Kyle Mooney

Early life

Mooney was born in San Diego, California, to parents Linda (Kozub) and Brian Mooney. Linda is a former The San Diego Union-Tribune reporter, and Brian is an environmental consultant and planner. Mooney has two brothers, Sean and Ryan Mooney; he is the youngest of the three. Mooney is left-handed.

Mooney's Marshall Middle School class chose him as the most likely to become a T.V. star. He graduated from Scripps Ranch High School in 2003, where he won Best Actor as Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest and was hailed as class clown. Mooney studied film at the University of Southern California. There, he performed improv and sketch comedy with collegiate group Commedus Interruptus. After a six-week audition process in 2003, the three new members added to Commedus were Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett, and Nick Rutherford.

Mooney is a self described "collector" and owns a VHS collection which he started working on as a child, although the collection started for real during his freshman year of college. He currently has a giant bookshelf as well as a two smaller bookshelves that are packed with VHS tapes. Through connections made while working on SNL, Mooney is able to get his VHS tapes autographed by the actors who have starred in them. For example, Mooney owns a Beetlejuice VHS that has been signed by both Michael Keaton and Alec Baldwin.

Good Neighbor

In 2007, Mooney, Bennett, and Rutherford came together to form the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor, along with Mooney's friend, director and editor Dave McCary. Bennett and McCary joined Mooney on SNL in 2013 (as a performer and director, respectively), and Rutherford was hired as a writer the following year. In 2014, Good Neighbor was featured on New Media Rockstars' Top 100 Channels, ranked at #98.

Saturday Night Live

On September 28, 2013, Kyle Mooney made his debut on Saturday Night Live as a featured player along with Beck Bennett, John Milhiser, Mike O'Brien, Brooks Wheelan, and Noël Wells. Out of all of the new cast members, only Mooney and Bennett returned for a second season as players (O'Brien also returned the following season, but only as a writer). At the start of the forty-first season, Mooney and Bennett were upgraded to repertory status.

Mooney has brought some of his YouTube characters to SNL, including his person-on-the-street interviews, the "420 weed smoking guy", Chris Fitzpatrick, Todd from Inside SoCal, and Bruce Chandling.

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