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One of SNL’s most talented alumni, comedian Dana Carvey reigned supreme during his six-season run creating some of the show’s most memorable characters, including “Church Lady”, “Garth” of Wayne & Garth fame, Grumpy Old Man and bodybuilding “Hans” of Hans & Franz notoriety. So it is quite bewildering that this sharp and witty writer, actor and impressionist failed to hatch a successful career in films as some of his SNL cohorts — Mike Myers, Adam Sandler and Chris Farley — left to do.The slightly-built, slightly dorky-looking funny guy was born in 1955 in Missoula, Montana but raised in San Carlos, California in typical middle class surroundings. His father taught high school business law and his mother, who was also a schoolteacher, had creative outlets as a painter and musician that inspired the young Dana. His gift for inducing laughter arrived at any early age. As young as 9 or 10, Dana was already mimicking characters he saw on TV, with one of his early icons being Jonathan Winters. His musical gifts came in the form of drums and guitar.While majoring in Communication Arts at San Francisco State, Dana sought out the comedy stage doing standard impressions of well-known personalities such as John Wayne, Howard Cosell and James Stewart. Within a few months he was beginning to win stand-up comedy awards. In time, however, he replaced his impersonations with self-created characterizations and such ripe forms as the Church “Isn’t that special” Lady were the result.After playing various Bay Area comedy venues, Dana decided to relocate to Los Angeles in 1981 and give Hollywood a try. He quickly landed a development deal with NBC. While playing a straight foil to Mickey Rooney wasn’t exactly his cup of tea, it did break him into series work as Rooney’s grandson in the short-lived sitcom "One of the Boys" 1982. Mickey played a hip, energetic grandpa who is invited to move out of his retirement home and into the cool pad of his college-student grandson and his roommate played by another up-and-comer, Nathan Lane.Dana joined the repertory company of "Saturday Night Live" 1975 in 1986, and the result was spectacular, helping to reverse the show’s decline in popularity at the time. With his sharp, quicksilver characters and uncanny ability to exaggerate dead-on impersonations of the rich and famous — from politicos George Bush and Ross Perot to entertainment’s Johnny Carson, Woody Allen and Regis Philbin, Dana became the darling of the SNL set for six solid seasons. He was nominated six times for an Emmy Award, finally winning in 1993 for “Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program”, and also won multiple American Comedy Awards.In the meantime he also sought out comedy film vehicles to extend his stardom, following the pathway of other successful post-SNL comics, but came up surprisingly short. In his first comedy vehicle Opportunity Knocks 1990, he unleashed his typical bag of tricks dialects, impressions, etc. in a tale about a con artist who falls for the daughter of one of his wealthy dupes. Audience reception was mild. Clean Slate 1994 was a retread of Bill Murray’s earlier Groundhog Day 1993 about a detective who awakens every morning without any recall. Again, mild. Given a thankless role in The Road to Wellville 1994, which was not even his vehicle, the film Trapped in Paradise 1994 had him joining former SNL Jon Lovitz in another dispiriting comedy.Dana’s best results on film came in tandem with Mike Myers in which the duo recreated their memorable “party-on” dudes Wayne and Garth from the famous SNL sketches. Wayne's World 1992 and its sequel Wayne's World 2 1993 were box-office smashes, but it did not further Dana’s film career. Other than guest cameos, his screen promise dematerialized, while his own self-titled TV comedy series, "The Dana Carvey Show" 1996, faltered as well. As its host, he reprised a number of his popular characters and introduced a slew of future comedians, including Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert, but the show was deemed too offensive and was canceled after only six airings. Dana’s last film to date was the comedy vehicle The Master of Disguise 2002, which was executive-produced by Adam Sandler. Like most of his others, it fell flat and exited early from the theaters.Where Dana’s brilliance IS captured is on the live comedy stage and in his numerous TV cable specials and standup concert appearances. To see Dana perform live is to witness an ideal blend of wit, style, personality and unrestrained, racy humor, something he was not afforded to do on film. He lives with wife Paula in Southern California.

