Dana Carvey

ACTOR, SOUNDTRACK, WRITER

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

One of SNL's most talented alumni, comedian Dana Carvey reigned supreme during his six-season run creating some of the show's most memorable characters, including "Church Lady", "Garth" of Wayne & Garth fame, Grumpy Old Man and bodybuilding "Hans" of Hans & Franz notoriety. This sharp and witty writer, actor and impressionist went on to hatch a modestly successful comedy career in films along with some of his SNL cohorts -- Mike Myers, Adam Sandler and Chris Farley did.The slightly-built, slightly dorky-looking funny guy was born on June 2, 1955 in Missoula, Montana, to Billie Dahl (McDonald) and Bud Carvey. He is of Norwegian, and smaller amounts of English, German, Swedish, and Irish, ancestry. Carvey was raised in San Carlos, California in typical middle class surroundings. His father taught high school business law and his mother, who was also a schoolteacher, had creative outlets as a painter and musician that inspired the young Dana. His gift for inducing laughter arrived at any early age. As young as 9 or 10, Dana was already mimicking characters he saw on TV, with one of his early icons being Jonathan Winters. His musical gifts came in the form of drums and guitar.While majoring in Communication Arts at San Francisco State, Dana sought out the comedy stage doing standard impressions of well-known personalities such as John Wayne, Howard Cosell and James Stewart. Within a few months he was beginning to win stand-up comedy awards. In time, however, he replaced his impersonations with self-created characterizations and such ripe forms as the Church ("Isn't that special!") Lady were the result.After playing various Bay Area comedy venues, Dana decided to relocate to Los Angeles in 1981 and give Hollywood a try. He quickly landed a development deal with NBC. While playing a straight foil to Mickey Rooney wasn't exactly his cup of tea, it did break him into series work as Rooney's grandson in the short-lived sitcom One of the Boys (1982). Mickey played a hip, energetic grandpa who is invited to move out of his retirement home and into the cool pad of his college-student grandson and his roommate (played by another up-and-comer, Nathan Lane).Dana joined the repertory company of Saturday Night Live (1975) in 1986, and the result was spectacular, helping to reverse the show's disastrous decline in popularity at the time. With his sharp, quicksilver characters and uncanny ability to exaggerate dead-on impersonations of the rich and famous -- from politicos George Bush and Ross Perot to entertainment's Johnny Carson, Woody Allen and Regis Philbin, Dana became the darling of the SNL set for six solid seasons. He was nominated six times for an Emmy Award, finally winning in 1993 for "Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program", and also won multiple American Comedy Awards.As expected, Dana began seeking comedy film vehicles to extend his stardom, following the pathway of many other successful post-SNL comics. In his first comedy vehicle Die Unglücksritter (1990), he unleashed his typical bag of tricks (dialects, impressions, etc.) in a tale about a con artist who falls for the daughter of one of his wealthy dupes. It was moderately received. His second, Blackout - Ein Detektiv sucht sich selbst (1994), was merely a retread of Bill Murray's earlier ... und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier (1993) about a detective who awakens every morning without any recall. Given a thankless role in Willkommen in Wellville (1994), his third starring film comedy Schneesturm im Paradies (1994) this time had him joining former SNL link=nm0001484]. None kickstarted movie stardom.Dana's best results on film came in tandem with Mike Myers in which the duo recreated their memorable "party-on" dudes Wayne and Garth from the famous SNL sketches. Wayne's World (1992) and its sequel Wayne's World 2 (1993) were box-office smashes, but it strangely did not further Dana's film career. He had hopes that a self-titled TV comedy series, The Dana Carvey Show (1996) would connect with audiences but it faltered. As its host, he reprised a number of his popular characters and introduced a slew of future comedians, including Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert. The show was deemed too offensive and was canceled after only six airings.Into the millennium, Dana's starred in one last comedy vehicle to date. Meister der Verwandlung (2002), which he co-wrote and was executive-produced by Adam Sandler. Here he played a klutzy Italian waiter who inherits the familial power of disguise. As before, it was a letdown and did little to advance his movie career. Since then he has been seen as a featured player and has appeared in three of Adam Sandler's comedy vehicles (Little Nicky - Satan Junior (2000), Jack und Jill (2011) and Sandy Wexler (2017)). He has also been utilized in animated films, voicing such projects as Hotel Transsilvanien 2 (2015), Udvikling: Ankomsten (1982) and its sequel Pets 2 (2019).Dana's true brilliance is captured best on the live comedy stage and, in particular, his numerous TV cable specials and stand-up concert appearances. To see Dana perform live is to witness an ideal blend of wit, style, personality and unrestrained, racy humor, something he has not been afforded to do on film. He lives with second wife Paula in Southern California. They have two children. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Dana Carvey’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Dana Carvey on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1978 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Dana Carvey movies released per year from 1992 till 2021.

Top Genres

Dana Carvey works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Talk-Show Genre flixes. 56% of Dana Carvey movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Dana Carvey worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Dana Carvey has worked on is 6.3.

6.3 / 10

Dana Carvey's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Creators, cast and network executives recount the strange history of the Dana Carvey Show, the irreverent prime time sketch comedy show that aired for eight episodes on ABC, following its star's meteoric run on Saturday Night Live.

7.7/1092 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Riffs on pop culture, politics and even the show's own sponsors.

7.3/1030 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Dana Carvey, Freddie Prince, Jr. and a guest comedian conduct a competition with three talented impressionists. Each week new contestants go head to head in a club setting in front of audience members who vote for a winner.

7.2/1030 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Comedy,Documentary,History
The Comedy Club (2021)

When a fire destroys Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco, defiant owner Tom Sawyer and his crew of comedians rebuild it, hoping to revive the struggling local comedy scene. As a breeding ...

7.1/1090 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.

7/1094 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

The inseparable duo try to organize a rock concert while Wayne must fend off a record producer who has an eye for his girlfriend.

6.2/1095 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Two con men hide out in a house while the owner is away; one of them assumes the identity of the absent house sitter when the owner's relatives come to visit, only for further complications to set in.

6/10103 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Adventure,Comedy,Crime
Trapped in Paradise (1994)

Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.

5.9/10111 min

Available in 10 platform(s).