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Emmy Award winning Comedian Dana Carvey is best known for his character Garth "Wayne's World," with Mike Myers. He has received widespread praise for his uncanny comedic impersonations of such political figures as Ex-President George Bush, H. Ross Perot, and Bob Dole. He ... does impersonations of George Burns, Johnny Carson, Mickey Rooney, Casey Casem and many more. Dana performed standup in his own one-hour comedy special on HBO aptly named "Critics Choice".
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Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey is one of America's most beloved entertainers. In the past few years, Carvey has starred in "Wayne's World," "Wayne's World 2," Alan Parker's "The Road to Welleville," "Clean Slate," and FOX's "Trapped in Paradise."
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Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey has maintained an illustrious career. Carvey was born June 2, 1955 in Missoula, MT. While a student at San Francisco State University, he won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition. After his graduation (with a degree in communication arts), he played at numerous clubs in the Bay Area and then moved to Los Angeles in 1981 to pursue his career. BR> A repertory member of "Saturday Night Live" sine the 1986-87 season, Carvey left in1992 after seven seasons. Carvey is best known for his characters he Church Lady; Hans, of the Hans and Franz body building duo; Garth, Wayne Campbell's (Mike Myers)"Excellent Co-Host on the immensely popular sketch" Wayne's World", and Weekend Updates Grumpy Old Man. In addition to these characters, Dana has received widespread praise for his uncanny comedic impersonations of such political figures such as Ex-President George Bush, H. Ross Perot, Jerry Brown, Jerry Duke, and Bob Dole. He ... does impersonations of George Burns, Johnny Carson, Jimmy Stewart, John McLaughlin, Mickey Rooney, Casey Casem, and Regis Philbin.
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Biography: Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey has maintained a tremendous career. Carvey was born June 2, 1955, in Missoula, Montana. Dana went on to college at the San Francisco State University where he won the San Francisco Standup Comedy Competition. After his graduation (with a degree in communication arts), he played at numerous clubs in the Bay Area and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career. A repertory member of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE since the 1986-87 season, Carvey left in 1992 after seven seasons. Carvey is best known for his characters the Church Lady; Hans, of the Hans and Franz bodybuilding duo; Garth, Wayne Campbell's (Mike Myers) "Excellent Cohost" on the immensely popular sketch "Wayne's World," and Weekend Update's Grumpy Old Man. In addition to these characters, Dana has received widespread praise for his uncanny and exaggerated comedic impersonations of such political figures as Ex-President George Bush, H. Ross Perot, Jerry Brown, David Duke and Bob Dole.
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Dana Carvey started out in standup, was a brilliant comedian musician, whose talents were snapped up by Saturday Night Live in the 1980's. In this skit, Dana does an of John McLaughlin, a noted roundtable host of a news commentary show. John had a unique style that Dana took to a whole new level!
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SANTA ROSA, Calif., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Perhaps best known as the "Church Lady" from Saturday Night Live, Emmy Award-winning comedian Dana Carvey is coming to Santa Rosa's Wells Fargo Center for the Arts to tape his much-anticipated HBO Special. The special will be taped live from the Center's 1600 seat main theater on March 28th and 29th. It will be the second national television special to be hosted at the Santa Rosa arts center in less than a month. On February 30th and March 1st, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts will ... host the taping and live broadcast of legendary comedian George Carlin's 14th HBO Special, entitled "It's Bad For Ya."
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