Dana Carvey | Club Random with Bill Maher
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Why do comedians need therapy and what do they talk about in it?
I'm in heaven already. One of my idols is coming toward me and I have an ice cold beverage. Jeez, look at that walk. You walk like you're forty-two. What do you you don't have any tight hip flexory? You walk like a 42-year-old. I've never seen a scratch like that. You
know what I thought walking over here? Yes. I thought, I'm gonna need the crying box tonight. Because I know you're one of those few people.
Well, don't give too much pressure.
Oh no. But you cannot help it. Oh you're so sweet. No it Really, you speak in material it just oozes out of you. We're gonna do it again whenever I believe you and I never did this. We have the same manager. Right. You're
constantly
referred to. Dated the same women. I have a I have a Dana Carby tattoo on my neck.
I know. And yet we never really sat down. Well, I look at us is like when I think of the eighties and the improv. In this long journey. And then now here we are.
But we weren't together in the impro, were we?
Not really, but you were around. But you were in uh I thought you were in San Francisco. Yeah, but I came down and bombed a lot.
You're Bob Odin
Kirk, right? It's fantastic. Did you have Bob on this show? No. Uh Bob, no. I had him on real time. I would love to have him on this show. I uh give him a
call. No, I would go on at eight oh five on a Wednesday at the improv and just epic bombs. Just horrible bombs.
You know, Bob almost killed me. I told him this when he was on
Bob Odekar?
Yes. He literally. I was at the Aspen Comedy Festival. Did you ever do the Aspen Comedy Festival? Yes. It was like every year Oddly enough, an aspen.
Yeah, that was the strange one. We did it as an S and L thing there. We had the whole Farley was sitting next to me that night and that's where I did Oh Bert and Kirk. Uh Bert Lancaster and Kirk Douglas having sex. And then twenty years later I'm doing a photo shoot with photo shoot with Bill Hader. And he goes, you know, Lauren told me I the funniest thing he ever saw. And I go, What did Lauren say? He goes, was was Bert Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as lovers. Right. And to me, I don't work blue. It was all the vernacular, it was all the rhythm of it. Well, and this is I did a movie with them. Oh you did? Yeah, tough guys. Right before SNL. And that's where I
learned that. Not from Lich. I loved them as a kid and in his old age, uh Kirk Douglas used to send me lots of notes. We had lunch a couple of times. He was a real fan. Yeah. There were notes and it would be in his writing and then they would send a printed copy because his writing was not good.
Well he was Bert was a little Bert was seventy three and he was like had trouble with the lines. We'd say, do I really have to say this line? You know, and Kirk would always say I'll say it line. I like to say lines. You go ahead.
So they were, you know But y some com some impressionists when I was a kid used to do them together because
Frank Orshwin was famous.
Right. Because they there was something about them that they were parallels, right? Yes.
Parallel rhythms, one very smooth. I can't believe you're s this is your first motion picture. I've done seventy-one. So he's got this kind of thing. And then you've got a guy who's so tight like this. I don't know what to do. So what later I did them just meeting to wrestle. I'd like to wrestle you today. I like to wrestle. You know how we am. 645 Canon Drive. There's a gate on the side. Pound. One, two, three, four, five. Pound, one, two, three, four, five. Shall I bring anything? Bring lemonade. A lot. Lemonade. We're gonna wrestle. Naked. Doesn't mean anything. Just two gentlemen, whose ever stays inside the ring is the champion. I like what you saying. I see at four fifteen. So anyway, these these are all musical rhythms in my head, Bill.
But you're already a great audience.
I need the box already.
You're already a great audience.
Yeah, for you I am. I'm I'm actually well, you know, you know me. My reputation is pretty true to me what I really am. I I'm not a guy who just fakes anything. So I don't fake
that is true. Yeah.
For better or worse. And and uh like so when you get me laughing, that's me laughing.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do comedians need therapy and what do they talk about in it?
0:01–6:12
2
How does Dana Carvey describe his famous Johnny Carson impression?
6:12–13:39
3
What’s the story behind Dana’s first time seeing Robin Williams?
13:39–21:27
4
How did Dana’s heart‑artery medical mishap happen and what was the solution?
21:27–30:48
5
What is “The Weird Place” podcast and why did they create it?
30:48–38:22
6
Why does Bill Maher channel Johnny Carson in his monologues?
38:22–46:04
7
What’s Dana’s take on Mike Myers and why does he call him a “weird duck”?
46:04–53:30
8
How do Bill and Dana compare comedy‑writing versus improvisation?
53:30–1:00:38