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Conner O’Malley on Going Full Dumbo for Rap World
“It felt like we were just guys dressed as idiots in a house talking, then two years later, it’s at a film festival.”
They want it to change their lives forever but also serve as a snapshot of a moment in time and an ode to their hometown, the name of which conveniently rhymes with “Benihana.” What follows is a mockumentary about their efforts to make the album and the distinctly American pastimes that sidetrack them along the way, from McDonald’s runs to hanging out in grocery-store parking lots. The years are slipping away, and it’s crunch time: Will they hit it big with their album and buy 100 Corvettes or have to go work “for the railroad,” as their leader, a movie-theater employee named Matt (Conner O’Malley), says? O’Malley wrote Rap World with co-stars and fellow comedians Eric Rahill and Jack Bensinger, and it fits in comfortably alongside his other portraits of desperate midwestern strivers, like the aspiring tech bro in the high-concept stand-up special Stand Up Solutions or the wannabe improv star in his short film The Mask.
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