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Dana Carvey Thought His ‘SNL’ Joe Biden Impersonation Was Finished After Disastrous Debate
New York Post ^ | April 19, 2025 | Nicki Gostin

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: danacarvey; joebiden; snl

1 posted on 04/23/2025 12:25:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Is this now, or was this in the past ?


2 posted on 04/23/2025 12:28:32 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


3 posted on 04/23/2025 12:33:06 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: nickcarraway
Bere he is doing a versiin of Mitch McConnell:


4 posted on 04/23/2025 12:33:32 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: nickcarraway

Tom shill us quit after that


5 posted on 04/23/2025 12:34:01 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: George from New England

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.


6 posted on 04/23/2025 12:35:28 PM PDT by mmichaels1970 ( )
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7 posted on 04/23/2025 12:37:03 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: George from New England

My bad..the article is dated four days ago...but current.


8 posted on 04/23/2025 12:37:21 PM PDT by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: nickcarraway

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.


9 posted on 04/23/2025 1:43:50 PM PDT by Smittie (Just li <p>ke an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: nickcarraway
Carvey has a great story of how he was invited to stay overnight at the George H.W. Bush White House.

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."

BarbaraBushGeorgeWashington

10 posted on 04/23/2025 7:02:42 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've eluded the snares of aquired wisdom.)
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