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Dana Carvey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3549 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

I don't know.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

I mean, he had charisma just sitting in a chair with this deep British accent.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

you know he's got an odd face and when you really break it down he did he looks kind of interesting and he the way he kind of moved definitely with barrel chested it's he invented this which it took me a while to figure out why he's so brilliant because sometimes comedians would go oh he's got sticky fingers his act is hacky there was some of that but i said he invented this motif

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

Shakespearean trained actor with no material is pushed out on a comedy stage.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

So it's an artifice, it's a thing, but oh, what's going on?

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

And then he always had, he had a beret that he'd throw off and he'd pick it up and go, for those of you on Essence, this is a Frisbee, you know?

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

But the whole thing was really hard for a normal monologist to follow because Robin didn't know where he was going.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

He'd go in the audience.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

Oh, shine somebody bald guy's head, you know?

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

Here's my theory.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

This is for comedy nerds.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

I believe the stuff that I saw in 75, 76 was his first special.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

And it's so...

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

So rudimentary and so abstract.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

It's like the stand-up you do before you learn how to do stand-up.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

Later on, I think his management company got him to do long bits, got him to get word for word, got him to be organized.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

But that first special, something about him just out there.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

The chaos.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

Yeah, Asian man masturbating in front of a dinosaur, you know.

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Netflix is a Joke, Oscar Nominations, + Playing the Role of Poop???

It was just so loose and so powerful.