Dana Carvey is out with a new HULU documentary about his failed 1990s ABC show:
The former ‘Saturday Night Live’ all-star looks back on his failed primetime sketch show and assesses Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump….
And this from the reporting in the DAILY BEAST:
As we learn in the documentary, directed by Josh Greenbaum, The Dana Carvey Show was primarily a victim of circumstance. With ABC’s cloyingly sentimental Home Improvement as its mismatched lead-in, brilliantly experimental sketches like “Germans Who Say Nice Things” and “Waiters Who Are Nauseated by Food” didn’t stand a chance. Against the advice of everyone involved, Louis C.K. insisted on opening the first episode with an infamous scene in which Carvey, as Bill Clinton, grotesquely breastfeeds a bunch of puppies and kittens.
Like so many canceled-too-soon comedies, The Dana Carvey Show was just starting to find its groove when ABC pulled the plug. Instead of airing what would have been the eighth and final episode, the network added insult to injury by showing a rerun of Coach. The unaired episode, now available with the rest of the season on Hulu, contains a sketch that Carvey still views as “one of the favorite things” he’s ever been involved in.
Ahead of its time… TOO FUNNY TO FAIL, indeed.
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