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Dana Carvey is among the elite comedic talents of his generation. From 1986 to 1992, he was a repertory member of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," where he created such enduring characters as Church Lady, Hans of the "Hans and Franz" body-building duo and Garth Algar of the iconic "Wayne's World" franchise. Mr. Carvey won an Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program and has received six Emmy nominations in all.
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Dana Carvey is the funniest guy around. Known for his flawless impersonations(ex-president George Bush, John Travolta, the babbling Paul McCartney) and original characters(The Church Lady, Hans from Pumping Up With Hans and Franz, Garth Algar from Wayne's World), Dana has added greatness to society by bringing laughter to the world.
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Synopsis: Saturday Night Live star Dana Carvey had his first leading role on the big screen in this comedy. Eddie (Carvey) and Lou (Todd Graff) are a pair of small-time con artists deep in debt to Pinkie (Mike Bacarella), a loan shark. During a lean period, Eddie and Lou resort to breaking and entering toRead More
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Dana Carvey, known best for his blasphemous ‘Church Lady’ character, has a rather interesting sibling. His engineer brother Brad is a citizen of New Mexico, home of many places such as Dulce, long believed to be a hive of alien/reptilian activity.
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Comic actor Dana Carvey led a near-monastic existence while growing up in Montana, not out of choice but because the truly popular kids were bigger and better-looking. "I was a fetus in shoes" commented Carvey on his high-school years. While attending San Francisco State University, Carvey launched his career as a stand-up comic. The going was rugged for a while, but by 1981 Carvey had built up enough of a reputation to earn second billing on the Mickey Rooney TV sitcom One of the Boys. Though the show was cancelled by mid-1982, Carvey was now on a roll. In 1984, he showed up as a regular on the TV police adventure series Blue Thunder, and was spotlighted in the parody rockumentary film This is Spinal Tap; two years later he was signed as a regular on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
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Having developed a remarkable range of comedic creations from years of playing to a handful of people in comedy clubs, Dana Carvey brought his one man cast of characters home to a huge audience on NBC’s "Saturday Night Live". In less that two years, such Carvey creations as the "Church Lady", "Ching Change" and "Hans", of "Hans & Franz" fame, have taken their rightful place alongside "Saturday Night Live’s" most memorable characters. An accomplished comedy writer and actor, Carvey has starred in OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS, WAYNE’S WORLD and appeared in such films as SPINAL TAP, RACING WITH THE MOON and TOUGH GUYS.
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