Dana Carvey Biography

Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey has maintained an illustrious career. Carvey was born 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.
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 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 as Ex-President George Bush H. Ross Perot Jerry Brown David Duke and Bob Dole. He also does impersonations of George Burns Johnny Carson Jimmy Stewart John McLaughlin Mickey Rooney Casey Casem and Regis Philbin.
On television he hosted the 1992 presentation of the MTV Music Awards co-starred in two pilots and was a member of the Showtime special Salute to the Improvisation with Billy Crystal Robin Williams and Robert Klein. In 1995 Dana performed stand-up in his own one hour comedy special on HBO aptly named Critics Choice ****. In 2008 Dana recorded his second solo comedy special for HBO entitled Dana Carvey: Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies.

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