Dana Carvey

Dana Carvey Description

• Comedy: Stand-up, impressions.
• Comedy albums / DVDs: "Dana Carvey: Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies" and ""Dana Carvey: Critics' Choice."
• TV appearances: "One of the Boys," "Blue Thunder," "Saturday Night Live," "The Larry Sanders Show," "The Dana Carvey Show," "Just Shoot Me!" "LateLine" and "The Fairly OddParents."
• Movie appearances: "Halloween II," "This Is Spinal Tap," "Racing with the Moon," "Tough Guys," "Moving," "Opportunity Knocks," "Wayne's World," "Wayne's World 2," "Clean Slate," "The Road to Wellville," "Trapped in Paradise," "The Shot," "Little Nicky," "The Master of Disguise" and "Jack & Jill."
• Awards: 1993 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, 1990 and 1991 American Comedy Award as Television's Funniest Supporting Male
• Of note: Carvey has impersonated celebrities and dignitaries from Woody Allen to Luke Perry. In a primetime special before the 1992 U.S. presidential election, he played both George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot in a three-way debate with Phil Hartman's Bill Clinton.
• Audience: Fans of stand-up and impression comedy and especially of Carvey's work in movies and on SNL
• Venue: Showroom

Comedian Dana Carvey is more than just a funny man -- he's also a master impressionist and an Emmy award winner. His character Garth, created for "Saturday Night Live," made the jump to the silver screen in 1992, with the perennial comic hit "Wayne's World."

Carvey continues to perform both as a stand-up comedian and as some of his best-known characters. In 2008, he appeared at the MTV Movie Awards as the character Garth alongside host Mike Myers for a "Wayne's World" sketch. That same year he filmed his second HBO stand-up special, "Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies." The special was his first in 13 years.

In 2010, he appeared with other "SNL" current and former president impersonators in the sketch comedy "Funny or Die." More recently, he was featured in the 2011 Adam Sandler comedy "Jack & Jill," in which he made a cameo appearance in the role of a crazy puppeteer.