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Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his seven seasons as a cast member on ''
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'' from 1986 to 1993, which earned him five consecutive
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nominations. Carvey is also known for his film roles in comedies such as ''
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'' (1986), '' Opportunity Knocks'' (1990), ''
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'' (1994), and ''
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'' (2002), as well as reprising his role of
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in the ''SNL'' spin-off film ''
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'' (1992) and its sequel ''
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'' (1993).


Early life

Carvey was born in
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, the fourth of five (with three older brothers and one younger sister) born to Billie Dahl, a schoolteacher, and William John (Bud) Carvey, a high school business teacher. Carvey is the brother of
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, the engineer/designer of the Video Toaster. The character Garth Algar is loosely based on Brad. Carvey has English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Swedish ancestry, and was raised
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. In 1957, his family moved to
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, when Bud got a teaching job. When he was three years old, his family moved to
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, in the
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. He attended Tierra Linda Junior High in San Carlos,
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in
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(where he was a member of the
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champion cross country team),
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in
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, and received his
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in broadcast communications from
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. In 1977, he won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition.


Career


Early career

Carvey had a minor role in '' Halloween II'' in 1981, and co-starred in ''
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'' in 1982, a short-lived television sitcom that also starred
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, and
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. In 1984, Carvey had a small role in
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's film ''
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'', in which he played a
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, with fellow comedian
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(who tells him " Mime is money!"). He appeared in the music video for the
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song "Lucky" in 1985. He also appeared in the short-lived film-based action television series ''
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''. His big break came in 1986, when he co-starred opposite
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and
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in ''
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''. As a lifelong Douglas fan, Carvey threw in an affectionate impression of his mentor, while describing a hairy scene they did together on a moving train. Carvey was a finalist for the hosting role on the
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TV game show '' Double Dare''. He ultimately withdrew his name from consideration after he was cast on ''
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''. The job would go to
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.


''Saturday Night Live''

In 1986, Carvey became a household name when he joined the cast of
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's ''Saturday Night Live''. He, along with newcomers
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,
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, helped to reverse the show's declining popularity and made ''SNL'' "must-see" TV once again. An important part of the show's revival was Carvey's breakout character,
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, the uptight, smug, and pious host of ''Church Chat''. Carvey said he based the character on women he knew from church while growing up, who would keep track of other churchgoers' attendance. He became so associated with the character that later cast members such as
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referred to Carvey simply as "The Lady". Carvey's other original characters included Garth Algar (from ''
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''), who was based on his brother; Hans (from " Hans and Franz"); the Grumpy Old Man (from ''
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'' appearances); and Ching Chang, a Chinese poultry store owner. Throughout the election and presidency of
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, he was the designated impersonator of the president, making him the lead actor of the regular political sketches on ''SNL''. During the 1992 US presidential election campaign, Carvey also did an impression of independent candidate
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; in a prime-time special before the election, Carvey played both George H. W. Bush and Perot in a three-way debate with
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, played by
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. As Perot—recorded and timed to give the appearance of interacting with the live Bush and Clinton—Carvey eschewed the show's signature "Live from New York" opening line, telling Bush "Why don't you do it, live-boy?" Carvey left ''SNL'' in 1993. In 1992, Carvey joined
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in ''Wayne's World'', the film. A sequel, ''
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'', was filmed and released in 1993. Carvey's ''SNL'' work won him an
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in 1993 for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. He has a total of six Emmy nominations. Carvey has returned to host ''SNL'' four times, in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2011 in addition to numerous cameo appearances.


After ''SNL''

In 1994, Carvey starred in the film '' Clean Slate''. The following year, Carvey filmed his first
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stand-up special ''Critic's Choice''. The show featured Carvey doing many of his ''SNL'' impersonations, as well as making fun of the premium channel's name, pronouncing it "hobo". He had to turn down a role in '' Bad Boys'' because he felt overwhelmed as a new father. He reprised many of his ''SNL'' characters in 1996 for ''
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'', a short-lived prime-time variety show on
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. The show was most notable for launching
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's cartoon "
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", as well as the careers of
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and
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. In 2002, he returned to films in the spy comedy ''
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''. Released a week after former colleague Mike Myers' successful film ''
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'', most critics compared the movies and panned Carvey's effort. However, the movie did manage about $40 million at the North American box office. In March 2007, review aggregation website
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ranked the film as the 18th worst-reviewed movie of the 2000s decade, with an approval rating of 1% based on 103 reviews. Comedian and former ''
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'' host
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named the film the third-worst comedy ever made. Carvey did not appear in a film again until 2011's ''
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''. It, too, has been called one of the worst comedies of all time. He had previously appeared in another
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film, ''
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''. In 2004, he ranked number 90 on
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's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.


