The Dana Carvey Show
The Dana Carvey Show was light years ahead of its time. It only lasted a few episodes, but if you’re a fan of sketch comedy . . .
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6 min readAug 8, 2019
If you like sketch comedy and documentaries, you can do no better than the Hulu documentary Too Funny To Fail — about The Dana Carvey Show that aired on ABC in 1996.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 23 years. Even harder to believe is the caliber of writers and performers that were on the show:
- Dana Carvey (SNL) and Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) were the Executive Producers.
- The head writer was a 29-year-old Louis CK (Disgraced Comedian).
- Writers included Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- Jon Glaser (Inside Amy Schumer)
- Dino Stamatopoulos (Mr. Show with Bob and David)
- Spike Feresten (Seinfeld)
- Robert Carlock (30 Rock).
The show also included some other writers and performers. BUT of particular note would be the two Steve’s picked from SCTV — Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell.
How’s that for comedy pedigree?
