Dana Carvey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I know.
And what about the branding of the name Evil Knievel?
That was his ninth choice in some of the back circus things.
He was known as Cruel Ken, and it never took off.
Cruel Ken is now going to climb over a Volkswagen Bug, and eventually it was Evil Knievel versus the Grand Canyon.
Ornery Orny.
Sort of.
The colonels sued him.
Yeah, but it was that white jumpsuit.
He's going to jump 20 school buses.
And a lot of times he'd fall and break like nine bones.
That's what everyone wanted.
I know.
He's okay.
He'd wave, you know, on his porch.
Yeah, they had Jimmy Kaye or Howard Cosell commentating it.
Here he comes, Evel Knievel going to Trump 49.
And Howard Cosell, he was an emergency room doctor before he was an announcer.
So when he went down in slow motion, and there goes the clavicle.
There goes the right elbow.