The Dana Carvey Show

Name: The Dana Carvey Show
Genre: Comedy
Released: March 12, 1996
Cast: Dana Carvey, Robert Smigel, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Heather Morgan

METASCORE

No score yet based on 2 Critic Reviews Awaiting 2 more reviews

tbd

USER SCORE

No score yet

tbd

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

tbd	Your Score
tbd	User Score No score yet

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Series Details & Credits

ABC | Release Date: March 12, 1996

Starring: Dana Carvey, Robert Smigel, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Heather Morgan, Elon Gold, Bill Chott, Peggy Shay

Summary: Former Saturday Night Live castmember Dana Carvey returned to television as the host and star of this sketch comedy series. From his days at SNL, Carvey brought some of his impressions and characters to the show. Each week, the show would usually be sponsored by a product of PepsiCo, Inc.
The cast and writers included Robert Smigel, SteveFormer Saturday Night Live castmember Dana Carvey returned to television as the host and star of this sketch comedy series. From his days at SNL, Carvey brought some of his impressions and characters to the show. Each week, the show would usually be sponsored by a product of PepsiCo, Inc.
The cast and writers included Robert Smigel, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Elon Gould, and Spike Feresten. The future SNL animated sketch, the Ambiguously Guy Duo, first appeared on this show.
Though the show had a popular lead-in (Home-Improvement), the show was doomed from the beginning. Also, the first sketch was depicting President Clinton breast-feeding puppies.
The show was a launching pad for Dave Chapelle, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell in their comedy careers.… Expand

Genre(s): Comedy

Recent Episodes

tbd
S1:E8. The Dana Carvey Show
Air Date: unknown
tbd
S1:E8. Season Finale
Air Date: May 7, 1996
tbd
S1:E7. The Dana Carvey Show
Air Date: April 30, 1996

See all Seasons and Episodes

Metascore

tbd

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

Bruce Fretts

Jun 11, 2013

Season 1 Review: The hit-and-miss Carvey maintained a pretty impressive batting average for its first two weeks, thanks in part to a hopped-up pace that didn't allow the stinkier bits to linger too long. But under pressure from sponsors (to tone down the gross humor) and ABC (to keep up the ratings between Home Improvement and NYPD Blue), Carvey has fallen back into old SNL habits. Which means protracted one-joke talk-show-host parodies. Read full review

Tom Gliatto

Jun 26, 2013

Season 1 Review: If Carvey were actually funny and not just dead-on, I guess this would be brilliant. Read full review

User Score

Write a Review

tbd

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

User Reviews

amheretojudge

Jul 24, 2019

What a show! What a time! What a joke! This remains a vital historical event in sketch show history; too bad, it is a tragedy.

The Dana Carvey Show Usually, I mention the creators of a show or a film at first, but this is a special case. The rarity of this show is that it doesn't just stayWhat a show! What a time! What a joke! This remains a vital historical event in sketch show history; too bad, it is a tragedy.

The Dana Carvey Show

Usually, I mention the creators of a show or a film at first, but this is a special case. The rarity of this show is that it doesn't just stay within the boundaries of Dana Carvey and Robert Smigel, the creators. Not that they haven't done a good job, in fact they have done an excellent work. But their premise is based on the fact that the boundaries lie on the horizon that you obviously will never catch. As a result, this outrageous satirical sketch show has to and does go out of boundary. And adding to that, the sensitivity is on a whole new level when these writers go unapologetically after politically incorrect substance- often consider as offensive comedy- and more importantly going consistently against the president of the country along with racial comments, government policies, headline of the news and musical parodies.

Stamping its doom within the first act of the pilot, the show never got an unbiased chance to be checked beyond its absurdity. And is probably the reason why more than two decades later, the show holds up and has grown as one of the raunchiest and smartest sketch shows of its time. The amalgamation of wittiest writers, that later went on excelled at their own field, like Louis CK, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carrell, Charlie Kauffman, Bob Odenkirk, Robert Carlock and Steve O'Donnell, each of their polishing the sketches in first, second and the last act, serves the purpose of jaw dropping humour that fills the room with long gasps as much as it does with rioting laughter.

Another reason why it communicated so powerfully with the audience is the performance of the cast which was of Saturday Night Live scale; of course, because most of them came from that very show. There came a lot of sketch shows besides SNL but one of the main reasons none worked to that scale is the cast and their commitment. And this cast going to this length is why The Dana Carvey Show remains this unique entity that floats in its own space, it is a universe worth exploring.… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

Seasons & Episodes

tbd

Series Overview
Season 1

tbd
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 12, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E8. The Dana Carvey Show
  Air Date: unknown
- tbd
  S1:E8. Season Finale
  Air Date: May 7, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E7. The Dana Carvey Show
  Air Date: April 30, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E6. The Szechuan Dynasty Dana Carvey Show
  Air Date: April 23, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E5. The Pepsi Stuff Dana Carvey Show
  Air Date: April 9, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E4. The Diet Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show
  Air Date: April 2, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E3. The Mountain Dew Dana Carvey Show
  Air Date: March 26, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: March 12, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E2. The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show
  Air Date: March 19, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: March 12, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E1. The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show
  Air Date: March 12, 1996
- tbd
  S1:E1. Episode 1
  Air Date: March 12, 1996