Bobby Moynihan

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Bobby Moynihan first appeared on Saturday Night Live in 2008, and starred on the show for nearly a decade. He did a few impressions, but his strength was portraying offbeat characters. Drunk Uncle was always a fan favorite. When he joined us on Bullseye, he had just published his first children’s book, "Not All Sheep are Boring." He chatted with us about his kids book and life after SNL. A version of this interview originally aired in 2022.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:24.9	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:29.3	Bobby Moynihan was just a kid when he first tried out for Saturday Night Live.
0:33.8	And by that I mean, he had his mom go get the camcorder.
0:39.5	She did her best Don Pardo impression as a young Bobby opened the door for the bathroom in a fancy suit. That video, of course, did not work. They didn't even actually submit it to
0:46.0	Lorne and the team. And, you know, Saturday Night Live doesn't usually cast children. But as you
0:52.4	know, Bobby Moynihan eventually did get on Saturday Night Live. He starred on
0:57.8	the show for nearly a decade. He did a few impressions, but his strength was sort of offbeat characters.
1:04.2	One's not necessarily rooted in the headlines of the day, just, you know, lovable goofs that
1:10.3	only Moynihan could play, like maybe his most popular,
1:14.0	drunk uncle.
1:15.2	When I was a kid, $5, you could get hot dog milk bread cigarette cigarettes television.
1:24.6	Moynihan left the show in 2017.
1:30.3	He did some voice acting work. He appeared on shows like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and in movies like The Secret Life of Pets. Now he has reunited with another
1:36.2	SNL legend, Tracy Morgan. The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins is a mockumentary sitcom
1:43.1	in which Morgan plays the show's title character, Reggie Dinkins is a mockumentary sitcom in which Morgan plays the show's title character,
1:45.7	Reggie Dinkins.
1:47.3	Dinkins was once a great football star.
1:50.2	He was thrown out of the league after a betting scandal.
1:53.7	And Bobby Moynihan plays his best friend and former teammate Rusty, who lives in his house.
2:00.3	When I talked with Moynihan in 2022, he'd just done something different in terms of tone,
2:06.3	content, and medium.
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