Dana Carvey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, there were no comedy clubs when I started.
Literally, I opened for bands.
That's really the key to enjoying the benefits of the program.
Yeah.
Just opening for bands and getting annihilated.
Normal stuff.
But once I got into a club, a real club, not a honky-tonk bar like the other cafe in the Haight.
I started to progress just because of the environment.
I would say that as quickly as I can that I never was able to wrap my mind around like I'm one of those guys.
Like I'm going to be on TV like Jerry Lewis or Jackie Gleason or something.
And so I did a lot of shitty television.
Yeah.
Because I had no, they offered me Blue Thunder and I was in a helicopter, James Ferentino, who was coked out and drinking straight vodka, by the way.
What else do you do in a helicopter?
So it, in retrospect, it seems like.
So he's a helicopter pilot.
I do him telling a toddler he can't have any more candy.
Please, let me hear.
I don't think you should have any more candy.
I'm just doing Melissa.