the dana carvey show: c/d?

is this show on dvd?

youtube?

I freaking LOVED this short-lived show.

I wanted to see it and POOF it was cancelled.

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/6886/colbertncarrellmj5.gif

from the "Waiters Nauseated by Food" sketch

I have only seen bits on youtube, but what I have seen was great.

One of my faves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF78Jx15YLY

haha i havent watched the nba since possibly that year exactly but thats a great costas takedown

"the weather is the only thing the jews dont control"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJh-V2Zd-Y

btw kingfish do you have a link to that one?

omg that's carrell and colbert!

i've been curious abt this since i heard charlie kaufman worked on it.

Carrell, Colbert, Smigel, Louis C.K., Kaufman...

That shit was awesome, but my mom wouldn't let me watch it, so I think the funnies were enhanced by my secret sneaky sinning.

haha otm

holy crap, i had no idea charlie kauffman wrote for the dana carvey show

i learn something every day with this place

the NBA game prologue thing is awesome as hell

they had a new sponsor every single week, seemingly... i wasnt sure if that was intentional or not

The best was when the sponsor was Mountain Dew (couldn't find a YouTube on this one) and they compared it to a glass of urine, and called it "liquid sunshine."

I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THIS SHOW, IT WAS AWESOME

um wow this is in bad taste but wow

seach the robert smigel interview where talks about what a terrible idea it was to lead off with the clinton-suckling-pigs sketch

the one with dana carvey and... colbert?? as the new england skinheads always cracked me up

'later on, gonna walk downtown, maybe sucker punch a queer'

or something

the prince charles skit is actually the one i remember the most clearly of them all, that shit ingrained itself on my child brain like worse than episodes of voltron.

The Dana Carvey Show kind of went through that. Every network wanted Dana at that time, and we went with ABC. A month later, they were sold to Disney. That couldn't have helped. The president breastfeeding was probably the worst decision I've ever been involved in.

O: That was the first thing on the show, wasn't it?

RS: Yeah, it was Louis C.K.'s idea. We had an idea already with Clinton where he was going to start giggling uncontrollably at the potential Republican opposition that year, which was a simple and ingratiating enough way to start a television show, and introduce a Clinton impression. Then Louis suggested this breastfeeding thing. I foolishly got very excited about it, and Louis even said, "You know what's great about this? We'll be able to really draw a line in the sand for people." Like, "Are you with us, or aren't you?" For some insane reason, just a purely naïve moment of thinking about nothing but making myself laugh, I agreed with him. That's like the last thing you want to do. You want to do the opposite. You want to sucker as many people into it as you can early on, and then chip away and hopefully hold on to those people because you've developed trust.

And I was so stupid: I didn't even watch Home Improvement. I should've taken a second to watch five minutes of it. I'd heard about it: I'd heard Tim Allen had done coke and gone to jail, and that Pam Anderson was on the first season. I thought, "This has some sort of adult male demographic going on. That'll work." Then, about five shows into it, after a horrendous ratings drop-off, with every week getting worse and worse, I finally tuned in to Home Improvement. I was absolutely mortified. Not just for myself, but for the audience to whom I'd subjected The Dana Carvey Show. I watched it and said, "Wow, this is a show that kids stay up to watch with their parents. That's why it's a hit, because parents and kids can watch it together." And then they look at our show. In fairness, we wanted a parental warning. I'm all in favor of information. Back when Frank Zappa was mocking Tipper Gore, I never saw any problem in providing information for parents. Dana was a parent—I wasn't at the time—and we went to ABC and tried to get one, and they wouldn't let us do it because they said the advertising rates would drop. We asked them, "Can't we have it? NYPD Blue is right after us. That's a big hit." They said, "Yeah, it's a big hit, but it would be a hell of a lot better and make a lot more money if we didn't have that warning. So you're not going to have it."

And I was so stupid: I didn't even watch Home Improvement. I should've taken a second to watch five minutes of it. I'd heard about it: I'd heard Tim Allen had done coke and gone to jail, and that Pam Anderson was on the first season. I thought, "This has some sort of adult male demographic going on. That'll work."

hahahhaaahaha

drawing a line in the sand for people is usually a very bad idea

You want to sucker as many people into it as you can early on, and then chip away and hopefully hold on to those people because you've developed trust.

^^^ this is my theory about relationships

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgvaskaXhiw&mode=related&search=

skinheads from maine was is linked upthread somewhere

"The Dana Carvey Show" (1996) TV Series (unknown episodes)
... aka The Dana Carvey Show Sponsored by Pepsi (USA)
... aka The Diet Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Mountain Dew Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Szechuan Dynasty Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show (USA)

You want to sucker as many people into it as you can early on, and then chip away and hopefully hold on to those people because you've developed trust.

^^^ this is my theory about relationships

It worked for me.