 Former "Saturday Night Live" star. The Church Lady!
Dana Carvey enjoys a close-knit family situation.
He loves kids family and cares for his brothers and sister. Dana Carvey's brother
Brad is an engineer and a pioneer in the video production field. He developed
"Video Toaster", an inexpensive setup for Hollywood quality video making. The
character "Garth" from Wayne's World is based on Dana's brother. Book Dana Carvey www.grabow.biz. Emmy-award winning
comedian Dana Carvey has maintained an illustrious career.
Dana Carvey was born April 2, 1955, in Missoula, Montana.
While a student at San Francisco State University, he won the San Francisco
Stand-Up Comedy Competition. After his graduation (with a degree in communication arts),
he played at numerous clubs in the Bay Area and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career.
A repertory member of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE since the 1986-87 season,
Dana Carvey left in 1992 after seven seasons. Dana Carvey is best known for his
characters the Church Lady; Hans, of the Hans and Franz bodybuilding duo; Garth, Wayne
Campbell's (Mike Myers) "Excellent Co-host" on the immensely popular sketch "Wayne's World,"
and Weekend Update's Grumpy Old Man. In addition to these characters, Dana has received widespread
praise for his uncanny comedic impersonations of such political figures as Ex-President
George Bush, H. Ross Perot, Jerry Brown, David Duke and Bob Dole. He also does impersonations
of George Burns, Johnny Carson, Jimmy Stewart, John McLaughlin, Mickey Rooney, Casey Casem
and Regis Philbin.
On television, he hosted the 1992 presentation of the MTV Music Awards,
costarred in two pilots and was a member of the Showtime special SALUTE TO THE IMPROVISATION,
with Billy Crystal, Robin Williams and Robert Klein. In 1995, Dana performed stand-up in his
own one-hour comedy special on HBO aptly named CRITICS' CHOICE. In 1992, Dana Carvey
appeared in the blockbuster film WAYNE'S WORLD, based on the hit SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE sketch.
The film grossed over $160 million and was produced by SNL creator Lorne Michaels. The
public demanded a sequel, and in 1993, Dana Carvey appeared in WAYNE'S WORLD 2, recreating
his role of Garth, alongside Mike Myers' Wayne. The film was hugely successful. Dana
Carvey's transfer from the small screen to the large screen included roles in Alan Parker's
THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, for Columbia Pictures, Richard and Lili Zanuck's CLEAN SLATE for MGM,
and Twentieth Century Fox's TRAPPED IN PARADISE.
His early film work includes his debut in THIS IS SPINAL TAP, RACING
WITH THE MOON, ONE OF THE GROUP, where he portrayed Mickey Rooney's grandson, BLUE THUNDER
with James Farentino, TOUGH GUYS, with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, and starring in
the comedy OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS. Dana Carvey won an Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding
Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. He has received a total of six Emmy
nominations, one of which was for a guest appearance on HBO's highly acclaimed LARRY SANDERS
SHOW. Also, he was honored with the American Comedy Award as Television's Funniest Supporting
Male in 1990 and 1991.
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