“This would not be called Disney-friendly television,” added Harbert. That became especially problematic when Disney bought ABC shortly before the program began airing. ![]() ![]() We got to show people we’re bold, not the same old show they’ve seen all the time, we’ve got to make noise.” The same-old, same-old thing was just getting tough,” said Harbert. “It was a time where situation comedy was starting to feel a little soft on networks. Phil Hartman and Dana Carvey in episode three of "The Dana Carvey Show." ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via GettyĬarvey had just become a father and a daily talk show seemed too demanding, so he launched a weekly sketch show on ABC that aired after the network’s most popular program, “Home Improvement.” Ted Harbert, then-chairman of ABC Entertainment, appears frequently in the documentary, stressing how he wanted Carvey to push the limits, but that he had no idea how far they would go. “I almost had too much heat on me,” said Carvey. When he retired from the show in 1993, after appearing in two blockbuster "Wayne's World" films, the news made the cover of Rolling Stone and he was offered David Letterman’s late night time slot. He joined the cast of “Saturday Night Life” in 1986. Raised in San Carlos and reportedly still a resident of Marin County, one of Carvey’s earliest comedic successes came when he won the 1977 San Francisco Comedy Competition while a student at San Francisco State University. ![]() The Hulu film, which premiered in 2017 but has resurfaced in their documentary section perhaps because of Carvey’s viral Joe Biden impression, chronicles the seven episode lifespan of Dana Carvey’s doomed sketch comedy show.
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