Dana Carvey
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So then it became that where we just did the overly set up Johnny Carson thing.
And then it was so dry.
It was maybe the driest thing you ever did on the show, Dana.
And then, but it always, Ed McMahon's,
Ed McMahon's rhythmically kind of acknowledging it and, you know, giving it like just like, yes, you are correct, sir, would always make it work.
It was like the fact that you would say these strange things and then Ed would kind of affirm them.
I'd love to talk about Carcinio anyway.
we did one before that that actually did piss Johnny off.
And then they, I don't know.
I don't know if they asked you to do that late night history show, but they asked me, so I did it and I talked about it and then they edited it to make it look like we didn't really give a shit how Johnny felt, responded to it.
And we did, we were really upset about it.
Like we did this sketch where Arsenio, so Chris Rock gets hired in like 1990 and,
and um plays our senior hall yeah which he didn't do like i remember i that's another guy i got to see audition and he was hysterical and like obviously you know an incredible obvious hire but i remember asking lauren does it matter he doesn't seem to be an impressionist here to do our shit don't worry about uh chris he's got the hair and he can do arsenio just remember it's like
Black guys on the show always have the burden of having to do like every black person.
Yes, we talked about that with Chris, yeah.
Oh, you did?
A little bit.
Oh, at SNL.
Well, they definitely let women play men.
They still let that happen.