Celebrity impersonations include John McLaughlin, Charles Grodin, Woody Allen, and Johnny Carson.Brother of Brad Carvey.Has two sons, Dex born 1991 and Thomas born 1993.Impersonations include George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Ross Perot, and Walter Mondale on "Saturday Night Live" 1975.Formerly worked as a busboy at a Holiday Inn.Underwent open-heart surgery for a blocked artery in 1997 but had the wrong artery operated on. Later sued for medical malpractice and was awarded 7.5 million dollars. He’s had to undergo five operations in total to correct his heart problem.Dana is of Irish and Italian heritage, his mother’s family is from Dublin and his father’s family is from Rome.Also a very talented drummerBiography in: “Who’s Who in Comedy” by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 98-99. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387From the same hometown as David Lynch.His older brother Mark Carvey was his assistant on Wayne's World 2 1993.David Letterman publicly suggested Carvey as his replacement on "Late Show with David Letterman" 1993 after he left for CBS.Attended Carlmont High School in Belmont, CA.Holds the record for having said “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night” most often.Appeared on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" 1999/I in 2000 and won 32,000 for his charity.Is a fan of the band The Village People.Living in Southern California with wife Paula, he fills his house with grown-up toys, likes to shoot baskets and play guitar and drums.Dana’s brother Brad is an engineer and a pioneer in the video production field. He developed “Video Toaster”, an inexpensive setup for Hollywood quality video making. The character “Garth” from Wayne's World 1992 is based on Dana’s brother.

As the Church Lady: “Well, isn’t that special”My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own. Ching Change, the Church Lady and Hans have a meter and pitch that are distinctly their own.I used to sneak up to the 8th floor at NBC and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing Saturday Night Live and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human. While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

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Dana Thomas Carvey was born on June 2, 1955 in Missoula, Montana to a Bud and Billie Carvey. Dana got his name because his parents were hoping for a girl, that they were going to name Dana and they got a boy so they named him Dana anyway. Dana has three brothers and one sister. He is the youngest brother out of his family. His other brothers and sister are named Scott Carvey, Mark Carvey, Brad Carvey and Lori Carvey. His sister is the youngest.When Dana was three years old, he moved to San Francisco. It was the year 1958. Dana was funny at an early age. While living in California, he watched a lot of Jimmy Stewart and Johnny Carsen. He also liked the Beatles. He was watching the Beatles on tv and he had a real knack for doing the voice of Paul McCartney. He cracked up his family with his funny voices. From a very young age Dana was multitalented musically probably with a little help from his mother who was a musicion. His father was a high school teacher When he was twelve he recived a drum kit and things went on from there. Dana graduated from Carlmount High School in 1973 where he participated in school plays and was a runner on the track team, Dana began to proform stand up comedy in the San Fransisco bay area. He won the San Fransisco stand up compitition in ‘77 after he graduated from San Fransisco State University with a degree in communications. Some of his inspiration for his comedy came from the stand up of Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, and Carol Brunette. In the late 70’s, Dana moved to Los Angeles and landed his first role in Halloween II. Although it was a small role, he got lucky. In 1982 Dana was finaly able to quit his job as a busboy when he moved to New York city and landed a role as “Adam Sheilds”, Micky Roony’s grandson and Nathan Lanes room mate in the NBC sitcome “One of the Boys”. Fortunatly for Dana, “One of the Boys” was taped in the same studio as SNL, studio 8-h. This is first where Dana got to see the work of Joe Piscopo, Gilda Radner and Eddie Murphy. This is also where Dana was first introduced to Lorne Michaels, the producer of SNL. Unfortunately, OOTB didnt last very long. It was cancelled after only one season.That very same year, Dana married Paula