How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Kyle Mooney

Now that helium has a baby, Kyle Mooney doesn’t permission a definite L.A. radius overmuch if helium doesn’t person to. And he’s contented with that. The “Saturday Night Live” alum spends astir of his clip successful Pasadena, Glendale, Highland Park and, astir of all, Eagle Rock, wherever helium lives with his woman and their babe daughter. “I felt similar the ‘artsiness’ of it was thing I could subordinate to,” says Mooney, explaining wherefore helium was drawn to the neighborhood. “Highland Park [now] feels a small spot similar what Silver Lake did erstwhile I was successful my 20s, but we were truly struck by the vicinity successful Eagle Rock. I deliberation it’s beauteous peculiar and quaint successful an awesome way.”

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Mooney has been revisiting the past lately, some connected and disconnected the screen. The actor-comedian made his directorial debut with “Y2K,” an early-aughts-set fearfulness movie that imagines a satellite wherever machines really bash emergence up against humanity as feared astatine the crook of the millennium. The film, successful theaters now, volition beryllium disposable to watercourse connected Dec. 24.

Outside of work, Mooney has been revisiting the past lately. He precocious reinstated a emotion for shot that was calved during his puerility days successful Little League. “It’s specified a nerdy athletics but for immoderate crushed it does thing for me, it’s thing that tickles my brain,” helium says.

Mooney’s perfect Sunday includes shot trivia, the hottest of blistery sauces and aggregate walks astir the neighborhood. “Sundays person a precise peculiar spot successful my bosom due to the fact that erstwhile I worked connected ‘SNL,’ that was my lone time off,” helium said. “So we would truly instrumentality vantage of it and effort to get arsenic overmuch amusive worldly successful arsenic possible.”

This interrogation has been lightly edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.

8:30 a.m.: ‘Late’ greeting aftermath up

Throughout my 20s, I utilized to effort to slumber successful arsenic precocious arsenic imaginable truthful that if I woke up astatine 4 p.m., I could get distant with lone having to wage for dinner. And past erstwhile I was connected “SNL,” the docket is built for precocious nighttime truthful you’re beauteous utilized to sleeping successful arsenic precocious arsenic you tin conscionable truthful you tin grip [working] into the aboriginal morning.

Our docket present is beauteous overmuch based astir the baby. My woman and I power disconnected each mates days who wakes up with her. She gets up typically astir 6-ish, sometimes arsenic aboriginal arsenic 5:30 a.m. So if I could slumber successful until 9 a.m. oregon 9:30 a.m., that would beryllium rad.

8:35 a.m.: Baseball trivia games successful bed

When I aftermath up, I ever play this [mobile] crippled called “Immaculate Grid” that’s a shot stats game. It’s conscionable recollecting stats that players person had and [recalling] the past of baseball. When shot season’s going, I person similar 3 different friends [who besides play] and we nonstop each different our scores. So I’ll play that and past I’ll bent with the baby.

I loved shot arsenic a kid. I got truly into collecting cards and the past of it. There’s a Ken Burns documentary connected baseball and they produced this large aged publication that my dada would work with maine astatine bedtime erstwhile I was successful 4th oregon 5th grade.

I truly got backmost into shot successful the past mates years — I americium from San Diego and I’m a Padres instrumentality — and it was a comic feeling arsenic the Dodgers were amid a World Series tally to beryllium wearing a San Diego shot cap. Never earlier had I felt similar a atrocious guy. This twelvemonth was the archetypal twelvemonth wherever I was similar “You know, I’m really not going to deterioration my chapeau [in public].”

10 a.m.: Me-time portion babe naps

I effort to spell to the gym erstwhile I can, but if not, I similar to jog astir the neighborhood. Being capable to accidental that I jogged a mile oregon a mile and a fractional feels similar a win.

When I’m connected my jog, I’ll ever perceive to euphony and sometimes effort to edit a playlist. That’s thing that relaxes me. I turned 40 this past twelvemonth and my woman and I had a shared day party, truthful determination was a batch of prep for gathering the playlist. Around that time, connected these jogs I was adding songs to a monolithic playlist that was similar 14 hours agelong and past making cuts, dwindling it down until it was similar six hours of euphony that we could walk disconnected to the DJ to propulsion from. The euphony I emotion the astir for a enactment situation is ’80s R&B and funk, possibly Italo disco and yacht rock.

11 a.m.: Venture outdoors for brunch and margaritas

One of the places down the thoroughfare from america is called Relentless — they’re great. They person a large margarita. And we astir each clip get the cauliflower wings. They besides occasionally person earthy wine, which is thing that some my woman and I are truly into. They’re ever bully astir making a scrambled ovum for our babe that sometimes she’ll eat, which is simply a large win.

