During the winter of 2010, I decided that NY would no longer have any power over me. I picked LA over NY because I had lived in NY and it continuously kept knocking me down.

Why did you pick LA over NYC or anywhere else? What was your best credit before moving here? Public radio’s This American Life

When and where did you start performing comedy? Sept. Fun fact! Let’s learn more fun facts about Sean O’Connor. Before all of that, though, as a New Yorker in 2009-2010, O’Connor created and co-starred in a webseries about a couple called “ Sean and Meghan.” Meghan was played by a relatively unknown actress named Allison Williams, who as the webseries cast bio says, also was shooting “THE UNTITLED LENA DUNHAM” pilot for HBO. As a writer, he’s also worked on MTV’s Video Music Awards, The Sports Show with Norm Macdonald, and current series Upload with Shaquille O’Neal on truTV, and The Ben Show on Comedy Central. Since then, he has appeared on Conan twice, featured as a talking head on VH1 and MTV shows, and just last weekend, taped his first half-hour for Comedy Central. Within months, he was named a “New Face” at the Montreal Just For Laughs festival. Sean O’Connorhas racked up some impressive credits since going Hollywood. This is a recurring feature, a complementary West Coast version of Meet Me In New York, The Comic’s Comic’s mini-profile of newcomers, up-and-comers and overcomers of the Southland surrounding Los Angeles. Certainly, though, countless unknowns have packed their bags and moved to Los Angeles in the years and decades since then, hoping for show business to discover them and make them a star! New York City may be the city everyone goes to make it there before making it everywhere, but Hollywood remains the place where stars are born and made. People were going Hollywood long before Bing Crosby starred in the 1933 film musical Going Hollywood.

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