Right now it's mostly like Pixar movies because that's all I watch with my kids, so it's like a lot of frozen and frozen too, even though it's it's like I'm on my my I have a as you can hear probably hear her screaming in the background. I have a I have a three-year-old and she just found Frozen and like Frozen 2. Like she just hit the world of frozen, she just it has just entered her world, so we are deep in the frozen universe right now. So I would say anything that happens in frozen right now, anything that Jonathan Groff does, because I think he's amazing.

SPEAKER_03 16:48

Oh yeah, I love that. I love Jonathan Groff, yeah. Yeah, I um it was during uh lockdown in 2020 that I found the original um Broadway cast album of Spring Awakening, and I just had that on repeat for like for the whole time we were in lockdown. So um, yeah, it was like six months that also that was all I had on, and so I'm constantly going back and re-listening to it, and I just yeah, I love him.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

That's so funny because our pandemic or our lockdown was all frozen too because our first daughter was watching it.

SPEAKER_03 17:41

Yeah, well, uh I mean those are such great movies. I love them. Yeah, I um yeah, my brain is constantly is uh just show and movie quotes, just that reference in any conversation. Yeah, even if it doesn't fit into the conversation, I find a way to make it fit. Um, so if you had to choose someone to narrate your life, who would you choose and why?

SPEAKER_00 18:20

Wow. Uh I my first my immediate thought was Gilbert Godfrey just because I thought that would be funny, but then I thought about it for a second, so I'm and then I went, no, never. Uh who would be a good narrator for my life in particular? Um I mean, do I say Jay Farrell again just because he could do all the voices? No, I was I will say I would like Christian Bale to do it as Batman. Also, I just like I like the idea of forcing Christian Bale to narrate my life just because I think he wouldn't it wouldn't make him too happy, and I feel like it would just make me giggle a little bit to force Christian Bale to do anything. I see Christian Bale as Bat, but he has to do it like in his Batman voice.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

Oh yeah, I like that. That's a good that's a good one. Yeah, I think there's so many people that I just I love that I think since we were just talking about Jonathan Graf, I'd want Jonathan Graff.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

Oh yeah, if we could get them, yeah, definitely. I'll take it.

unknown 19:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Have them sing it, that would be fantastic.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

Yes. Uh yeah, it would fit right in with the musical.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Musical rom com, there you go.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

Yeah. Well, if I yeah, I feel like if I wanted to be a musical rom com, it would be Jonathan Groff and Reese Witherspoon.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Very nice. Two geniuses, two little, two little sweethearts.

SPEAKER_03 19:57

Yeah. Yeah. Um, so when you have a day off, what would your perfect day look like?

SPEAKER_00 20:07

Uh uh sitting, sitting and doing nothing. Uh oh either that or playing with my kids. But like, yeah, either that uh doing nothing and enjoying my time or playing with my kids. That's what I do now. So I'm I'm living the life. I'm very happy right now.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

I love that.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

Yeah. Um so do you have any irrational fears?

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Uh no, I'm perfect. Uh, of course, I have many irrational fears. Uh, right now, all of my fears have to do with making sure that my daughters are okay. Um uh, but like for for myself, irrational fears. Um, I don't like I don't love the ocean. I don't like being on boats. I just feel like it's rude of us to be in the ocean or on boats. Like that's not our territory, we shouldn't be there. Um what other irrational fears do I have? Um gosh, none of the like all of my fears like seem pretty rational right now. I'm not gonna lie. Um, but uh that's the I boats, I don't like boat fish, any kind of like anything in the ocean really freaks me out for some reason. I don't I don't like the idea that we don't know what's down there. Oh yeah, I'm okay with it. I think we stay out of their way.

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:43

Octopus I think octopus are aliens.

SPEAKER_03 21:46

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Do you do you do you agree?

SPEAKER_03 21:49

I mean, now that you say that, I think probably I never thought of it, but probably I think there's a good chance they might be aliens.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Who knows? I'm just me.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

Well, I mean, I feel like the way they look, it's probably more likely.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

Right? Actually, I mean, I probably look pretty insane to an octopus. I don't know. Who knows? But they can change color. I can't just change color and pretend to be coral out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

I wish I yeah. Yeah. I always joke my brain's just one big irrational fear. So I'm always like, this might not be a good question, because then I feel like I get those irrational fears too.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

I don't I don't like thinking about anything too much. Then I just that's it. Just in your hands.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

Yeah. I um yeah, I always there's been several times I've been kind of spiraling about something, and then I say it out loud. And my mom and my sister, if they're like there with me, they'll look at me and they'll be like, You get that's irrational, right? I'm like, when I say it out loud, I hear it.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

I had someone say to me recently, if you just say out loud to yourself, but but if when in those moments of worry, if you just say out loud, but what if everything turns out to be okay? And it's it's it's shocking how much that helps.

SPEAKER_03 23:21

Yeah, I love yeah, I really like that. That's uh I think that's a good idea. I'm gonna remember that. So thank you.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

Um, so if you had the opportunity to put a message on a billboard for everyone to see, what would that message be?

SPEAKER_00 23:49

Wow. Um, I mean I feel like I'm stealing this from Hoppers just because I've just been talking about it so much, but like because I've just been doing press about Hoppers lately. But like I do feel like the message of Hoppers is we're all in this together, and I think that that's something we all need to hear a lot right now. So maybe that, or just I love you, or you're doing great, or just like a picture of something insane just to make someone laugh. I don't know. I would I would probably do something silly with it.

unknown 24:28

I would love that.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

I would love to see all of those billboards.

SPEAKER_03 24:36

Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I just have um one final question for you. Um so today, what are you most grateful for?

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Um, my family, my health, my happiness. Uh I'm pretty happy. I'm pretty happy right now. I'm thankful for you. I can't believe it's been five years since we talked. Um, I'm just thankful. Um it's I think that. I think it's that. It's it's nice to be in a thankful phase. I'm very thankful right now. And it's nice, it's nice to be thankful than just scared all the time. So yeah, I'm I'm I'm pretty happy and pretty thankful right now. And I think that's because of my family and all the people I love around me.

SPEAKER_03 25:34

Yeah, I love that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm I'm so thankful for um my family, and my sister just uh came home yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

So amazing, congrats.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

Yeah, thank you. So I'm so excited about that, and she came home really late, so it's basically I said hi to her and then went to bed because I'm like, I'm tired. So I'm excited to spend more time with her today. And I'm I'm just I'm also so thankful for you and to be able to and everything, um, like all your projects just bring me so much joy.

SPEAKER_00 26:21

So thank you. Me too. Well, I'm just happy my kids are gonna go to college. Yeah, uh, thank you, Maya. It's so good to talk to you again.

SPEAKER_03 26:35

Thank you. You too. Yeah, I just I always have the best time talking with you. So thank you so much for joining me.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

I can't wait to do it again. Let's not make it five years, but yeah, definitely, but we should definitely do it again every five years.

SPEAKER_03 26:52

Yes, definitely. Yeah, thank you. And um, yeah, I can't wait to keep watching The Fall and Rise of Reggie Denkins and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for season three.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

Me too.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

Yeah, and um, I hope you have a great day. Thank you too. Thank you. Um, and that's a wrap on today's edition of the latest with Maya.