Dana Carvey
Dana Carvey
Dana Thomas Carveyis an American actor and stand-up comedian known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for playing the role of Garth Algar in the Wayne's World films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 June 1955
CityMissoula, MT
CountryUnited States of America
prayer bars lord
Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.
character matter limits
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
stars impossible sometimes
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
winter years voice
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
interesting stuff existential
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
years levels four
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
country hate thinking
I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
turtles clubs enough
Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!
dream character world
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
money hurt two
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
night years two
I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
gay laughing als
I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
secret want persona
While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
san-francisco competition lucky
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.