With his revamped show, “Bike Talk Show With Joker Guy (Marge Wig),” a massive success, Joker Guy ecstatically accepts an invitation from Robert De Niro to be on his talk show, an offer brought to life with the help of editor Danny Scharar, who green-screens O’Malley into Joker’s homicidal talk-show climax. But after he is beaten by one of Kinnear’s boys (played by Joe Pera Talks With You writer Dan Licata), O’Malley undergoes a Joker-esque transformation that, inside his damaged mind, turns him into the victor of the bloodstained late-night wars. Then it’s off to rapid monologue jokes about TSA body scanners clogged with cum, Matt Lauer starting his own private island for Me Too’d guys, and an iconic line recognizable to anyone who spent their childhood in a midwestern basement: “I’m the type of guy that I only hang out with cousins.” O’Malley released a sequel in 2019, “ Lake Talk Show With Lake Guy (Conner O’Malley) The Only Talk Show in the Lake,” in which he eats a military MRE during a cooking segment and violently threatens talk-show host turned award-winning actor Greg Kinnear, who O’Malley claims was up for the Lake Talk Show gig.Īs the country took an even darker turn in 2020, O’Malley debuted his newest talk-show satire, “Bike Talk Show (only talk show on a bike ),” in which he maniacally proclaims that talk-show hosts are “first responders” while he bikes through the barren streets of post-lockdown, pre-BLM-protests Manhattan. After leveling out his dog paddle, O’Malley brags without explanation about being the only talk-show host with his own river. September 2018’s “ Late River With River Guy (Conner O’Malley) The Only Talk Show in the River” begins with droning industrial music - a song by Trent Reznor for Ken Burns’s Vietnam War doc, a hilarious touch by the military-industrial-complex-obsessed comedian - and a drowning O’Malley screaming and taking huge gulps of Portland’s filthy Willamette River.
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Since leaving Late Night With Seth Meyers in 2016, O’Malley has released a series of nebulously connected parodies that lampoon the continued existence of late-night shows in today’s fractured entertainment landscape. Here’s a guide to the best of his recent videos. Armed with his trusty GoPro and selfie stick, O’Malley has tackled global commerce and the stock market, tin-hat conspiracies about diseases and antifa, police brutality and the historic protests against it, late-era American capitalism and empire, and even the late-night talk-show format, all in his now-signature style of wide-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth psychotic comedy. The Trump presidency may be over, but, like a rotting fish left in the walls by a disgruntled employee, it’s impossible to escape the smell of Trumpism in nearly every aspect of American life.
While O’Malley’s earlier videos emphasize how those members of the silent majority were being suckered by Trump’s braying promises, the comedian’s oeuvre since late 2018 spotlights how these spittle-spewing Patriots with a trample fetish have been gleefully crushed under the weight of failing institutions uprooted by a proudly ignorant government.
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But as the calendar turned to 2020 and the gloating waned, these Americans found themselves stuck in the same depressing stasis from which those in power in Washington and in far-right online forums have long promised to free them. airings of The Matrix Revolutions on AMC, unreturned OnlyFans DMs, and decades-old cases of Halo 3 Mountain Dew Game Fuel bought in bulk off Craigslist - were thriving in manic realities of their own creation.
We were a year and a half into Donald Trump’s presidency, and the kinds of characters O’Malley portrayed in his cult online videos - miserable American men bursting with unrestrained rage fueled in equal parts by conspiracy theories, 3 p.m. When we last checked on Conner O’Malley, it was mid-2018.
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