Dana Carvey
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Podcast Appearances
I don't know.
I mean, he had charisma just sitting in a chair with this deep British accent.
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
Shakespearean trained actor with no material is pushed out on a comedy stage.
So it's an artifice, it's a thing, but oh, what's going on?
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?
But the whole thing was really hard for a normal monologist to follow because Robin didn't know where he was going.
He'd go in the audience.
Oh, shine somebody bald guy's head, you know?
Here's my theory.
This is for comedy nerds.
I believe the stuff that I saw in 75, 76 was his first special.
And it's so...
So rudimentary and so abstract.
It's like the stand-up you do before you learn how to do stand-up.
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.
But that first special, something about him just out there.
The chaos.
Yeah, Asian man masturbating in front of a dinosaur, you know.
It was just so loose and so powerful.