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Saturday Night Live veteran Dana Carvey, who was known for his impression of President George H.W. Bush on the sketch show, once had an interaction that the late politician didn't find very funny. "So I'm in the White House having dinner, my wife and I, with George senior, the president of the United States at the time, and his wife Barbara," Carvey recalled on a recent episode of his podcast, Superfly, cohosted by David Spade. "And the dog, Ranger, kept coming around looking for food. So I was kinda sneaking some food to the dog." "And then at one point...

Dana Carvey plays a perfect Joe Biden last night on SNL.

Comedian Dana Carvey understands why comedians initially tread carefully when joking about President Barack Obama, the nation's first black Commander in Chief. What the former Saturday Night Live standout can't fathom is why fellow comic Dennis Miller got taken to the pop culture woodshed for embracing conservatism. Carvey expounded on his career, political humor and the host of radio's syndicated program The Dennis Miller Show during a wide-ranging chat with Carl Kozlowski's Radio Titans podcast Kozversations. The pair addressed the current state of political comedy, with Carvey sharing how he views his role as a stand-up and social commentator. In...

The Arab world is all one big happy family again. OK, dysfunctional, but happy. No, well, unhappy and as twisted as usual. While visiting Kuwait today, Palestinian presidential front-runner, Mahmoud Abbas, apologized for his people’s support of Saddam’s invasion of the Gulf emirate in 1990. Isn’t that special? (remember Dana Carvey as the “Church Lady” on SNL?). This happened just after Kuwait’s sultans (or whatever they’re called) forgave the Palestinian people for supporting Saddam’s invasion. Kuwait’s leadership went so far as to say they didn’t even expect a public apology for Palestinian support of the 1990 war. Now, isn’t that...

Dana Carvey Sees Schwarzenegger Pumping Up California Thu August 7, 2003 11:16 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Comedian Dana Carvey, who for years parodied an Arnold Schwarzenegger-like bodybuilder, gave the real-life former Mr. Universe his vote of confidence on Thursday as he entered California politics. "Arnold could flick Gray Davis with his little finger and he would fly across the room and he would land in his own baby poop," Carvey told Reuters in the thick, faux Austrian accent that was a staple of his Hans and Franz skits on the NBC television show "Saturday Night Live." Republican Schwarzenegger...