We besides similar to spell to the Hermosillo, which is simply a barroom successful Highland Park that has large food. I emotion their cheeseburger, blistery canine and fried pickles. They person a large outdoor country wherever you tin bent with kids and there’s a batch of families truthful you don’t consciousness similar you’re spoiling anyone’s clip by having a large child. We besides sometimes spell to Mijares successful Pasadena for margaritas, chips and salsa and that classic, old-school Mexican cuisine.

11 a.m.: Alternate plan? Have a burning repast

We besides spell sometimes to the Greyhound, which is simply a barroom and edifice successful Highland Park and Glendale. [Editor’s note: The Glendale determination volition adjacent Jan. 12.] These days they person a large enactment of wings and assorted sauces. The past clip I got the hottest one. I similar trying immoderate the “fire, utmost danger, high-voltage” helping is, particularly if I’m astatine a caller place. When we bid takeout, if we’re getting Indian nutrient oregon Thai food, I’ll enactment successful a enactment like, “Please marque this arsenic spicy arsenic possible.” One of the spiciest dishes I’ve ever tasted was astatine Jitlada and they have a competition surrounding it. That was 1 that I astir apt had possibly 4 oregon 5 bites and was like, “I really can’t grip it.” I deliberation it’s lone happened possibly doubly successful my beingness wherever I’m like, “I can’t spell immoderate further.”

I did a “Hot Ones Versus” precocious with Fred Durst, who’s successful our movie. He was suffering. They assertion we had their spiciest wing. I was grabbing them erstwhile I didn’t adjacent person to, conscionable enjoying them. I’m like, “It’s not that spicy,” but I looked similar a clown with a large reddish ringing astir my lips.

3 p.m.: Second locomotion of the day

Both successful the greeting and [before dinner] successful the evening, we’ll enactment successful a locomotion with the full family. I enactment her successful the Baby Bjorn and we’ll locomotion astir the vicinity and look astatine birds and doggies and squirrels. One of the truly awesome parts astir Eagle Rock is that it’s afloat of bully people, truthful we spot a batch of acquainted faces and cognize a batch of the folks that we tally into. And my woman and I tin drawback up connected gossip if we privation to.

4:30 p.m.: Dinnertime

Going retired to devour doubly successful a day, I don’t cognize however often we bash it. A spot we emotion to spell to a batch is Colombo’s down the thoroughfare from us. It is decidedly walkable but we typically thrust conscionable due to the fact that it’s beauteous hilly. I emotion Colombo’s — we’ve conscionable figured retired our order: I similar the sausage and peppers dish, the steak, the fried mozzarella. My woman tends to bash a make-your-own pasta with angel hair, ail and butter. And past if I tin grip it, I’ll get a cocktail martini.

6 p.m.: Gradual wind-down backmost home

Hopefully baby’s had nutrient astatine dinner. If not, we’ll marque her a small something. Maybe we’ll let ourselves to ticker a small TV, each of america together. Right present she’s truly into the “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.” She volition besides ticker “Ms. Rachel.” And past we’ll get her acceptable for furniture and work immoderate stories and sing immoderate songs. And past depending connected our level of exhaustion, sometimes we’ll person friends travel implicit and play Quiplash oregon thing similar that.

Usually we volition conscionable effort to ticker a movie connected request oregon rent one. We’re precise atrocious astatine finishing them the aforesaid night. It astir ever takes 2 days, to the constituent that sometimes we’re paying doubly to ticker it.

Right present we’re successful Christmas zone, truthful we’ll astir apt commencement revisiting the Christmas classics: There’s this animated movie from the ’70s that Rankin/Bass did called “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” that’s astir a breached clock, essentially. And I emotion “A Garfield Christmas.” I’m a “Love, Actually” instrumentality arsenic well. And there’s ever a black-and-white Christmas movie that I’ve ne'er seen, truthful sometimes we’ll find thing that’s aged but caller to us.

8 p.m.: YouTube rabbit spread earlier bed

I similar to ablution [before bed] and sometimes I’ll spell connected baseballreference.com and larn astir immoderate shot players. It’s conscionable thing to perpetually beryllium studying for the contention with my friends.

I genuinely tin entertain myself connected the net for respective hours. One caller YouTube hunt was “’80s Christmas specials.” I’m truly obsessed with the thought that determination are each these specials that aired connected TV that conscionable became mislaid media, they’re not connected DVD oregon streaming oregon thing similar that. “Flash Beagle” was a Charlie Brown cartoon from the aboriginal ’80s that was a spoof of the movie “Flashdance.” Snoopy’s successful a headband dancing and for immoderate crushed I’m obsessed.