the dana carvey show: c/d?

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old people of ilx, this thread is for you. i watched the dc show when it aired & thought it was the funniest shit id ever seen. catch is i was 10-11 years old & had never been exposed to anything resembling that kind of comedy. so id mostly dismissed it since until i stumbled across this:

"The show's cast included: Dana Carvey, Steve Carell, Bill Chott, Stephen Colbert, Elon Gold, Chris McKinney, Heather Morgan, Peggy Shay, Robert Smigel, and James Stephens. The writing team included many future talents, such as Charlie Kaufman, Louis C.K., Dino Stamatopoulos, Spike Feresten, Colbert, Carell, and Smigel."

was 10 year old me a better judge of comedy than im currently thinking?

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

is this show on dvd?

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

youtube?

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I freaking LOVED this short-lived show.

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://torrentspy.com/torrent/894193/The_Dana_Carvey_Show_1996_Eps_2_6

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted to see it and POOF it was cancelled.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/6886/colbertncarrellmj5.gif

from the "Waiters Nauseated by Food" sketch

― kingfish, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dana%20carvey%20show&search=Search

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have only seen bits on youtube, but what I have seen was great.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

One of my faves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF78Jx15YLY

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

haha i havent watched the nba since possibly that year exactly but thats a great costas takedown

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

"the weather is the only thing the jews dont control"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJh-V2Zd-Y

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

btw kingfish do you have a link to that one?

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH3EEd9RVTo&mode=related&search=

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

omg that's carrell and colbert!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

i've been curious abt this since i heard charlie kaufman worked on it.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Carrell, Colbert, Smigel, Louis C.K., Kaufman...

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

That shit was awesome, but my mom wouldn't let me watch it, so I think the funnies were enhanced by my secret sneaky sinning.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha otm

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

holy crap, i had no idea charlie kauffman wrote for the dana carvey show

i learn something every day with this place

the NBA game prologue thing is awesome as hell

they had a new sponsor every single week, seemingly... i wasnt sure if that was intentional or not

― the sir weeze, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

The best was when the sponsor was Mountain Dew (couldn't find a YouTube on this one) and they compared it to a glass of urine, and called it "liquid sunshine."

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THIS SHOW, IT WAS AWESOME

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

um wow this is in bad taste but wow

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

seach the robert smigel interview where talks about what a terrible idea it was to lead off with the clinton-suckling-pigs sketch

― and what, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

the one with dana carvey and... colbert?? as the new england skinheads always cracked me up

― and what, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

'later on, gonna walk downtown, maybe sucker punch a queer'

or something

― and what, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

the prince charles skit is actually the one i remember the most clearly of them all, that shit ingrained itself on my child brain like worse than episodes of voltron.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

The Dana Carvey Show kind of went through that. Every network wanted Dana at that time, and we went with ABC. A month later, they were sold to Disney. That couldn't have helped. The president breastfeeding was probably the worst decision I've ever been involved in.

O: That was the first thing on the show, wasn't it?

RS: Yeah, it was Louis C.K.'s idea. We had an idea already with Clinton where he was going to start giggling uncontrollably at the potential Republican opposition that year, which was a simple and ingratiating enough way to start a television show, and introduce a Clinton impression. Then Louis suggested this breastfeeding thing. I foolishly got very excited about it, and Louis even said, "You know what's great about this? We'll be able to really draw a line in the sand for people." Like, "Are you with us, or aren't you?" For some insane reason, just a purely naïve moment of thinking about nothing but making myself laugh, I agreed with him. That's like the last thing you want to do. You want to do the opposite. You want to sucker as many people into it as you can early on, and then chip away and hopefully hold on to those people because you've developed trust.

And I was so stupid: I didn't even watch Home Improvement. I should've taken a second to watch five minutes of it. I'd heard about it: I'd heard Tim Allen had done coke and gone to jail, and that Pam Anderson was on the first season. I thought, "This has some sort of adult male demographic going on. That'll work." Then, about five shows into it, after a horrendous ratings drop-off, with every week getting worse and worse, I finally tuned in to Home Improvement. I was absolutely mortified. Not just for myself, but for the audience to whom I'd subjected The Dana Carvey Show. I watched it and said, "Wow, this is a show that kids stay up to watch with their parents. That's why it's a hit, because parents and kids can watch it together." And then they look at our show. In fairness, we wanted a parental warning. I'm all in favor of information. Back when Frank Zappa was mocking Tipper Gore, I never saw any problem in providing information for parents. Dana was a parent—I wasn't at the time—and we went to ABC and tried to get one, and they wouldn't let us do it because they said the advertising rates would drop. We asked them, "Can't we have it? NYPD Blue is right after us. That's a big hit." They said, "Yeah, it's a big hit, but it would be a hell of a lot better and make a lot more money if we didn't have that warning. So you're not going to have it."

― and what, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

And I was so stupid: I didn't even watch Home Improvement. I should've taken a second to watch five minutes of it. I'd heard about it: I'd heard Tim Allen had done coke and gone to jail, and that Pam Anderson was on the first season. I thought, "This has some sort of adult male demographic going on. That'll work."

hahahhaaahaha

― and what, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

drawing a line in the sand for people is usually a very bad idea

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

You want to sucker as many people into it as you can early on, and then chip away and hopefully hold on to those people because you've developed trust.

^^^ this is my theory about relationships

― and what, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgvaskaXhiw&mode=related&search=

skinheads from maine was is linked upthread somewhere

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

"The Dana Carvey Show" (1996) TV Series (unknown episodes)
... aka The Dana Carvey Show Sponsored by Pepsi (USA)
... aka The Diet Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Mountain Dew Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Szechuan Dynasty Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show (USA)

― the sir weeze, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

You want to sucker as many people into it as you can early on, and then chip away and hopefully hold on to those people because you've developed trust.

^^^ this is my theory about relationships

It worked for me.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

the entire series is on hulu btw.

http://www.hulu.com/videos/search?query=The+Dana+Carvey+Show

― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Saturday, 14 March 2009 21:30 (seventeen years ago)

the gentle news skit in ep 3 killed my shit completely, kitten dennis rodman!!

― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Saturday, 14 March 2009 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

nine years pass...

eff Carvey and Lorne (never satire)

https://mashable.com/video/george-hw-bush-dana-carvey-saturday-night-live-montage/#txC.voyljZq8

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:09 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

Aw, nothing like opening up a thread to see some good old Morbs vitriol!

The Hulu doc was great! So many great guys (and Louis) worked on the show:https://www.hulu.com/movie/too-funny-to-fail-the-life-death-of-the-dana-carvey-show-c6c29995-0c40-4442-aed6-156bd11e2d9e

My favorite moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aysryvEymc4

― DJI, Thursday, 20 January 2022 18:55 (four years ago)

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