Posted on 04/23/2025 12:25:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dana Carvey knew his stint on “Saturday Night Live” would be cut short thanks to former President Joe Biden.
The “Wayne’s World” actor was slated to spend six weeks in New York City to impersonate Biden at the request of the show’s head honcho, Lorne Michaels.
“Lorne is very persuasive,” he tells Page Six in an exclusive interview before imitating Michaels, “‘It’ll be Autumn in New York … and then afterwards you can tell us to -–- off.’ It was like, ‘OK, six weeks in New York.'”
(Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...
Is this now, or was this in the past ?
I’ve always enjoyed Dana Carvey’s comedy and impressions... his Regis Philbin was hilarious... but sadly the man did a piss-poor job at keeping his kids out of the Hollywood drug scene... with tragic results.
Tom shill us quit after that
The article is dated today...while not exactly specific, I gathered that he figured he wouldn’t be impersonating Biden because Biden would no longer be in the race. But I feel like you could take the meaning a couple different ways.
My bad..the article is dated four days ago...but current.
It’s hard to satirize someone who is braindead to start with because they’ll up the ante and do things even more outrageous. Tom Shillue(?) on Gutfeld had this problem with his impersonation of Biden.
The next morning at breakfast he told Bush the place really IS haunted because he saw the ghost of George Washington down the hall.
"Oh, that was just Barbara. She's such a night owl."
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