Zwaggermaninwhich he is still married to. In 1984, Dana landed a role as “Clinton JAFO Wonderlove” which was a tv series of the movie “Blue Thunder”. Fortunatley for Dana, the same year Dana got yet another small role as “Baby Face” in the movie “Racing with the Moon” that starred Elizabeth Mongomery, Sean Penn and Nicholas Cage.In the same year, was a waiter alongside Billy Crystal in the hit comedy “It’s a Spinal Tap”.Things were really lightning up for Dana in 1986 when he had the chance of being on the cast of SNL. The choices came down to him and Jim Carrey. Guess who won Because he won the laughter of the audience with his comedic wit and dead on impersinations, Lorne decided to pick ol’ Dana as a cast member over Jim Carrey. Dana turned out to be a living legend on SNL, one of them, that is. Now that Dana was a famous star, he got more attention from directors. He played Richie Evans in the movie “Tough Guys”, which starred Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster in 1986. During his years on SNL, he created more notable characters, such as the Church Lady ‘the first time I said, ‘Well isn’t that specail’, even I was shocked by the response’, Garth Algar form the hit comedy Wayne’s World with Mike Myers as Wayne, and many more. Also, Dana’s accurate impressions won the love of his fans. Such as George Bush Sr., Johnny Carsen, Jimmy Stewart, H. Ross Perot, Regis Philbin, Neil Young, Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Dennis Miller, Robin Leach and more.

One year later Dana got to play the “Right Ventrical” in the movie “Cranium Command”. The movie was not a huge success but it recieved a lot of good reviews. In 1990 Dana recieved his firsted starring role in the movie ” Oppertunity Knocks” in which Dana portrayed a con man by the name of ” Eddie” but the movie was not a secsess and did not recieve very many good reviews. After the flop of “Oppertunity Knocks “, Dana stuck mainly to stand up when he wasn’t busy dedicating himself to Saturday Night Live. Also, in 1990 Dana won an American Comedy Award for being t.v’s ” Funniest Supporting Male”. Dana won the very same award again in 1991. The movie making was put on hold after the birth of his first son Dex Carvey in 1991. Dex was named after a bottle of Dextrose, which was on the table when Paula and Dana were thinking of a name for their newly-born son. Then in 1992, Mike Myers and Dana teamed up to make the hit comedy, Wayne’s World, then in 1993 they struck back with a Wayne’s World 2. Later on that year, Dana got to host the MTV music awards in which he got to play the drums onstage with the band U2. Also in 1993, Dana celebrated the birth of his second son, Thomas Carvey. The name Thomas came from Dana’s own middle name, Thomas. It was in 1993 that Dana recieved his first Emmy Award for ” Outsanding Individual Performance in a Varitey or Music Program”. Dana has been nominated six times in all for an Emmy. Then, sadly, in 1993, Dana left the cast of SNL. In 1994 Dana got his second starring role as “Maurice L. Puoge” in “Clean Slate” where dana portrayes a police detective with a memory loss problem. The second movie Dana was in was “The Road to Wellville” where he played the son of George Kelloge Anthony Hopkins, the third movie he made in 1994 was “Trapped in Paridise” where he played “Alvin Firpo” along side Jon Lovitz and Nicolas Cage. All those movies did well in the box offices. In 1995 Dana displayed his talent for stand up comedy in the hilarous, one hour HBO special “Critic’s Choice”. That same year, Dana created The Dana Carvey Show which was a funny show, until it was cancelled because he kept on making fun of his producers and it had edgy humor, such as Bill Clinton with nipples and a hens behind. In 1997 while hiking withhis family in San Francisco, Dana began suffering from constant chest pains, On September 25th, Dana was admitted to Marin General Hospital where he recieved an angioplasty for a clogged artery but the chest pains continued. 