"Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show" (Hulu)

My favorite moment was the Mountain Dew sketch. "What does that look like to you?" Tremendous.

 

"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. America - thank you for welcoming us into your living room....uh - hey, where ya goin'...we haven't even gotten to the kitties nursing part yet...!"

 

This was absolutely riotus. Especially the part where when they show the ad to Stephen Colbert and he laughs himself to tears.

 

The Maine racists bits were hysterical to me. Sad it's still relevant I guess. Too bad people have yet to awaken to the true menace (nobody suspects the Eskimos but just look at the lack of availability of ice cubes).

 

Great show! I watched it when it was originally on. I didn't realize "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" originated on that show.

I have been watching the show on Hulu. I'm just now watching the documentary.

Dana still has it! His Netflix standup show is great! I'm anxious to see what he does next. It would be cool to see what Wayne and Garth are up to, 25+ years later.

 

Just watched the docu, and now spinning through the series. I’d forgotten how much I watched it back then. Grandma the Clown! I thought I dreamt that!

 

Watched this documentary last night - laughed out loud, a lot. I had only the vaguest memories of watching the first episode of The Dana Carvey Show when it first aired (which I recalled little of aside from the infamous lactating-Clinton sketch) but I guess must have watched more than one episode back then because several of the other bits and clips they showed looked familiar and made me go "Oh yeahhhh! That was funny!"

I had no idea that both Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert had been "Carvey" cast members till fairly recently. In this doc, Colbert credits their "Waiters Who are Nauseated By Food" sketch for getting them both their gig with "The Daily Show" a few years later!

Is Hulu streaming the individual episodes of the show too? If so I may have to revisit them.

 

Although Mike Myers has a huge amount of money and is said to be extremely eccentric and difficult to work with. I don't think there's any love lost between Dana Carvey and Mike Nyers -- he talked about how tough it was to work on Wayne's World 2 and how much Myers had been changed by success.

 

They are indeed...and they're even streaming the unaired 8th episode. I watched them all after the documentary, and loved a lot of what I saw. I remember watching the "Clinton teats" intro live in 1996 and thinking, "WTF did I just watch?!" I'm glad I had the opportunity to watch and appreciate the show 20 years on.

"Grandma The Clown" is a treasure. Smigel's Bob Dole would never make it to TV today. "Germans Trying To Say Nice Things" had me in tears. This show would've been a smash on cable 5 or 10 years later.

 

Wayne's World did appear in 2011 in the SNL intro to an episode hosted by Dana Carvey. I'm watching it on Hulu. The monologue was pretty funny. He does a song and dance routine about how his cast was the best, acompanied by John Lovitz .

 

They also appeared in the 40th Anniversary SNL tribute awhile back, so apparently they can at least sit in the same room together. But I think Myers made an awful lot of money very quickly, and that can change a person.

 

The ticket guy looks like a young Louis CK.

 

That's because it IS a young Louis CK.

 

Indeed. He was head writer.

 

I remember the concept of the show but doing the math I was in college when this aired and working a retail job so this would explain why I never saw it when it aired.

Very enjoyable documentary full of lol moments. I believe Dana was on Colbert the other night which reminded me to check this out.

Louie CK with hair blows my mind.

 

I liked the show at the time. I related to the edgy humor. It struck me as America's Monty Python. I can see why it tanked--it just didn't connect with the audience. Wrong network, wrong time, etc.

 

Not funny, therefore failed.

 

Missed the Carvey show completely when it ran. Don't know how but it was a weird period of my life. Anyway, watched this doc last night and it was great. Will search out and watch every episode now. And yes, this segment(as did many) had me laughing out loud. Great stuff.

 

No. Funny as hell, and way too weird for the so called average American. And it was on the wrong network. That's why it failed.

 

The show was shot in NYC- my brother actually worked on it. I went to a taping with a woman I was trying to impress- the show taping lasted over 3 hours because they kept re-shooting one sketch. So much for impressing her!

 

I was a big fan of Dana Carvey (I actually went to see "Opportunity Knocks" on opening night), but I never could get into this show. At the time I felt like he was trying too hard, but in retrospect I probably just wasn't ready to see a different kind of humor from him.