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Kyle Mooney was doing a silly bit with his two-year-old daughter recently, a natural thing for him both as a professional sketch comedian and as a dad — when she suddenly stopped him.

“I think I was being a lion,” he says, “and she was like, ‘No, don’t be Funny Daddy. Be Real Daddy.’ Which hurt,” he deadpans. “It’s like: I’m being a clown again. And she could see right through it.”

The “real” Kyle Mooney, the recording artist known as “Kyle M” on a new album he wrote and performed, is also a bit — a Kaufman-esque character purporting to be the authentic Kyle, the sincere songster bearing his heart on songs about his blue car, being bullied in middle school and the ills of our “

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