1998 was a tough year for Dana after a second angioplasty, the death of his close friend Phil Hartman, and a double bypass surgury after the chest pains and the clogged artery failed to disappear. While undergoing a check up, the doctors told him that the surgeon that did his first angioplasty Dana says that they called them ‘Regises’ at the hospital did the wrong artery Exsqueeze me A baking powder. Dana was outraged and waited for an apology from his first surgeon, while he underwent yet ANOTHER ‘Regis’ to fix the problem. The surgeon never apologized so Dana took him to court and sued him for 7.5 million dollars. Dana won the lawsuit and, since he didnt need the money, donated it to the childrens charity. Later that year, Dana was cast as a possesed referee for the Harlem Globe Trotters in SNL alumni Adam Sandler’s new comedy ” Little Nicky “. In 2002, Dana obtained yet another starring role in the childrens comedy “The Master of Disguise” The film is the first of Dana’s the has been written by him and his friend, writer for “Duece Bigalow, Male Jigalo”, Harris Goldberg. “The Master of Desguise”, a Happy Madison production is set to be released August 2, 2002. Dana’s newest film which won’t be in theaters untill 2003, is an animated Dreamworks production called “Tusker”. This film is about a herd of elephants which features the voice’s of some of Hollywoods finest acters such as Morgan Freeman and Jodi Foster. Dana still lives with his wife Paula and two son’s Tom and Dex in San Francisco still preforms his stand up comedy reguraly. It’s also to be rumored that Dana’s Lorne Michaels impression was stolen by Mike Myers and given to the character Dr. Evil in all the Austin Powers films. Dana and Mike are not talking anymore for that reason.

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Actor, comedian. Born on June 2, 1955, in Missoula, Montana. A cast member of Saturday Night Live for a number of years, Dana Carvey is best known for his characters and impersonations of famous figures. He grew up in California and attended San Francisco State University. After college, he started performing stand-up comedy.Moving to Hollywood, Carvey’s first television efforts failed to capitalize on his comedic talents. In the 1982 sitcom One of the Boys, he starred as a college student who invites his grandfather to leave his retirement home to live with him and his roommate. Carvey ended up as the straight man to Mickey Rooney who played his grandfather. The cast also included Meg Ryan as his girlfriend and Nathan Lane as his roommate. Despite the show’s talented performers, it was canceled after nearly eight months on air.Carvey tried his hand at action with the television adaptation of the hit film, Blue Thunder, in 1984. He played a young electronics expert in this short-lived police drama. Taking a break from television, Carvey returned to doing stand-up comedy. It was at a show that he was discovered by Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. He joined the cast of the late-night comedy series in 1986.For seven years, Carvey delighted audiences with such characters as the Church Lady and bodybuilder extraordinaire Hans, part of the Hans and Franz duo. He also excelled at impersonation&mdashtaking on such personalities as President George Bush, Ross Perot, and more. In fact, President George Bush liked Carvey’s version of him so much that he invited Carvey to perform at the White House.One of Carvey’s characters, Garth, made the leap to the big screen in Wayne’s World 1992. Garth was the shaggy heavy-metal sidekick to his friend Wayne played by Mike Myers, and the two appeared together on Wayne’s cable access show. The comedy proved to be a box office hit and led to a sequel Wayne’s World 2 the following year.In 1993, Carvey left Saturday Night Live, and finally won an Emmy Award for his work on the show after four previous nominations. He kept himself busy with a number of film projects. He appeared in Clean Slate 1994, The Road to Wellville 1994, and Trapped in Paradise 1994. He returned to television in 1996 with The Dana Carvey Show. Early on, the show encountered difficulty when it made fun of some of its advertisers, which led them to withdraw their support for the program. The gutsy sketch comedy show lasted less than two months.Carvey faced a personal crisis in the late 1990s. He had heart surgery, but something went wrong. Carvey later sued the surgeon for operating on the wrong artery and had to go through several more surgeries to correct the problem. The suit was settled in 2000 and Carvey said that the funds he received would go to charity.Returning to acting, Carvey appeared in the 2000 Adam Sandler comedy, Little Nicky. He also starred in the 2002 box office flop The Master of Disguise. Since then, Carvey has been keeping a low profile, choosing to focus on his family.Dana Carvey has been married to Paula Zwaggerman since 1985. The couple has two children.&copy 2009 A&ampE Television Networks. All rights reserved.

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