Conner O'Malley

Conner O'Malley, born December 20, 1986, in Des Plaines, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, is an American comedian, actor, writer and filmmaker. His grandparents were Irish immigrants, and he later acquired Irish citizenship. He grew up on Chicago's North Side and has two older brothers. His father, brothers and several uncles were all elevator mechanics, a path his father wanted him to follow, but O'Malley purposely failed the test to become one at the age of 18, inspired instead to become a comedian by Conan O'Brien and Norm Macdonald.

O'Malley started performing in the stand-up and improv comedy scene at Second City theaters in Chicago, and while performing at the Annoyance Theatre he met his future wife, Aidy Bryant. When Bryant was cast on Saturday Night Live in 2012, the two moved to New York City, where O'Malley began uploading short comedy videos to Vine while working as a dog walker. In 2014 he was hired as a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers, occasionally performing on the show and creating recurring characters. He has also written for Joe Pera Talks with You, which he co-starred in as Joe's neighbor Mike Melsky, and has appeared in Broad City and I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. For his work on Late Night with Seth Meyers he received three Writers Guild of America Awards nominations.

In 2024 O'Malley released the stand-up comedy special Stand Up Solutions, which satirizes late capitalism and artificial intelligence. Filmed in Brooklyn, it received critical acclaim, with Tim Marcin of Mashable describing it as "a scathing critique of our AI reality". The same year he co-directed with Danny Scharar, wrote and starred in Rap World, a mockumentary about three men in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. In 2025 he released Pipe Rock Theory, a short film whose main character, Kevin Podcast, spouts conspiracy theories before the story takes a darker turn.