It's a really funny affectation, because it's so specific," Carvey told Howard Stern. Or, according to Carvey, they more specifically mirrored Carvey's impression of Michaels, which he'd do around the offices of SNL. Evil (played by Myers) was a parody of various James Bond villains, but his mannerisms closely reflected those of SNL creator Lorne Michaels. Both Myers and Carvey left SNL soon thereafter, and were fine.until Myers wrote and starred in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery in 1997. I'm grateful that he did."Ĭarvey based the shy, quirky Garth on his own brother, and the sketch became so popular that it spawned a Wayne's World movie in 1992, and a sequel in 1993. "We were never meant to be a comedy team," Carvey said. The show's writers helped him develop the character, and the sketch evolved into a mock cable access show hosted by Myers as Wayne and Carvey as Wayne's best friend, Garth. Mike Myers brought the character of metalhead TV host Wayne Campbell to Saturday Night Live when he joined the cast in 1989. It's emotionally intense to be on TV that much." It took him a year to decide, but eventually Carvey decided to not do Late Night, because hosting a show every night is "a big slog.It's a big decision to take that on and spend years in this box, basically. NBC thought it was such a lock that they gave him $1 million (and a Beatles album signed by all four Beatles worth $400,000) just to consider the offer-and it landed him on the cover of TV Guide as Letterman's heir apparent. Carvey, amiable, versatile, and one of the most popular cast members in years, was offered the job. NBC tasked SNL creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels with finding a host, and he looked to his SNL cast. Late Night host David Letterman was so miffed that he jumped over to CBS to go head-to-head with The Tonight Show, leaving Late Night open. In the early '90s, Johnny Carson made the decision to retire from The Tonight Show after 30 years, and Jay Leno got the job as new host. He could've been a player on late night TV, and might still be hosting a show on network TV to this day.except he didn't want to. (Dex and Tom Carvey are now both in their 20s, and are both pursuing careers in comedy, just like their dad.) Carvey took those two incidents as cues to focus on his family full-time and moved his wife and kids to a " a small town with trees" in northern California, "where we never had to lock our house." In other words, Carvey didn't tend to his career for two full years. I'd sleep a few hours, and then I was trying to entertain one of my sons in the basement by pushing this cart around."ĭuring the filming of Wayne's World 2, one of his sons walked up to him while he was wearing his character Garth's signature long blond wig and said, "Daddy, no funny hair" and then started sobbing. "One son had a lot of ear infections, and the other one got the flu. " It felt weird and awkward to hand the kid to a nanny, so that kind of went out the window," Carvey said, explaining his decision to bring his kids with him to the set of Trapped in Paradise. He didn't want to be away from his two very young sons: Dex, who was two at the time, and Tom, an infant. Carvey sued the original heart surgeon for $7.5 million and settled out of court in 2000.Īfter he left SNL in 1993, Carvey starred in a string of what he calls "awful movies"-including Trapped in Paradise with Nicolas Cage. Carvey had no choice but to repeat the painful and elaborate double bypass surgery.but with a different doctor. Carvey returned to his surgeon to see what was wrong, and tests revealed the doctor had made a terrible mistake: he'd bypassed the wrong artery. Still, the terrible chest pains continued unabated. In 1998, Carvey finally underwent a double bypass-the last and most serious surgical option available to treat the problem. Three angioplasties (in which an artery is kept open by inserting and inflating a tiny balloon) were performed, but after each one, the artery blocked back up. In the '90s, doctors discovered Carvey suffered terrible chest pain related to blood not flowing properly to the heart. Having major surgery, recuperating, and then having major surgery again because the first surgery was botched will definitely sideline a person for awhile-and that's precisely what happened to Dana Carvey.
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