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Dana Thomas Carvey born June 2, 1955 is an American actor and comedian who made his acting debut in Tough Guys 1986 and is most widely known for his work as a cast member of Saturday Night Live and act as Garth Algar in Wayne's world movies.
It is well known for his impersonations of George H W Bush and Ross Perot Saturday Night Live, he is also known for playing the Church Lady and Hans of Hans and Franz on SNL; both are original characters SNL.
Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana son Billie Dahl, a schoolmaster, and Bud Carvey, business school teacher 1 Carvey is the brother of Brad Carvey engineer designer Garth Algar VideoToaster The character is loosely based on Brad Carvey has English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Swedish descent, and was raised Lutheran 2 3 4 When he was three, his family moved to San Carlos, California, in San Francisco Bay he received his first drum kit at an early age, he attended the Earth Linda School San Carlos, Carlmont High School in Belmont, California, where he was a member of the cross country champion of Central Coast team section 5 College of San Mateo in San Mateo, California, and received his bachelor's degree in broadcast communications from San Francisco State University 6.
He had a minor role in Halloween II and co-starred on one of the boys in 1982, a television series of short duration which also starred Mickey Rooney Nathan Lane and Meg Ryan In 1984, Carvey had a small role in the film Rob Reiner This is Spinal Tap, in which he played a mime with fellow comedian Billy Crystal who said Mime is money, he also appeared in the television action series in the form of short film the Blue Thunder big break came in 1986 when he co-starred opposite Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster in Tough Guys Being life Douglas fan he is, Carvey threw an affectionate impression of her mentor, describing a hairy scene that they made together on a moving train 7.
That same year, Carvey became a household name when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live There NBC, as well as newcomers Phil Hartman Kevin Nealon Jan Hooks and Victoria Jackson helped reverse the decline in popularity of the show and made SNL still must-see television once an important part of the revival of the show was the breakout character Carvey, Lady church, the host uptight, smug and pious church cat 8 Carvey said that it based the character on women he knew the church growing up, that would keep track of other faithful attendance it has become so associated with the character that cast members later, as Chris Farley referred to simply Carvey The Lady 9.
Carvey other original characters included Garth Algar from Wayne's World, which was based on his brother, 10 Hans Hans and Franz, Grumpy Old Man and appearances weekend day Throughout the election and presidency George HW Bush, he was appointed President impersonator, making him the main actor regular political sketch on SNL.
During the US presidential election campaign in 1992 Carvey also made an impression of independent candidate Ross Perot; initially special time before the election, Carvey played both George HW Bush and Perot in a debate with Bill Clinton three played by Phil Hartman as Perot recorded and timed to give the appearance of interacting with Bush live Carvey and Clinton avoided the live show the signature of the New York opening line, Bush said Why do not you do, let live-boy Carvey SNL in 1993.
In 1992, Carvey joined Mike Myers in Wayne's World movie A sequel, World 2 Wayne was filmed and released in 1993.
The working SNL Carvey won him an Emmy Award in 1993 for outstanding individual performance in a variety or music program, it has a total of six Emmy nominations 11 Carvey returned to SNL host four times in 1994 1996, 2000 and 2011.
NBC executives hoped to get Carvey to take over 12: 30 pm ET spot night of the week in the range of the network in 1993, when David Letterman left his show, Late Night with David Letterman, for 11 h 30 and broadcast on CBS 12 30 place subsequently went to Conan O Brien.
In 1994, Carvey starred in the film Clean Slate The following year, Carvey has filmed her first HBO special stand-up Critical choices The show Carvey did a lot of his personifications SNL and make fun of the name of the premium channel, pronouncing it hobo.
He had refused a role in Bad Boys because he felt overwhelmed as a new father 10.
It incorporates many of his SNL characters in 1996 for The Dana Carvey Show a short time variety show in prime time on ABC The show was most notable for the launch of Robert Smigel cartoon The ambiguous Gay Duo, and the career Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert.
In 2002, he returned to films in the spy comedy The Master of Disguise Released a week after former colleague Mike Myers blockbuster and the like Austin Powers in Goldmember most critics compared the film and savaged the effort Carvey However, the film has managed about 40 million at the north American box office in March 2007, the overall review site Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film as the 18th worst reviewed movie of the decade of the 2000s, with 1 rating 12 fresh comedian and former Mystery science Theater 3000 host Michael J Nelson named the film the third worst comedy ever made 13 Carvey does not appear in a movie again until 2011 Jack and Jill it, too, is considered one of the worst comedies of all time, he appeared in another film Adam Sandler Little Nicky 14 15.
He is number 90 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time 16.
Carvey was finally removed from the first to focus on his family, he said later in an interview that he will not be in a career where his children would have grown with him having neglected spending time with them, a major reason for its decline hosting place for Late Night, which eventually went to Conan O Brien Carvey said he generally prefers stand-up comedy act in movies and conducts regular dates lucrative businesses, boasting a few months millions of dollars at a Howard Stern interview 2016 17 18.
Carvey made an appearance at the MTV Movie Awards 2008 resumes character SNL Garth Algar with host Mike Myers for a world sketch Wayne On June 14, 2008, Carvey filmed one second HBO stand-up special, the first in 13 years entitled Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies.
In 2010, Carvey appeared in the Funny or Die skit presidential original comic Meeting He played the role of President George W. Bush H alongside other current imitators and former President of SNL.
In early 2010, Carvey comedian and writer Spike Feresten created and played together in a spoof comedy pilot for Fox skits This included a sketch of a trailer for Darwin, a fictional film in which he played the evolutionary biologist, as well as a parody of the hit TV series lost both of these sketches can be seen on YouTube 19 20 on the animated television series the Fairly OddParents Carvey expressed grifter Cosmo Cosma brother Schnozmo.
On April 29 and 30 2016 Dana Carvey recorded two shows at the Wilbur Theater in Boston, Massachusetts for a special to be released later this year Netflix Try their hand at stand-up comedy, two son opened Dana Tom and Dex the show for him.
In 1979, while running for another Cafe in San Francisco Carvey met Paula Zwagerman They became engaged in 1980 and married in 1983, have two children, Thomas and Dex Carvey 21.
In 1997, Carvey had heart bypass surgery for a blocked coronary artery, but the surgeon operated on the wrong artery's blocked artery was buried deep in the muscle and therefore difficult to find; another artery, but not locked, was clearly available, so that the surgeon walked around Carvey, suffering later angina sued for medical malpractice and received 8 million damages, he donated money to charity 22 23 he had to undergo additional surgery to correct his heart problems, he said Newsday while he was in the hospital for his final angioplasty, Frank Sinatra died in the adjacent room his 10.
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