Dana Carvey knew that her period in “Saturday Night Live” would be reduced thanks to former President Joe Biden.
The “Wayne world” actor was scheduled to spend six weeks in New York City to promote Biden at the request of the Program Main Hancho, Lorne Michaels.
“Lorne is very persuasive,” he tells Page Six in an exclusive interview before imitating Michaels, “” It will be autumn in New York … and then you can tell us that we are loose. “It was like,” Ok, six weeks in New York. “
However, the 69 -year -old actor thought that his return to “SNL” had ended after The disastrous presidential debate of June 27, Biden Against now President Trump, who precipitated him leave the presidential race. Later, former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped forward as a Democratic candidate.
“When that first debate was wrong with President Biden, I turned to my wife and said:” We are not going to New York, “the duration of the debate,” he recalls. “That is absolutely true.”
And Carvey’s premonition came true … to some extent.
The “Masters of Dysffisis” actor came to appear in 10 episodes in Acedide Maya Rudolph, who was going through Harrisand Jim Gaffigan, who assumed the role of governor of Minnesota and Vice President Hopful, Tim Walz.
His supplantation of Biden included a family scratch of the face, an affectation that Carvey calls his “favorite” and small gestures that included collecting “toys in the carpet.”
Carvey, who emphasizes that he likes the people he imitates, tells us that he carefully approached his imponation, such as “threading” a needle to “do it fun but not do it in any sad or cruel way.”
“I am not trying to make political points or leave them,” he explains. “I am trying to find what is fun about them.”
Through his period in “SNL” from 1986 to 1993, Carvey passed through another president: George Hw Bush.
The comedian tells us that Bush, Who died in 2018So much, I loved his impersonation that invited Carvey to the White House after he lost the 1992 presidential elections.
“He calls me from nothing in December to come to Washington, DC,” says Carvey.
“And at that moment, I am a young man. I just said:” Well, where would I stay? “I was already thinking about which hotel or something,” he continued. “Hello, he stopped, I thought I was negotiating.” Well, stay here at the White House with (former First Lady Barbara Bush) and me. “
Carvey has not left “SNL” completely in the past, since currently Co-elbitrion of a podcast with its former co-star David SpadeWhere they share show stories and analyze entertainment holders.
