Dana Carvey recently paid a visit to Studio 8H, where he reminisced about one of his most infamous celebrity impressions from his Saturday Night Live days.
On the NBC sketch comedy show’s new companion web series The Rundown, the Emmy winner recalled how he first developed his impersonation of the show’s creator Lorne Michaels.
“When I look at this, my first reaction is terror, like I’m literally frightened,” he said on the latest episode while standing in front of the show’s rundown board.
“The way I learned to do Lorne Michaels, would be after the read-through on Wednesday, and we had a ton of sketches we just read, 50 of them,” recalled Carvey. “And then, Lorne would try to put them on the rundown for the show, very frustrated. And he said, ‘Um, I still have no f*cking first act.’”
In 2016, Carvey recounted the same story, addressing rumors that he and Mike Myers had a falling out because the latter stole his impression of Michaels for Myers’ performance as his Austin Powers villain Dr. Evil. The pair has since made amends.
After his seven-season run from 1986 to 1993, Carvey returned to SNL in 2024 to play President Joe Biden leading up to Election Day, along with Maya Rudolph as Vice President Kamala Harris, Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff and Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz.