After ''The Master of Disguise''

Carvey eventually withdrew from the limelight to focus on his family. He later said in an interview that he did not want to be in a career in which his kids would already be grown with him having neglected spending time with them, a major reason for his declining the hosting spot for ''Late Night'' that ultimately went to Conan O'Brien. Carvey has said that he generally prefers stand-up comedy to acting in movies and regularly performs lucrative corporate dates, boasting of "a few million-dollar months" during a 2016 Howard Stern interview. Carvey made an appearance at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, reprising his ''SNL'' character Garth Algar with host Mike Myers for a "Wayne's World" sketch. On June 14, 2008, Carvey filmed a second HBO stand-up special, the first in 13 years, entitled ''Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies''. In 2010, Carvey appeared in the ''
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'' original comedy sketch '' Presidential Reunion''. He played the role of President George H. W. Bush alongside other current and former ''SNL'' president impersonators. In early 2010, Carvey and comedian/writer
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created and starred together in ''Spoof'', a sketch comedy pilot for
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. This included a sketch of a trailer for "Darwin", a mock film in which he played the evolutionary biologist, as well as a spoof of the hit TV series ''
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''. Both of these sketches can be seen on
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. On the animated TV series ''
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'', Carvey voiced Cosmo Cosma's con artist brother Schnozmo. On April 29 and 30, 2016, Carvey recorded two live performances at the
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in Boston, Massachusetts for a Netflix special released later in the year. His two sons, Tom and Dex, opened the show for him. Carvey was a guest on Conan O'Brien's podcast, ''
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'', on January 27, 2019. Carvey was subsequently featured in a six episode mini-series of the podcast titled " Deep Dive with Dana Carvey", released in August 2019. Carvey has regularly done sketch impressions on ''
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'' playing, among others, President Joe Biden and former national security advisor
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. On August 1, 2019, Carvey appeared on the guest panel of the fourth episode of ''
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'' and also in costume as
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in a number of later episodes. In 2021, Carvey began hosting the comedy podcast "Fantastic! with Dana Carvey". The podcast features mini sketches involving Carvey's many celebrity impressions, as well as interview segments with Carvey's family members and other friends from the stand-up comedy world. That same year, Carvey reprised his role of Garth Algar alongside Myers' Wayne Campbell in a series of commercials for
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. The original spot first ran during
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. In 2022, Carvey began co-hosting the Fly on the Wall podcast with fellow Saturday Night Live alum David Spade. Guests include former cast members and hosts of SNL.


Personal life

In 1979, childhood sweethearts Leah and Dana Carvey were married. During his marriage, while performing at The Other Cafe in
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, Carvey met and became romantically involved with Paula Zwagerman. Subsequently, Leah and Dana divorced in 1980. Dana and Paula became engaged in 1981 and married in 1983. The couple have two children, Dex, born 1991, and Thomas, born 1993. In 1995, Carvey had a home in the
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, and his parents relocated to Murrieta, California to be near Billie's sister, Shirley Miller. In 1997, Carvey underwent heart bypass surgery for a blocked coronary artery. The artery was buried deep in
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and difficult to find; the surgeon mistakenly performed the bypass on another accessible artery that was unblocked. As a result, Carvey continued to suffer from
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and successfully sued for $7.5 million in damages, which he donated to charity; he later underwent additional corrective surgery. He told ''
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'' that, while he was in the hospital for his final angioplasty,
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died in the room adjacent to his. In the late 1990s, Carvey took a break to raise his two sons. Carvey and his family live in
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in
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,
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.


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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carvey, Dana 1955 births 20th-century American comedians 21st-century American comedians 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American impressionists (entertainers) American Lutherans American male film actors American male television actors American people of English descent American people of German descent American people of Irish descent American people of Norwegian descent American people of Swedish descent American sketch comedians American stand-up comedians American television writers College of San Mateo alumni Living people Male actors from California Male actors from Montana American male television writers People from Belmont, California People from Mill Valley, California People from San Carlos, California People from Missoula, Montana Primetime Emmy Award winners San Francisco State University alumni Screenwriters from California Screenwriters from Montana Comedians from Montana Comedians from California Comedians from New York (state)